Winchester Issue Warning and Recall Notice on 130 Grain Full Metal Jacket .38 Special
Winchester have issued a recall notice on several lots of their 130 grain Full Metal Jacket .38 Special white box ammunition. This is due to the possibility that they have incorrect powder loadings.
Here’s Winchester’s product recall notice in full:
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Unfortunately, Winchester has a history of really sloppy Quality Control. A few years ago, I ordered a case of 10mm Silvertips from somewhere. It sat around for a year or two as reserve ammo until one day, it was time to open it and put the ammo to use. As I seem to recall, the "case" of 10mm Silvertips was smaller than what you normally think of when talking about a "case" of ammo at 500 or 1000 rounds. It might have been 200 rounds or so. Anyhow, out of that case, at least 20 rds from different boxes were not serviceable due to grossly deformed bullets, over-length cases which would not allow my G-29 to go into battery, and bad bullet seating that deformed the case and/or bullet.
There have also been reports over the years of their excellent T-Series rounds not expanding because machinery that scored or cut the jackets became dull or similar, causing the bullets to act like FMJ.
Winchester has some great ideas and potential, but they really need to get a better QC game in motion.
It's true that QC failed in this case, but most all ammo makers have these notices from time to time, it's certainly not exclusive to Winchester. I use lots of Win. ammo with good results, in life there's always a few flyers. Glad they are very proactive, as Andrew said, it would be wise to sticky this for awhile so all readers see it.