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October 19, 2012, 05:56 PM | #1 |
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Factory UMC ammo quality issues
Occasionally I do buy factory ammo.
It's a little concerning when you run into stuff like this though, I did not catch this before I fired it, but it sounded different and saw some flame when it was fired.
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October 19, 2012, 07:40 PM | #2 |
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Pobody's nerfect. I've shot thousands of rounds of UMC ammo and never expierenced one failure. But stuff happens and you were just the unlucky one to get that one.
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October 19, 2012, 07:53 PM | #3 |
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Over the years I have seen so many defective UMC cartridges I won't buy it or reload it. Their brass is some of the thinnest I have ever seen. Compared to Federal, Winchester or Starline it's pretty crummy stuff.
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October 22, 2012, 06:37 PM | #4 |
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We use UMC for our practice ammo at the agency I work for. In the last batch of 7500 we had 4 backwards primers and two rounds that wouldn't fire at all. I know it doesn't seem that bad, 6 junk rounds out of 7500, but it's a lot higher than normal. We usually buy in lots of 10k and might have one dud in the bunch.
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October 22, 2012, 06:50 PM | #5 |
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I shoot a lot of UMC and have never had a bad round. Glad no damage was done with yours.
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October 22, 2012, 11:27 PM | #6 |
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Not sure what type of gun that round was fired thru but it looks like a premature ejection & the slide did the damage. Granted that could have been caused by the ammo.
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October 23, 2012, 03:17 AM | #7 | |
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October 23, 2012, 06:58 PM | #8 |
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OK I Understand. If the ammo had the problem before firing, it was definately a QC problem with Remington.
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