What's going on at Remington's ammo plant???

[XxMerlinxX]

For a while they've had ads out saying not to use certain lots of .338 Lapua, but now they're saying that they put .357 Magnum rounds in boxes of .38 Special +P boxes. I know they haven't always made the greatest ammunition, but I don't remember their QC ever being this bad.

 

[ORD]

Re: What's going on at Remington's ammo plant???

Its been bad for a LONG time and one of many reasons I won't use Remington factory ammo. I had awful troubles with Remington back in the mid-to-late 90's when I wasn't able to reload (or at least reload as much as I was shooting). Extra powder/charges, overpressure, bullets loose enough to pull them out of cases by hand, wild variations in powder charges and OAL leading to poor accuracy/repeatability, etc., etc. Hell, I've opened boxes of Remington Wally-world special ammo in the past where powder dumped out of the box because some rounds were missing primers altogether.

QC, like common sense...ain't so common any longer!

 

[Yakface]

Re: What's going on at Remington's ammo plant???

I just bought a bag of remington 375 h&h and a bag of remingiton 7x57 brass. Both bags had the cases shorter than the minimum/trim to length. Some of the mouths were deformed or melted looking on the 7x57. Makes me wonder if they don't sub contract that stuff out.

 

[Magstang1]

Re: What's going on at Remington's ammo plant???

I had a .223 with a dud primer the other day.

A bit unrelated, but still a Remington ammunition failure.

 

[insight3b]

Re: What's going on at Remington's ammo plant???

I bought some of the UMC value packs of .45 acp 230gr FMJ because I needed ammo for an upcoming match and ran out of time to reload. I took some the range with me to practice with and my 1911's slide wouldn't lock into battery. I disassembled and cleaned the weapon while there but still had problems. Took it to the house and realized there wasn't enough crimp applied. 700 pulls of the handle later running them into the seater/crimp die and it was good to go. Should have never happened though