Crooked 338 Barnes lrx?

[big_matt_duq]

Has anyone seen crooked tips on the Barnes lrx or Ttsx? I bought 3 boxes of 338 rum 250 gr vor-tx lr ammo and 1/3 of them have crooked tips. Quite a few the brass looks rough for nickel and dark tarnished bullets. Not really confidence inspiring for their long range load...they are in about the nicest cardboard box I have ever seen though. So will the tips make much difference out to say 700 yards?

 

[feelinducky]

Post a picture.

 

[adam32]

I have a 338 rum being built right now and that's the ammo I'm planning to shoot...I too would like to see pics. I'm slightly discouraged now!

 

[big_matt_duq]

 

[big_matt_duq]

Its hard to see in the pics but you can really tell rolling them on my reloading bench. It looks like the tips are off center slightly and then the seater die tries to align them true to me.

 

[Deleted member 46119]

You should contact the manufacturer.

The tips are an indication of rough handling in transport or on the shelf.

The tarnish appears to be from acidic oils from someone opening the package and messing with it.

Basically, someone dropped the box. Effed up the ammo. Repackaged it and let dangerous ammo be sold.

 

[big_matt_duq]

The tips were bad in 2 boxes out of 3. In those 2 boxes, about half are not straight. It doesn't seem to have any pattern to it like they were damaged in the box and the cardboard packaging is still fine. To me it looks like a manufacturing of the bullet itself issue. I sorted out the worst and have a box of them. So out of 3 boxes, I got one good box, one ok box, and one with all funky tips. I'm going to call them later today.

 

[atl5029]

I've reloaded some 30 cal 168 TTSX and 8mm 160 TTSX this year. I noticed some tips were off, but not nearly 1/3 of them. As was said, it is likely from rough shipping. Barnes bullets are just piled in a box like most other bullets. I wish they'd put the tipped ones in a divided box like CEB, but that'd likely up their price even more.

I sort out the ones with off center tips and use them for load development and zeroing/practice with that bullet. I haven't seen a big difference at 100 yards at the range, but I imagine it could have more pronounced long range effects

 

[memtb]

Not really surprising...Since they "were" bought out by Remington! memtb

 

[waspocrew]

With the price of that ammo, I'd be talking with them ASAP. I'm interested to hear what they say.

 

[big_matt_duq]

I emailed them yesterday. At $60 a box I am not exactly happy.

 

[LongBomber]

I just had a look at a couple boxes of bullets. 225ttsx and 265lrx, the 225's are a few years old- found one out of 20 that was off a bit. The box of lrx is new- out of the first 20 bullets only three were good. Most had the tip visibly off, and when rolled they have a huge wobble. Pretty disapointing for the LRX..

 

[tim_w]

That many off I doubt is rough handling during shipment as their would be other indications etc To me it looks like an issue during manf and then again in the qc inspection phase.. I can see what you are talking about in the pic. While it does not come out clearly in the pic its noticeable.

These conglomerates are ruining lots of quality for streamlined profits n the companies they goggle up and take over. Bringing a company public is most of the time a death blow to quality. Public companies must have constant profit growth to keep investors happy. There always reaches a saturation point and then they are looking for cuts lower skilled i.e. cheaper labor etc to cut overhead. The smart ones expand into new areas keeping with the same standard of quality and they tend to keep there rep. But those seem far and few between these days.

 

[LongBomber]

I thought I would try some of the LRX today, loaded them up in my 33nos with 75gr of h4831. I just got my 33 back from removing two broken screws and boring the base screws out to 8x40. Mounted up my scope and headed for the range.
Even with the plastic tip noticably off I still shot several 1/2moa groups while perfecting my zero. I didnt get a chance to stretch out the distance, but it seems the tips being crooked doesnt seem to affect the short range accuracy much if any.