Worst box of factory ammo

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I had a box of Winchester .270 that was absolutely terrible. 5 of the 20 rounds could not be fired. 2 rounds had the neck out of spec and you could push the round in all the way but not close the bolt. 2 other rounds wouldn't even load into the chamber, and the other round had the primer too deep and the firing pin couldn't reach it.

Have you had a box of ammo that had an extremely high fail rate of one way or another?
 
Friend had a box of Win .270. Brass showed flattened primers, blew extractor from gun and had VERY sticky extraction. Second gun (M98 Mauser clone) showed same flat primers and stuck brass. STOPPED shooting them asap.
 
A friend of mine had an entire case of some surplus 5.56 ammo; possibly leftover from some Middle Eastern contract (maybe Saudi Arabia). I'm glad this stuff never made to the front lines for any troops to have to depend on because it was horrible. Too many rounds out of spec that wouldn't chamber, bullets loosely seated or terribly canted, numerous misfires, hard primers, duds, etc.
 
Remington 22lr golden bullets.
Many failed to fire even with multiple hits around the rim, inconsistent sounding charges (POW, pop, pftt..) and a couple of near sqibs. While shooting at 25 yards the bullet hit the plywood target backer and bounced off. I can throw rocks harder!

Federal Auto Match
Normally I really like this stuff, but the box I have now has not been equal to the past. Maybe it's just a bad lot.
 
winchester bulk .22 ammo is useless unless you got a sling shot ;) i got a bulk pack and none not one was accurate enough to hit a barn and 50% or more were duds called winchester and was told sorry we cant help.
 
i bought a box of Remingtons once; they were .45ACP JHPs. it took me a year to shoot them through my 1911, because everytime i did, my gun would spit burnt powder, and i'd get it all over my face and hands. it also fouled up my gun pretty badly; i'd have to soak everything in Hoppes overnight, or soak it in Weaponshield right before shooting it. i eventually gave what i had left away to some guy at the range. i've never had factory ammo that bad before.
 
I had some bulk packs of Remington golden bullets 22lr. There was a very high failure to fire rate, like 1 in 20 or more. They all seemed to have a uneven/light primer, would sometimes fire if rechambered.
 
I have some Pakistani 303, but everybody knows that isn't the best. It is good for something. It will show if you are flinching.
I do wonder what factory arsenal was responsible for that stuff and maybe it was made that way due to sabotage?
 
A buddy of mine bought 2 boxes of winchester 270 130 gr ammo to sight in his rifle for deer season. The first day he and another friend tried but couldn't keep it on the paper at 100 yards (every round did fire) they asked me to check it out the next day so I brought my tools expecting a loose scope mount or action screw and some of my reloads in 130 and 150 gr and an extra scope just in case. All screws and rings were tight but zero wandered all over the place couldn't even get it to settle down at 25yards much less 100 with the factory ammo. Tried the 130 reloads much better down to 2 inches or less at 100 yards and the 150's went into a quarter sized hole so I gave him enough to get him thru the season and he gave me the rest of the box of factory. So I took the ammo home and pulled the bullets on rounds that were left most had a grain or 2 difference in the weight of powder and the neck tension went from almost impossible to pull to 1 hit with the inertia puller (collet puller just slipped off the hard ones) and the case length varied a bunch also. Bad stuff glad I reload my own.
 
Had a box of 45 ACP hydra-shocks that had no powder in them. Bought two boxes, one to test for functioning and one to carry. First box had no problems, second box I loaded into a pair of magazines. Carried that ammo for a year then took it to the range one day to burn it up and replace with fresh.

*POP*- sticks bullet in throat. Hammer it out and try again *POP*. Took the rest home and pulled them down. No powder in any of them. Check the two Federal boxes against each other, they were two different lots.

My assumption is the factory press had a powder bridge or something within the charge thrower, causing a quantity of rounds to go uncharged. I load my own personal defense ammo now, at least I know for sure there is powder in them.
 
WWB 9mm.....I didn't have any failures with it, but it was dirty as hell and wasn't accurate worth a damn. I'd much rather reload my ammo than use this junk.
 
I agree with Redneck on the WWB 9mm. Yuk.

During the “ammo shortage” I bought some sealed spam cans of police surplus Lapua .38 special LRN.
Leaded the beejeezers out of three of my revolvers. I was thinking about throwing it off a bridge or something, ended up pulling the bullets and reloading them. I still have a 700 round can in my basement.
 
American ammunition manufacturing quality has been going down for at least 15 years. It has almost hit the bottom now. There used to be a huge difference in quality between U.S. made ammo and imported Soviet bloc ammo. Some of the Soviet stuff is actually better now. I also have not bought any factory ammo for many years but what I see people jamming their guns with at the range almost defies belief. And many of the younger shooters accept this junk as being perfectly normal.
 
One box of Fiocchi .45 Auto, about half of which had bent/deformed/crushed cases. It was this that caused me to quickly inspect each round of ammo before I load it, as one of these bulged rounds got stuck halfway into the chamber. The advice sometimes given with this kind of stoppage - hit the back of the slide to push it into battery - completely failed in this instance, only serving to wedging it in tighter.
 
Remington Golden .22 LR bulk pack. About a 1 in 5 misfire rate.

Also a box of Hornady Critical Defense .380s. Out of a box of 25, 5 would not fire, even with repeated deep primer strikes. Unacceptable for a box of premium ammo, especially one marketed for self-defense.
 
Wow. Some seriously bad experiances here. When I get some fresh HydraShock for my sidearm, I'll mix from two boxes tom see if I can avoid RedNeckDans' predicament!
I still don't carry my reloads, need a chrono and local legal advice. :)
 
PPU 30-06. Just very inaccurate. After shooting, I weighted the cases and noticed a very large spread in weights. Maybe that had something to do with it.
 
My favorite ammo is federal. It's reliable, it's accurate though my guns, and I've never had a jam. I run mostly american eagle and pmc bronze through my middy AR and it's fine.

My bad experiences with ammo:

6 bad rounds with winchester in .270
Consistent jamming and FTF with winchester .22
Same with Remington .22
1 case head separation with Ultramax through my buddy's AR.
 
Glad I shoot mostly old surplus. Most 7.62 types, old or new(russian) usually work. Maybe the russians will start making .270.
 
Many many years ago I god a bad lot of Winchester Wildcat 22. I've never had an issue with a major US mfg in centerfire.
 
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