Watch out for NIB Winchester ammo

[orygun]

"Something" happened to the damn QC at Win a good couple decades back. At first I was hearing scattered reports of problems with their White Box ammo. I had used this stuff for so long I kept wondering if it was true and kept buying. Then they hit with their version of the steel case stuff for those who did not want the brass. I started buying the 9mm stuff as I had a boat load of 9mm brass and it was about a buck a box cheaper. Then one day at the range I ran into some REALLY bad stuff. First a couple rounds sounded "off". Then couple more would not fire. Then two of them had hang fire's. Felt almost like shooting a flint lock. The primmer would go and you could hear the delay and round fired. At that point I stopped using it. Problem was I had dumped a couple boxes of the stuff in a container to take to the range and had a couple more of the bulk boxes at home. So no way to know if the stuff at the range was the same lot#. So I just tossed the entire load in the trash and that was the last time I bought any Win ammo. Started to rotate out all of it I had at home till it was gone. Sad a Co this old has decided to let the QC slip like this.

This sounds like my experience with Wolf 45ACP. Fortunately I only bought two boxes of that stuff...

 

[Caveman Jim]

No one is perfect. I understand that, I just have the choice to avoid them, no disrespect to them as a whole mistakes happen.. was just crazy to see it back to back.

What may or may not change your outlook on Winchester ammo is how they handle your situation.
Good luck.