Went out shooting today and got quite a surprise as I was loading a Glock magazine. One of the .40 S&W rounds was loaded backwards. It was a factory load from a major American manufacturer. I won't name them for obvious reasons, but I have shot thousands of rounds of their ammo in many different calibers over the years but have never seen this from any manufacturer.
The round is pictured with a properly loaded round from the same box. I always assumed factory ammo would always be good. I guess the exception proves the rule.

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You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

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Anything's possible, I guess...even with today's hi-tech production machinery. Why, just the other day i bought a box of nails and almost half of them had the head of the nail on the wrong end!

I know at least one of those major American manufacturers of .40 S&W FMJ, their product resembling the rounds pictured, actually has some of it produced elsewhere. Did you look at the end flap of the possibly very lightly colored box that particular cartridge came from to determine its origin?

I see something similar to this posted on various firearms forums every other month or so it seems. Backwards bullets, bullets seated too deeply, the odd entirely wrong caliber round in a box of otherwise fine ammo, etc. from all the various manufacturers. Once I realized this wasn't uncommon, I've made sure I closely inspect all ammo I buy, including factory premium stuff, just in case.

That's what you get for shopping at Chumleys House Of Bullets.

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Now That's Bullet Maintenance!

Those nails are for the wall on the other side of the room.

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Age + Treachery = JohnnieB

send the lot # to the manufacturer and you might get a couple of boxes of ammo for the trouble.

Comon missunderstanding, they are not wrongly made.
They are supposed to go to Australia

They are for left handed hammers - got thousands of 'em rusting away in my shop

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Lou

Eh, one made it past the QC guy. One out of as you said, "thousands of rounds". I wouldn't sweat it, just set it aside and chuckle at it now and then.

Yeah, but think of the expansion you'll get when that puppy hits its target!


Bullseye

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I sell a lot of ammo through the store I work at and at gunshows. Over the last few years I've gottten quite a few bad rounds, some I found, some customers discovered. Bullets seated backwards, primers upside down or not there at all. 22 ammo with crushed bullets or mixed loads in a box (such as copper coated hollow points in a box of lead RN target ammo) and plastic 100 count boxes with rounds clearly missing and still sealed! This is stuff coming out of sealed cases and has really left me wondering about quality control. I inspect anything I'm buying for myself extra carefully now.

And I thought I was just being anal by checking every box before checking out.

I found 3 hollow points in a 100 count box of FMJ once (from a "very lightly" colored box purchased at Wal-Mart from a "major manufacturer". I looked them over, determined that they were not upside down, but actual hollow points, and shot them anyway. They worked fine.

We were talking about this topic today during a lull in a range session. Last year during a drill, I ran a couple of rounds into a target and "click". I thought I had a bad round and went rack the slide. The slide wouldn't budge. The S.O. stopped the string. The slide had not gone into complete battery. I had to give the slide a pretty hard yank and the round ejected. When the bullet was seated, it pushed part of the lip of the case out. I check factory rounds now. The offending round now sits in with my handload snafu box.

Let us know how it shoots.

I remember my pop telling me when I was little: "You sacrifice quality for quantity and quantity for quality" The important thing is you are aware enough to catch these things before it causes a problem. 2 thumbs-up you,

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I told you those Glock .40's were dangerous! They should outlaw Glocks or something.

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I hope I copied that right

Anything's possible, I guess...even with today's hi-tech production machinery. Why, just the other day i bought a box of nails and almost half of them had the head of the nail on the wrong end!
Reply With Quote...... Those are for the Back of the house!

MAybe a bit of a drift, but for years Winchester Ranger Law Enforcement Ammunition had a very prominent typo/misspelling on the top of the box.

I received a presentation about our Quality program at work with the word "Quality" misspelled on the front cover.

In '07, a top shooter, Todd Jarrett, in the USPSA pistol match finals had a malfunction in a match.

No flashhole in brand new Hornady 38TJ brass that he reloaded.

There's always a chance that a bad one will end up in the mix,,no matter how good they say the QC is.

Late 1960's-
Ft McClellan, AL.-
Infantry AIT-

We were shooting 'familiarization' with the M-16. (normal issue was the M-14)
I popped the top on a fresh 50cal can of 5.56 ammo from Remington arms and grabbed a bandolier. Two rounds had inverted primers.
A year later, you can be SURE I was checking EVERY round that went into a mag very closely.......

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Lee Jarrett

Check their website for...that round may be part of a contest like the golden Willy Wonka chocolate ticket. Who knows, you might get a tour of the plant or some free ammo...unless of course you misbehave and they stuff you down that chute like that bratty kid from the movie.

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Thirty characters. Exactly...

That's just a simi-jacketed wad-cutter, got mixed in with some FMJ. Ha.
'Proves we should always eyeball every round, especially when the shoothing is for real.