Faulty 9mm bullet from box

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Hey, I had a faulty bullet with my box of Winchester 115 grain FMJ for 9mm Luger. The top of the shell casing was bent down when the bullet was pushed in at the factory, leaving me with a live round with a gap between the casing and the bullet. Luckily I seen it when I was loading my clip.

It's now locked up in safe storage in the original box. What's the normal protocol for dealing with this situation? Will I get a free bullet or a box of them for it?

Thanks for any considerate replies.
 
Manufacturing issues happen. No biggie - I highly doubt you'll get anything from Winchester.

That's why you should visually inspect every round before loading into the MAGAZINE. ;)
 
Thanks for the quick reply! I wrote to winchester looking for a free handout. :)

Good point on the visual inspection. It would suck to damage a gun or worse for a bullet worth less than 40 cents.
 
Being that the rounds are probably swaged after seating the round would have chambered and fired without an issue... If the flap was out you might have had ejection problems...
 
Yep, flap in. Probably not a big deal, but it's something i'd rather avoid. I'm sure it would have chambered no problem. But i'm not sure on the ballistics of bullets with pressure relieving holes in them.

It sounds like this is a common problem. I wonder what quality control steps are in place at the factories.
 
The barrel holds the pressure.. the pressure curve would be a little wonky , the ballistics would be a little lite because of it... However trajectory at close to intermediate (less then 50 yds) distances would be little affected

the factory would, post loading, check weight and length within tolerances... the primer is checked for existence as well as a seating check in an intermediate stage... cases are pressure checked prior to use...At 5500 - 7000 rounds per hour the machines are pretty reliable....
 
Over the years I have seen many boxes of factory ammo & this is the first I have heard of one like this slipping through quality control.
But things happen I guess.

As already noted above, that's why you should check them as you load the mags. But I think a lot of us assume that factory ammo is fine. Not that we should ever assume anything, especially in this sport.
 
thats nothing I bought a box of UMC .380 automatic for my ppk

I was shooting away 2nd rnd in mag when click this gun NEVER had problems I cleared the unfuired rnd to find it wa a UMC .32 automatic the fireing pin did hit the primer but the case moved in as the chamber was big enough

never heard back from umc....
 
Well I never heard back from Winchester, surprise surprise. I'm hoping the PR people are now doing quality control, but i'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
 
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