Yesterday I took my hunting rifle and target rifle to the range... both are Remington 700 (BDL and PSS) in .308. With my hunting rifle I was getting the usual 2.00 to 2.75" groups at 200 yards using various factory hunting ammo. With my target rifle I was getting the usual 0.75 to 1.50" groups at same distance using Federal 168gr GMM. When I tried the Winchester 150gr Fail Safe ammo in the hunting rifle my first groups was 6.75" and second groups was 7.50". The first group from the target rifle was 5.75". I took a break and had some lunch and came back an hour later. I tried the Fail Safe ammo again in the hunting rifle and my first group was 7.00".
This ammo was purchased 10+ years ago when Winchester first started selling Fail Safe ammo. I purchased 5 boxes at the time as I was going to go Elk hunting following year. I never made it to the Elk hunt and the ammo was just sitting in the closet all that time. All 5 boxes have same lot number and I fired one or two rounds from each box to make sure. While the ammo is 10+ years old it was never kept cold or hot... boxes still look new.
Has anybody else had accuracy issues with original Winchester Fail Safe ammo?
This ammo was purchased 10+ years ago when Winchester first started selling Fail Safe ammo. I purchased 5 boxes at the time as I was going to go Elk hunting following year. I never made it to the Elk hunt and the ammo was just sitting in the closet all that time. All 5 boxes have same lot number and I fired one or two rounds from each box to make sure. While the ammo is 10+ years old it was never kept cold or hot... boxes still look new.
Has anybody else had accuracy issues with original Winchester Fail Safe ammo?