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A gentleman from Winchester called me back at around lunch. He said he hadn't heard about this before, but he'd like to see the rounds. I'm shipping the rest of the boxes to him, and they're reimbursing me the two boxes.

I talked to one of the guys at McBride's on Monday about this. He thinks the brass might be too long on them. I haven't measured, though. He did tell me to specifically look for "Made in the USA" on the box, and sure enough, they were there.

One of the guys on the other forums pointed out that Winchester is in the middle of moving their production from a plant in Illinois to Mississippi. They might be having QC issues because of this.

I didn't think too much about this until I visited another large gun forum this weekend. One person was using Winchester this weekend with his Remington 700. The ammo made his bolt sticky. Another person was shooting .410 shot and found a slug in the box.

On Friday, I found a problem with two boxes of .45 ACP. I went to the range after work to shoot my carry, a P220 Compact. I emptied out my RBCD rounds and loaded from a 100 round box that I just got from Academy. About 25% of the rounds stuck the magazines if they were fed into the mag as the 3rd round or higher. That is, if I had 2 rounds in the mag, then placed a bad round in, it wouldn't budge to accept a fourth. It would move down about half way, then move no further. I loaded the RBCD rounds with no problems. I went out to my car, remembering I had a nearly full box of 50 round Winchester. This was much better, but still about 5-10% of the rounds were bad. The whole night was like that. I was only able to load 3-4 rounds at a time. The bad rounds fired/fed fine, though. The whole box was also extremely dirty. My thumb and trigger fingers were covered black afterwards.

I got home where I had a box of PMC and Remington UMC. I fed those in and out all night with no problems. I tried the bad Winchesters in another magazine. It stuck there, also. It had been about 2 trips since I cleaned the magazines, so the next day, I cleaned/lubed them and still they stuck.

No idea what was going on, but I'm going to contact Winchester about this. About 80% of the rounds I've fired in my Glock 19 and Sig are Winchester white boxes. I've never had this problem before.