Remington ammo ?

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Last night my son brought his CZ 75 over and said it had a fired case stuck in the barrel. We disassembled it, yanked the fired case out with pliers and found a bullet lodged in the barrel just in front of the case. I tapped it out and we didn't see any damage to the barrel. My surmise is that the round had no powder and the bullet was fired by the primer. I've never had an ammo malfunction like this in all these years of shooting. Should I be concerned about the rest of the Remington 9mm hollowpoint ammo we have or is this just one of those rare situations that happen in mass production? Has anyone else had problems with Remington quality?

Clif
 
The only Remington ammo I have any experience with is their Golden Bullet .22LR, and aside from the occasional dud I haven't had any issues with it.
 
Rare, but proceed with caution. I'd check the lot number on the box that round came from and make sure I had a means to remove a stuck round whenever I used that lot. You'll probably never need it, but probably isn't much of a guarantee. It's likely the only round like that, but there have been cases with most manufacturers having let out a bad lot here and there.
 
I've never experienced that type of problem myself, although I have heard
of it happening from time to time. What Remington ammo was it, Golden
Sabre or Rem-UMC, etc? The UMC stuff is not known as front line ammo;
just metal case ball ammo, used for punching holes in paper. I could see
where this might happen, as they load thousands of rounds daily on a
progressive type set-up. It could be that some cartridges slipped by
the automatic powder measure; and were not caught by the QC staff.
I'm glad that your son didn't attempt too fire another round while the
bullet was lodged in the barrel; as this could have proven to be very
dangerous, or resulting in a damaged firearm to say the least. :eek: :(
 
I had a squib in a box of UMCs .40s. The bullet stayed in the case. But, it blew the primer at the firing pin, smoke came out of the ejection port, and the gun jammed. Scared me. I didn't know whether to throw the gun and run or continue pointing it down range. When it quit smoking I had to disassemble the gun because it had jammed so completely that I couldn't manually cycle the action. The only damage was to my confidence in shooting the rest of the ammo. I had bought a case of it.
 
That should never happen. No excuse for it.

Many have said that UMC (if that is what this ammo is) is not front line, but it is Remington. I trust Remington more than a lot of other manufacturers. The ammo works well for me.

If you contact Remington, they would likely want the box of ammo returned to them and would give you a voucher for replacement ammo.
 
Perhaps is SHOULD never happen but there is no such thing as perfection. if you have a human doing it then you have to worry about human error. If it is a machine doing it then you have to worry about the slight glitch. Chances are that when this round was loaded the poweder got hung up and didn't fall into place or the round was slightly out of place on the line and the powder got dumped on the floor. Either way it is a fluke and almost never happens.


The only way to avoid this kind of thing is to weigh every bullet before it is packaged and that is something that would slow down the process far to much.
 
Although I think Remington ammo is not all that good for the price, I haven't ever had a problem with that...I'd be a bit weary of shooting the rest of the box; if you do like others have previously stated, they'll probably send you a new box.
 
Spoonman-----
Can you post a lot # for this Rem ammo? I've got two cases of 9mm and one case of .40 sitting on the shelf. If the lot nos. match yours, I'm not taking any chances.
Thanks
 
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