What the H!

[436]

Just an FYI guys. My son and I were shooting a week ago, he had some of my .223 Rem reloads; 65gr Sierra GK with new Winchester once full length sized brass. When he went to push the round down into the AR magazine the cartridge broke off right at the neck and shoulder junction, pretty much cleanly and evenly all the way around. Personally, with a little over 50 years pulling the press handle I've never seen this type of brass failure, and I thought I'd pretty much seen them all. Cheers.

PS: I'm pretty sure Winchester has a bad batch of annealed brass'..., on the run this case came out of, and of course the bag with the lot number on it was chucked out a long time back.

 

[25WSM]

Yowser. Never had that one happen.
Shep

 

[CVCOBRA1]

From that pic it doesn't look annealed. Even if you still don't have the lot number if Winchester knows there is a problem they should admit it. I'd call or email them anyway.

 

[ARCaveman]

Wow that's a new one.

 

[436]

From that pic it doesn't look annealed. Even if you still don't have the lot number if Winchester knows there is a problem they should admit it. I'd call or email them anyway.

Agree, but... this lot of brass may be as old as two years??? just not sure at this point.

 

[CVCOBRA1]

Agree, but... this lot of brass may be as old as two years??? just not sure at this point.

Then I would pull the bullets, dump the powder and trash the brass. Wouldn't want that in my chamber.

 

[memtb]

Be around longer than I care to admit.....but, that's a new one to me! memtb

 

[ShtrRdy]

I've heard that Winchester brass isn't as good as it use to be but this one is extreme.

 

[Dosh]

That pic adds to the many other issues I've seen in a "surprise" bag of Winchester brass. I've never bought any, but relatives keep bringing it to be loaded. They sure hate returning it to the store.

 

[MagnumManiac]

Saw the same years ago with Winchester blue/white bags in 25-06. It happened to me while sizing once fired cases. The neck was left on the expander button. I annealed the rest and the problem went away, but I had 5 cases that did it out of different 100 count bags.

Cheers.

 

[Mrkdiver]

Well I don't have pictures of it but had that happen with 270 Win. Shoot it and was cracking it the exact same place and leaving it in the chamber. Tried to pull bullets and broke them all off. I annealed the rest and it didn't happen again.

 

[Andrewc]

That unfortunately the reason I've stopped using Winchester brass. I switched to Lapua, Nosler and starline. It may cost a little more, but I get many more firings per piece of brass. So it worth it in the long run.

 

[DUSTY NOGGIN]

anyone who has neck turned Winchester brass knows the major differences at the case mouth

i think winchester doeant have a rejection bin . if they make a cartiges that draws all the way to the neck trim . they bag it and its up to you to sort out ..

if your willing to sort and prep it , it can work .. but buy 2 bags cause your gonna scrap alot of em

i think if you anneal em the rest will be fine

 

[Frank Kalisz]

Scotch tape and send it