Ever have a dud centerfire factory ammo round

1 Fiocchi .357 magnum which didn't surprise me too much. It was some trashy looking stuff.

I've got 2 Federal .40 cal 155 grain Classic JHPs sitting on a shelf in my man cave with great hits on the primer and the bullet still there. Out of the same lot of which I had bought 2000 rounds. The rest of it, about a thousand rounds, is now range-only ammo. I suspect it was a bad lot that had been rejected by some agency somewhere for this reason, and bought and resold by a major online ammo dealer, where I got it.
 
Wow. Lots o' duds out there.

Never in new manufactured ammunition. The Pakistani .303 I've used was pretty bad for no (or slow) ignition. Haven't had any problems with U.S. manufactured rounds.
 
I had two out of one box of winchester white box and it was not from light primer strikes. I was also shooting up some of my dad's ammo that he kept loaded in a gun and the powder must have went bad b/c when i shot i felt gases come back in my face. I unloaded the gun and the bullet was still in the barrel!! I am really glad i didn't shoot a round before I checked.
 
Ive had more than a few FTFs with bulk wolf .223 and 7.62.

I had a box of ultramax .223 reloads where one of the suckers opened up inside my AR (bullet pushed into casing, spilled powder in chamber, receiver and into mag.

I had a box of Remington 12 gauge #2 goose load with 3 rounds that looked very similar to cigarette butts that had been squashed out. The crimped end of the shells were pressed so hard they where shortened and crooked. I sent the 3 shells to Remington, they sent me a voucher for a new box.
 
I got a bad case of Wolf 7.62x39 when they first came out with the "military classic" line. I want to say 10 out of the 1,000 rounds would not fire.

Lots of misfires with the aluminum cased Blazer.

Two squibs from Hornady in my .357... both rounds came out of the same box. I guess even the good names have bad days.
 
Wow. Lots o' duds out there.
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Not sure that's actually true. Keep in mind that this is not a random statistical sample; rather, it is a question specifically asking for reports of duds, asked to a select group of people many of whom have put tens of thousands of rounds through various kinds of guns.

I was actually struck by how few dud rounds are actually being reported considering the means of gathering the anecdotes. (One of my favorite lines is, "The plural of anecdotes is not data.:)) I, for example, reported 3 duds in one box, but that is after shooting various sorts of handguns for 35 years. That is a pretty good manufacturing record by most standards.
 
Remington 9mm Green box 115 gr Lot Number L9MM3.
Picked up 5 cases about 4 years ago at Gander for $7 a box.
So far I have shot about half and had one go "poof" in my Beretta Storm Carbine. Thought it was a squib round and pulled the gun apart thinking I would find a bullet stuck in the barrel.
When I pulled the bolt out of the gun the full round came out with it. The bullet was still in the case. It was then that I noticed the primer was pressed in the primer pocked side ways.
When I pulled the trigger the firing pin struck it hard enough to set it off but the primer hole was covered by the primer cup.
I am a little more careful when I pull rounds out of the box now.:o
 
I had 2 squibs from Remington .45 acp Golden Bullets. Strangely enough they came from 2 differant boxes, purchashed from 2 differant stores over 300 miles appart. there was no powder in the case. The bullet lodged in the barrel of my M&P luckily not far enogh to chamber the next round.
Now I only shoot my own hand loads for the most part. Price being a larger factor than anything else. I do still on occasions use factory ammo to compare my hand loads to, and some steel cased stuff for the ranges that will not let me pick up my own brass. (They can keep the all of the steel ones I shoot.:D)
 
All,

Two squibs in 50+ years of shooting.
One was a .38 special American Eagle, one was a 9mm+P Double Tap, this one tied up the XD 9.
It pays to "check it out" when the gun goes "pop" instead of "bang". Could save yourself and the weapon some maiming injuries.

SatCong
 
TailGator said:
Not sure that's actually true. Keep in mind that this is not a random statistical sample; rather, it is a question specifically asking for reports of duds, asked to a select group of people many of whom have put tens of thousands of rounds through various kinds of guns.
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Very good point. Thanks for putting this in proper perspective for me.

Bob James
 
Last ones I recall are total crap Wolf 7.62.x39 - several duds and half the bullets hitting targets sideways. Then some Barnaul crap 9mm, had a couple FTFs running a training course on Glock 17s. Smells bad too. The latest one I saw today, Fiocchi 9mm FTF'd in a Walther P99.
 
A few, here and there. Only one squib, and the rest were "click"s--no ignition at all.

Statistically insignificant, and far less than I've had with .22LR, where I almost expect 1 of every 100 or so to go "click".
 
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