Exactly my concern. The multiple 9mm squibs occurred in a Bruce Gray/Jerry Jones practical fundamentals class class, Jerry actually heard the squib and told the shooter to stop - the shooter didn’t recognize what happened. I think we were shooting at 1” squares but a Bill drill could have been ugly.
Personally, I NEVER “mix” ammo in a batch- I always keep the ammo box until depleted, for traceability in case of a *kB!*
I never shoot reloads I haven’t made myself, but I would definitely not toss the factory box on reloads until the associated ammo has been used.
Pretty much this, with regard to 9mm, .380, .38spec, and .45acp. All has worked fine. I cannot comment on the rifle lines.
That said, I still don’t like to mix brands in my ammo cans. If a problem were to ever develop, I’d want to know exactly who made what I was shooting. JMO.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
Fwiw, it’s either get dumped in with the rest or dumped in the trash.
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I'm one of those who stopped buying FM ammo back in 2016, due to their ongoing QC problems. That, and their pricing started getting ridiculous. That and their 147gr at least was horrifically temperature sensitive as the temp dropped; it would keyhole out of my 92G (but not out of my P30L) in indoor ambient temperatures 50F or below.
Experience from several years ago with ~10k rounds or so...
Majority of FM reman (9/223) was fine.
Some case head separations in .223.
A few case failures in 9mm.
Some palpable charge differences in 9mm, I think that was confined to their lowest end range-ammo line.
Experience with CS varied. One was the gold standard of problem response. One was bad and I quit trying.
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