Dave McC's post on ammo rotation and an incident last weekend prompted this question. While shooting a round of skeet, another shooter on the squad had a fail to fire. The factory ammo was in good condition with the exception of an apparently dead primer. Several attempts in a couple of guns wouldn't touch this round off.
Thinking back over many thousands of rounds that I've fired I cannot recall having a factory round coming up a dud. I have had two dead primers come up in ammo that I reloaded but that is over many tens of thousands of reloads. I pulled the rounds apart and there was no priming compound in the primer. In all the clay shooting I've done I can only recall one other time when a shooter had a FTF with factory ammo that was in otherwise good condition.
Has it ever happened to you that an apparently good round hasn't fired?
Thinking back over many thousands of rounds that I've fired I cannot recall having a factory round coming up a dud. I have had two dead primers come up in ammo that I reloaded but that is over many tens of thousands of reloads. I pulled the rounds apart and there was no priming compound in the primer. In all the clay shooting I've done I can only recall one other time when a shooter had a FTF with factory ammo that was in otherwise good condition.
Has it ever happened to you that an apparently good round hasn't fired?