Bad Ammo - What Do You do?

[wes-ki-mo]

Not to "whine" but I have seen on the Walmart thread and on the latest about Fed "Match" grade,
that ammo doesn't perform. What does one do?
A friend got a bad lot of Remington bulk and had 12 not go off in the first
40 rounds. Thinking it might be primer strike, I had him shoot
2 mags out of his new (broken in) MKIII Hunter. Same problem.
He asked and I told him to see the store mgr. He got told
it was his problem, now. What to do? Any help guys?

wes-ki-mo

 

[wetidlerjr]

Try it in a revolver. :mrgreen:

 

[CanonLyles]

Or a pump

 

[contender]

Well, We had a few rounds of Winchester ammo that didn't fire,, along with a new factory 38 spl round that the case was buckled when they seated the bullet. (THis was in the factory ammo that we bought for our WOT clinics.) A polite call to Winchester, got me a prepaid UPS shipper,, and then UPS picked it up & Winchester sent me a voucher for some more ammo.
Getting ready to do the same thing with some Remington 22 LR stuff.

 

[sourdough44]

Most any vendor does not want ammo back once it leaves the store. With old,suspect,& bad ammo I usually burn it up in a revolver or bolt/single shot rifle. You can go through the manufacturer if you want.

 

[rugerguy]

yes, it can also be in the "handling:": of the cases of ammo, used to be ,years ago, Remington, ,that came in the plastic boxes, if the case would 'drop' ( or hit hard) the "fulminate}" primer material inside each individual case, would "crack" and if the firing pin struck , right on one of these "cracks" ( or splits) the round would NOT go off, turn the case a few degrees one way or the other ( or as some say rotate 180 degrees) and they would then fire......go figure..as said above when we get "suspect" ammo, we do NOT use it for hunting or any match ( competition) but in other guns, while we'd "plink"...nature of the beast, "stuff happens...."

 

[wes-ki-mo]

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I expect Mel to come up from
Seattle this week. Will let him use my single six while I try some
in one of my 10/22s. One of them loves Rem HP plated stuff and
my "testing" with his ammo, can complain. Should this still persist
then we'll try what contender suggested. Thanks again.

 

[xtratoy]

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