Shoddy Batch?

Dweano

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Saskatchewan
I have a Norinco M14 and up until now I have only shot Norinco copper washed stuff through it, but I was at Canadian Tire the other day and they had Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silvertip 150 grain 308 on sale for 18.99, normally I see this stuff for way more and the ammo looks cool :D I figured there is a rare chance I may go hunting for the first time this year and if not it would be helpful for when the zombies come on December 21st.

So I buy it, come home. Open it up... and it looks like it is a 300 win mag box that says 308 on it. The cartridges are in there styrofoam but from the bottom of the cartridges there is a quarter inch gap to the top of the box. Weird.

I take a cartridge out and check it out...and the bullet comes out! Not crimped at all. I can put it in and take it out with ease. Doesn't even stay in when held upside down.

I checked the other 19 and they are crimped and the primers look fine, but this is my first time buying hunting ammo and it just seemed...substandard. Any thoughts?
 
Send pics of the ammo along with the lot # to winchester. It is a bad batch, which can happen to any mnfr, and they should sort it out.

I have used win ammo to hunt with my M305 and have not run into this before.
 
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