A customer, who is a cardiac surgeon, brought his Win 70 .416 by to me that had a jammed bolt. He is headed for Africa in two weeks and was checking the regulation. I managed to retract the bolt with four vigorous hits from my palm. The cartridge case exhibited a caved in primer and several indents in the case body. A light down the bore revealed darkness. I used a 12 gauge shotgun rod to drive out the slug which was only 1/4 inch beyond the chamber mouth. Had he tried to chamber and fire another round the outcome would likely not have been good. Six other rounds fired were normal.

Lot number is 3152768. Product number 82624, 400 gr DGS. I hope this prevents an accident.

Bob

No powder? Weigh all rounds would be a good precaution before hunting dangerous game, especially reloads but even it seems factory.

I don't have a 416 Rem but thanks for posting. Could be a nasty surprise in Africa and DG.

That's what I figure. I'm going to weigh the rest. Reported incident to Hornady this morning by email.

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Originally posted by eagle27:
No powder? Weigh all rounds would be a good precaution before hunting dangerous game, especially reloads but even it seems factory.

Seems like Hornady QC is still lacking, 3 years ago I bought some 460 S&W ammo and 4 out of 5 blew the primers out. I would be very reluctant to take Hornady ammo on a hunt.