What is the WORST factory ammo you have ever fired?

Threemorewishes said:
.22 - Armscor Precison - high percentage of failure to fire in my semi-rifle and pistols.

12 gauge - Canadian Tire field loads made on Winchester hulls. Jammed my Winchester 1300 pump action after every shot. Put any other brand in the mag and it worked flawlessly.
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I've had the same problem with that crappy CT Winchester field load. As has a buddy of mine and a bunch of other guys on the board. I spend the same amount on Federal field loads and they work flawlessly.
 
Winchester Xpert is total crap. It's so soft it won't even feed in my bolt action Mossberg; it just jams. It covered my Single six in lead; there was lead caked around the cylinder and frame. I couldn't even see the rifling! Never again.

Remington Thunderbolts were incredibly dirty and you could feel & hear the difference round to round.
 
Colin said:
...Thunderbolts from Walmart, average 2 FTF per bx of 50, you could tell that they weren't all loaded the same as the report and recoil would vary.
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I too felt the sting of the Thunderbolts - except I was getting about 10 FTF's per box. I was so traumatized by the event (I had bought 2 bricks) that I have a hard time buying any Remington ammo now.

For .22lr I now spend the extra cash and go CCI Mini-Mag :) - I haven't had a FTF yet.
 
Bell in every caliber tried. My cheap father shot a moose with it once and we found one bullet inside the hide on the side the shot came from, he had to shoot it more than once. He started reloading shortly after.
 
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Made in Canada Winchester. Took one box from each of 5 different lots. Pulled the bullets and weighed the powder. The worst box had a 2.1 grain variation, and over the five lots, the variation was 3.5 grains. Powder appeared to be similar to IMR4895.
 
PMC.

CF rifle 3 shot group would always have 2 shots within an inch and one 4 to 5 inches out in the boonies. Thought something was wrong with my rifle until I tried Remington and Federal.

Only tried PMC Scoremaster for .22 LRs. The older blue box stuff work great but there's a wretched smell after every shot. I think they used plastic filings to buffer the powder or something. The more recent black and silver box stuff has at least 1 dud per box and seems inconsistent in size as some rounds are hard to feed.
 
Thunderbolts

G37 said:
I too felt the sting of the Thunderbolts - except I was getting about 10 FTF's per box. I was so traumatized by the event (I had bought 2 bricks) that I have a hard time buying any Remington ammo now.
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Thunderbolts are the only .22's that will feed reliably in my Nork Woodsman clone :)
 
The Greek made Olympic stuff......in 9mm every second primer would pierce, and the 30/06 was loaded like 300 winchester magnum. I fired one enblock out of my M1 and there was a 4ft flame out the muzzle on every round. Figured that can't be good for it.......
I shot 300 rounds of the 9mm into the berm just to make noise and get rid of it. Groups were terrible.
 
Looks like I'm not the only one to get bad results with the Bell stuff.:eek: :eek: :eek:

I guess i should have known better at $4 per 20 on the Epps ammo clearance rack.....:D :D :D :D

Oh well. Still cheap foulers after a cleaning.:D
 
Not a big fan of thunderbolts, but worst so far has been a few boxes of surplus Czech 7.62X25TT. Looked like it had been submerged. Firing the rounds, you couldn't tell if it was going to fire, 1 second hangfire, or misfire.
 
Winchester 9mm 115gr. ball.
At least that's what I paid for, when I opened the box I found mixed brass reloads, some without powder.
That was the last time I shopped at TNT GUNWORKS, REGINA, SK
 
Back in the late 70's or early 80's I purchased some boxes of Chinese made 12 gauge shot shells at CTC. I can't recall the brand name but they were cheap to buy. At a minimum 1 in 5 would misfire. The ducks loved them......junkman
 
Fiocchi USA 9mm ammo, half the box wouldn't fire, each faulty round was tried twice before disposal, primers were properly dented, but did not fire. We pulled a few of the faulty ones, there was powder, flash holes were ok, must have been a bad batch of primers. Worst performance I ever saw from centerfire ammo.

I would have exepected such crappy performance from old C.I.L. or Dominion ammo, not from straight out of the crate factory ammo.
 
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