Thx for the info and Intel on Wartak Gatehouse! And yes, you sure do go through a lot on ammo! Makes me jealous
Wartaks the only ammo that I have ever had a squib, much less several, or any other problems with ...period. And I shoot a fair bit myself. Before I started reloading I shot a fair amount of different factory ammo, lots of the FOC reloads, Xmetal and some Wolf. Never ever had a single issue with any of them. In fact reaaallly liked the FOC and Xmetal as found they worked very well for me in my IPSC and 3 Gun matches! Which I can't afford an ammo problem with! At best a squib would sink my stage and possibly the match. And worse case could potentially do me or others harm!
By way of explanation, a year or so back when Wartak was getting a lot of Squib and QC posts on CGN found Nicole Bullock, who worked for Sterling at the time, the manufacturer of Wartak, was making posts on some of the threads, under her CGN handle, Verywellhidden, seemingly to me 'pretending' to be an avaerage Joe CGN poster, either attacking the negative posts on Wartak, or trying to hipe Sterlings products on CGN. Then a couple other 'new' CGN posters, with 2-4 posts, would chime in and seemingly support her or continue to try and hipe the Sterling products. Think one was Big Kitty and other was KarynS ...maybe?
Think several of the threads are still up under their names, but one BIG one, started by Tenda, initially as a Wartak promo, but quickly turned into a Wartak squib / QC thread, in which Verywellhiden (aka Nicole/Sterling) posted her 'attack' / Wartak defense posts was deleted once it started to get some traction!! In later posts verywelhidden eventually did 'come out' as Nicole from Sterling. Found her and above noted two others earlier posts on CGN very sneaky and IMHO they seemed intended to try and manipulate us. After this I just didn't trust them and their ammo. And at the time recalled you had made numerous posts with your 10,000 Wartak round count experience.
Thx again for the clarification Gatehouse and my apologies for bringing your name up. You've always been a stand up CGN'er and have always enjoyed reading your posts and knowledge!!
Edit to add: emmystar was another one of those 'new' 2 post CGN handles that appeared to be Wartak \ Sterling alias's.