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Opened a brand new box of .45 FMJ 230gr just a few min ago, here at the range. Can’t recall where/when I bought it.
Looky what I found about halfway thru it.
 

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neil0311 said:
Yikes, just went through a few hundred rounds of 230 gr WWB in my Mil Spec.

Is it possible they just had the wrong brass cases or were those actually +P in the wrong box?
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Who knows ?
Guy in the next bay suggested it might be a reload and actually correct for this box…but I can’t quite believe they do that.
Anywho, its the first time I’ve run into this. Does make one wonder what I’m really firing in all the other yellow brass ‘
 
I've moved on from most Winchester ammo for a while. Mostly because of irregular performance of their .22 mag ammo.
I always had good results with their .45ACP Silvertips in my P90. I wonder if he round was actually +P or just a mistake of sorted brass. Still, that shouldn't be there.
 
I was at BassPro recently and I was looking at .300blk in Winchester white box and an associate was telling me that white box ammo has been having major QC issues lately and he opened a box of .300blk that was on the shelf to prove his point to me. The box was supposed to be 125gr but there were major inconsistency between the 20 rounds in the box in regards to the bullets of the rounds having an obvious different grain weights (size of projectile) with 125gr mixed with 147gr rounds.

Personally I'm going to stay away from Winchester for now because of this example and other stories I've been hearing lately.
 
A few years ago, I bought a box of 10mm Winchester Silvertips.

Half the headstamps were .357 Sig, not 10mm.

Same case length as the 10mm; no necking, so…obviously, they weren’t .357’s in there by mistake.

Fired just fine. Couldn’t tell the difference from the regular stamped 10mm’s.

Sometimes it’s best to just not overthink it.
 
HansGruber said:
I wouldn’t sweat that.

More than likely that’s a +P case that got mixed in with the standard cases.

I’m willing to put money that if you pulled the bullet and weighed the powder charge, then did the same for one of the others, it would be the same.
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Yeah, guess that’s what the guy a bay over meant.
Not a huge big deal or anything. Just a bit disconcerting to see that silver shining out from all that yellow (my first picture)
 
TidalWave said:
Opened a brand new box of .45 FMJ 230gr just a few min ago, here at the range. Can’t recall where/when I bought it.
Looky what I found about halfway thru it.
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Big Ouch. Is partially why like price tags. Some places do and some don't use tags. Can at least know where purchased from. May think about sticking sales slips in with ammo? - Not that can return ammo to POP's, Place Of Purchase, but can help track down issues with, lots, places and dates for users and ammo mfg's too.
 
Thought about that, Cico… also about pics before n after, included with a (polite) letter to Win. Who knows, maybe they’d offer a coupon or freebie?
But I said Nah, the first 5 mags were fine. I just set the oddity aside.
cico7 said:
I still like the white box Winchester.
Like you if I saw one of these in the mix I would have pulled it out.

I might deconstruct and weigh the powder and bullet.
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TidalWave said:
Thought about that, Cico… also about pics before n after, included with a (polite) letter to Win. Who knows, maybe they’d offer a coupon or freebie?
But I said Nah, the first 5 mags were fine. I just set the oddity aside.
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May want to remember to keep the box, ammo specimen and code to contact Winchester too?
 
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