This happened to a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago. Hunting moose on an exceptionally cold morning (-30C). Came across a young bull feeding less than 100 yd away. Got that maddening 'click' on a half dozen rounds before he remembered that he had a couple of extra rounds in his pocket. Tried the first of those and bang. Moose down. Not sure what brand factory ammo he was using.
Unusually bad luck with Remington ammo.
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BattleRife
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This is an internet pet peeve of mine. FTF is routinely used to mean "Failure To Fire" or "Failure To Feed" but people seem to think I'm a f#$%ing mind reader and even though they want me to take several minutes of my time to troubleshoot their problems, they won't take the four seconds necessary to define what FTF means. FTE ("Failure To Extract" or "Failure To Eject"?) is the same issue.
Not so much a problem in this case, the context makes it pretty clear what the meaning is. But I often want to give the rest of the internet a smack upside the head over this issue.
Agreed. My one and only misfire due to no powder in a reload was a .30-06. The bullet was crimped and it didn't budge, and there was no "pop", but when I pulled the bullet the primer had clearly gone off.
Cranky Pants
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I gave up on their ammo, consistently worst accuracy, lots of misfires with .22 but none with centerfire. Its not cheaper than any other brand so my money goes elsewhere. Hell, even the Russian and Chinese stuff always goes bang!
herpinator45
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Slightly unrelated, but it speaks to the quality; I have not had terrible luck with factory Remington, or Winchester in regards to positive functioning. I had everything go bang.
That being said, I felt terminal performance of the projectiles was lacking when using them on deer and moose. It seems that more than half of the time I had the projectiles separate and break up upon impact even at ranges out to 400 yards. This was all with a .270 Winchester, so it is not as if I was driving projectiles above their designed velocity node for performance.
End result was still meat in the freezer, however I did not feel confident in projectile performance of either the Winchester CPX 2/3 and the Remington Core-Lokt. I have since switched to expanding copper alloy projectiles with improved performance.
That being said, I felt terminal performance of the projectiles was lacking when using them on deer and moose. It seems that more than half of the time I had the projectiles separate and break up upon impact even at ranges out to 400 yards. This was all with a .270 Winchester, so it is not as if I was driving projectiles above their designed velocity node for performance.
End result was still meat in the freezer, however I did not feel confident in projectile performance of either the Winchester CPX 2/3 and the Remington Core-Lokt. I have since switched to expanding copper alloy projectiles with improved performance.
Chargerguy
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I've had this happen with a .303 British that missed getting a powder charge. It made a quiet pop and pushed the bullet into the barrel. The bullet was crimped with a Lee factory crimp die and I was using federal primers. So it can happen. I don't recall if I was using magnum primers at that time. It's quite possible. I was using a spherical powder (-1 grain to compensate for the magnum primer) around that time, so it was very possible it was a magnum primer. The bullet came out easily with a light strike on a cleaning rod.
