Split Case Winchester Ammo

[SHELL SHUCKER]

I've had Winchester white box .223 FMJ that showed splitting in the neck/shoulder area 4 rounds outta 20. Ain't used "white box" stuff ever since. The rifle was a new Savage 11 & had no issues with the chamber or barrel, and it shot that crap ammo tight enough despite the case splitting.

 

[SuperCub]

Ok ok real experience whit fact is biased and unrealist you win i shut up for the rest

I'm not looking to "win" this discussion, just add some balance to what you said.

Look at it this way .... The smallest group I ever shot with a 308 I own was with Remington factory ammo and I have had very good results with R-P brass in another rifle in 257Roberts. If I said that R-P ammo was the most accurate out there and the brass was the best there is, I would be being biased and unrealistic in those statements.

Different ammo gives different results in different rifles.

 

[Mumbles Marble Mouth]

I've had Winchester white box .223 FMJ that showed splitting in the neck/shoulder area 4 rounds outta 20. Ain't used "white box" stuff ever since. The rifle was a new Savage 11 & had no issues with the chamber or barrel, and it shot that crap ammo tight enough despite the case splitting.

Yea that's what this factory Winchester ammo does for me too. I never tried any other factory ammo though it but when I kept getting results like this three shot group, I had no reason to look somewhere else.

Yes. This is 3 shots.

I have a picture of the whole target so people can see the rest I just need to upload it when I'm not so tired and ready to go to bed.

My only tip I can add is I don't aim for the middle of the diamond. I aim for the corner of the diamond. I taught this to one of my friends who both of us were shooting CZ .22 both with fixed x4 scopes although mine is a 455 FS and his a Brno Model 2E. He was shocked when my groups at 50 were as small as his at 25. Then I told him not to aim for the center of the target and aim for a corner of something and then his next group at 50 is as tight as mine.

 

[Lionel]

Mid to late nineties I was hunting with a buddy and he had a dud round from a box of factory ammo. It cost him a deer, and when we got back from the trip he called the ammo maker and got a coupon for a couple of new boxes of ammo for his troubles...

It can't hurt to ask. The worst that will happen is you will be ignored. The best that can happen is...?

I can't remember the brand of ammo that my buddy was using. I could have been from any of the domestic makers. We were using standard cup and core hunting ammo, and this was long before either of us was handloading.

 

[Lead hammer]

I had a split unfired Hornady HMR. They never even responded lol