I just saw a post on AR where a hunter wounded a buffalo and his PH's double rifle misfired.

I have had misfires with ammo on game. One was a Brenneke slug at Chital deer on a beat shoot in India in the 70's. I have had factory shotgun ammo misfire on ducks.

The strangest was a Winchester factory round in my 358 Win. I was checking some new loads & decided to try the factory ammo on the target & this one would not fire. I ejected it and found the case empty. So I just presumed that I had short stroked the bolt. When I tried to load another round, it wouldn't chamber. I checked the chamber & the bore was blocked! I went home & used a rod to bang out the bullet from the throat. It was actually a factory round with little or no powder & the primer had fired enough to move the projectile into the throat!

I was sighted up on the neigbours dog as he came visiting one morning , eased up on the trigger on my Martini Cadet actioned .218 Bee and heard a slight pop but no bang ...

Appears the reloaded ammo I had picked up at a gunshow in Australia a year before wasnt great on quality control - no powder in that one ...

The Ruger No1 in .220 Swift went bang next morning tho - and the dog never came back ..... The joy of living on the edge of town....

I had a fail to fire on a Factory Winchester 300WSM. Luckily I was at the range with the intent of putting a couple foulers down the barrel before deer/elk season.

I never took it apart to find out what happened.

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Originally posted by muzza:
I was sighted up on the neigbours dog as he came visiting one morning , eased up on the trigger on my Martini Cadet actioned .218 Bee and heard a slight pop but no bang ...

Appears the reloaded ammo I had picked up at a gunshow in Australia a year before wasnt great on quality control - no powder in that one ...

The Ruger No1 in .220 Swift went bang next morning tho - and the dog never came back ..... The joy of living on the edge of town....

AWSOME! jUST WHAT THE ANTI'S ARE LOOKING FOR, KEEP GIVING THEM AMMO.

The ONLY firing failures I've ever experienced have been with FACTORY ammunition.

Some of those failures are understandable, like the weak firing pin on a commecial rifle failing to set off the extra hard primers of military ammunition. But other failures have been related to excessive headspace on factory ammo or defects in the manufacturing process. Ironically, I've experience virtually no failures with the ubiquitous .22 Rimfire, which is made in volumes that boggle the imagination.

Iceman, did you notice where Muzza was from? I don't know about NZ but when I lived in the country in OK and WV, my tolerance for loose running dogs was very close to zero.

Didn't mean to jack this thread. Sorry.

I bought some Win 12 G ammo a couple of years ago with the primer in backwards in 4 cartridges in the packet. Could have added a bit of drama to the day but I was on slow piece of rabbit country at the time and looked as I was loading rather than still scanning for more animals. Check every round out of ther box into my bag now. 12 G is the only factory ammo I buy.

Von Gruff.

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
Iceman, did you notice where Muzza was from? I don't know about NZ but when I lived in the country in OK and WV, my tolerance for loose running dogs was very close to zero.

Didn't mean to jack this thread. Sorry.

I noticed after i spouted off, Those Damn anti-s have got my tolerance at about zero lately! I'll read closer next time.

I did not read that Muzza shot the dog, only scared it away. I see many dogs running deer when I hunt and will not shoot them because I love dogs and have lost too many from hunters shooting them. My dogs would never kill anything and could be let loose in the chicken coop, they just loved to run.
Feral dogs are different and dogs that live at home and are fed and loved usually do not kill animals although a friend has two that kill anything they can catch, but they are fenced in.
I can not pass judgment on a dog that is having fun with no intention of killing anything.
Now a pack that takes down deer has to be killed so you need to determine if one or two dogs are just having a good time or are out to kill.
To hell with the antis, they could care less about killing people for their cause, I trust a dog more, they are smarter.

The failure of a factory shell to go bang, while not all that common, is not a surprise on the trap line. At the Grand I've received a box of compensation shells from Remington, Winchester, and Federal over the years. Only reloaded metallics to fail have been bad primers, and since they are never handled I trust they are duds from the factory. Again, extremely rare but it does happen.

I have had one factory 12 Gauge shell fail to fire... just one

Never had one of my loads fail...yet

Primers - I had a batch of primers that ,with a less than full load, gave very high pressures for 1 in 12 of them ! They were dumped !
My friend had a batch that occassionally had only enough power to push the bullet halfway into the throat of his 44 mag but not enough to ignite the powder !

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
The ONLY firing failures I've ever experienced have been with FACTORY ammunition.

Some of those failures are understandable, like the weak firing pin on a commecial rifle failing to set off the extra hard primers of military ammunition. But other failures have been related to excessive headspace on factory ammo or defects in the manufacturing process. Ironically, I've experience virtually no failures with the ubiquitous .22 Rimfire, which is made in volumes that boggle the imagination.

Same here. I had a 9mm made by Remmington block the barrel in my wife's pistol a few years ago. Factory ammo. Had a similar thing happen with some .308 ammo I bought many years back. Not to say it can't happen to my reloads, but just that it never has.