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    What's going on with Winchester?

    A few months ago I bought three boxes of Win PDX1 9mm 124 +P. I loaded my Sigma 9VE and on the first round I racked the slide did not go to battery. I thought WTH and found my slide stuck. I had to get my rubber mallet, go out in my back yard and tapped in the slide til I can pull it open. I looked at the cartridge and noticed something unusual. I went through the boxes and found 4 more like it. It's a good thing it was the first round that stopped me because I don't know what would've happened if I fired it halfway in the mag. KABOOM! I suppose.

    I learned my lesson about trusting factory loads. Each and every round are hand tested in the chamber since then.

    In this pic is the 5 bad next to 2 good. Looks like the wrong bullets put in the 9mm cases.


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    Member JHC's Avatar
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    Report that with lot to Winchester. If they act like Hornady they may want the box and send you replacement ammo. Hornady did that for us with some Leverevolution 45-70.

    I've got a bunch of that PDX1; thanks for the heads up. I'll check them all out. It's pretty good stuff. Barely a flicker of pale orange at night.
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    I sent an email to Winchester and they haven't responded. I did a Google search on the company and found an article about them having a dispute with the members of the union. It seems it's over relocating the company. That made me wonder if it isn't sabotage rather than a goof up. I made posts about my PDX1s on other forums and this guy reported that in his box of Win HPs he found a few NATO FMJs.

    Others reported damaged rounds but I expected that to happen to all makers because of high volume manufacturing.

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    Let's not speculate wildly about what could or couldn't have caused this. Give Winchester an opportunity to address it.

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