Anyone ever see a case like this before?

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I bought 200 new 22/250 cases in the mid '90s. This case was one of them. It's been sitting in my cartridge collection box and I haven't looked in there for years. When I seen it I though somebody might find it interesting.

This is why you inspect your brass
 

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No flash hole. I wonder what would happen if you had primed it and tried to fire. That force has to go somewhere.
 
That's typical of the trash Winchester is currently passing off as component brass, along with badly cleft shoulders, split necks, over-sized primer pockets, and so on. One would almost think the component brass is the culled brass from the factory ammo production line. I recently has 36 discards out of 100 .300 Winchester brass, mostly badly cleft shoulders, then after mailing the brass with the original bags, and the bills of sale to the Canadian agent for Winchester, Graywood Sporting Group, I never received a cheque or a replacement bag of brass as I requested. Lesson learned. Lapua, Norma, Nosler, and Previ from now on. The only way to get quality Winchester brass seems to be by purchasing Winchester factory ammo. Even at that, you then you have to contend with the miserable crimp they use, and trimming below it leaves a pretty short neck if you're loading .300 Winchester, or worse, .300 Savage.
 
That is too bad that they are letting things like that pass into the hands of consumers. Even I have optical sorting equipment that I could program to check for that, and I am basically a dude working out of his garage.

With the volume of brass that I deal with I see lots of strange manufacturing defects come through, I see a lot of ammunition that fails to fire and is cleared and the training carries on. Again, that is why I am going the route of high-speed optical inspection vs manual checks.

Good job on picking that up and saving your rifle
 
I saw the same thing on RUAG match ammo that was issued at Bisley in 2010. Every round that failed to fire was documented and removed from the line. The NRA armourer disassembled all rounds that failed to fire and there were several that did not have the flash hole drilled/punched.
 
I gave up on Remington years ago, now Winchester should be added to that list. Thank goodness we have quality European brass available.
 
I knew a shop owner who would have told you: "mmmm..., I think you don't need flash holes in 22-250."

Another one went: "Your brass neck is uneven and too short? You need to trim it!". He didn't have Material Adding Trimmers at hand tho...
 
Had it with rem brass. Found out when i opened the bolt and found the primer blown out. As said above it left a mark on my bolt. I was further scared by winchester large rifle primers
 
Biggest anomaly I've seen with factory purchased components...
A bag of Winchester 243 brass, half were 308 headstamped but all were sized to 243.
Box of Hornady 308 150gr FMJ with 1 lone 9mm 115gr JHP in there.
And Remington seems to have no idea how to center a flash hole, might have 5-10% centered, rest could be anywhere right up to the edge of the flash hole.
 
Boomer said:
That's typical of the trash Winchester is currently passing off as component brass, along with badly cleft shoulders, split necks, over-sized primer pockets, and so on. One would almost think the component brass is the culled brass from the factory ammo production line. I recently has 36 discards out of 100 .300 Winchester brass, mostly badly cleft shoulders, then after mailing the brass with the original bags, and the bills of sale to the Canadian agent for Winchester, Graywood Sporting Group, I never received a cheque or a replacement bag of brass as I requested. Lesson learned. Lapua, Norma, Nosler, and Previ from now on. The only way to get quality Winchester brass seems to be by purchasing Winchester factory ammo. Even at that, you then you have to contend with the miserable crimp they use, and trimming below it leaves a pretty short neck if you're loading .300 Winchester, or worse, .300 Savage.
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Ran into the same problem with a bag of Win 25/06 brass I bought last summer. I had to cull 9 of the bag of 50. I must say that Win offered to take the bag back and refund me my money + shipping. I had prepped the other 41 cases so I just asked for 9 more cases. Never heard from them again. Like you I will stay away from them in the future.
 
hunters home said:
Ran into the same problem with a bag of Win 25/06 brass I bought last summer. I had to cull 9 of the bag of 50. I must say that Win offered to take the bag back and refund me my money + shipping. I had prepped the other 41 cases so I just asked for 9 more cases. Never heard from them again. Like you I will stay away from them in the future.
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You should have just shipped back the 9 bad ones, got your money back, and kept the rest for s&g.
 
I noticed the garbage Winchester brass when they changed to the red/black bags. Can't recall any issues with the blue/white bagged stuff.
 
Prep your brass... full length size new brass, "no primer hole" problem solved... it will either jam the pin up, or the pin will punch a hole...

But that is certainly a conundrum.
 
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