Wrong Bullet in Box, what would you do????

Today, I went out to sight in my rifle a 7mm Remmington Magnum. The first round I chambered wouldn't seat. I tried and tried but it just would not chamber. I tossed it into the Jeep seat and went ahead with the rest of the box.

As I was getting ready to head back to the house I then picked up the bullet and realized it was a different caliber, a 300 Winchester Magnum. If this round would have chambered and I fired it... Well, I wouldn't be sitting here typing now, as you can imagine it would have blown the bolt back into my face and well...

I've tried to call Federal Ammunition and keep getting transfered and blown off. A friend at a gun shop in town was adamant about contacting a lawyer. He said this is serious, not like getting a plastic knife in a sack full of forks.

Okay, what would you do???

 

Contact a lawyer mate that is bloody dangerouse

 

Steve, I have a call put in to one even as I type...

 

I used to live in Anoka Minnesota and worked one summer at Federal Cartridge. It was probably me that put wrong shells in the the wrong box. Of course, that was back in 1988 but those things keep forever.

 

Funny Man, knowing you... you probably did,

 

Even then, I was out to get you...

 

Federal Ammo called me back and they are sending me a free box of rounds. They'll probably all be the wrong ones...

 

Ben,let's hope that their quality control process is improved.The workers in the bullet-making factory should have known better not to put bullets of different calibres in the same box.

You could have blown yourself up,but luckily,your gun was able to reject the bullet as being of the wrong calibre.

Aidan.

 

First off, notice the shoulder length of the 300! There is absolutely no way you were goiing to seat that casing in a 7mm chamber. Impossible.

Now having said that, let me remind you that it's going to end up with you having to prove that the bullet came in the box of ammunition you said it did. Have you come up with that answer yet? The lawyer will charge you (if he takes the case) and you will be left holding the bullet, so to speak. Personally I don't think you stand a chance in .... to make any of that stick. Sorry bones.

 

Hmmm, #1. well it was a factory sealed box and one wouldn't expect a gross error like that, it's not like finding a .45 ACP in a box of .22s, and #2. it hasn't come to that yet. They are too busy blaming each other for the wrong round in the box, Scheels and Federal Ammunition thatg is.

As far as seating the round (partially), that was no problem in my 700 BDL, the diameter was about the same but the length was what saved me.. The bolt just wouldn't completely close. I just suspected a tight fitting round and really JAMMED it in there but no go. The bullet stuck in the barrel, I had to tap it out with a cleaning rod dowel. One thing I've never had happen to me before in almost 40 years of shooting.

 

#1: If the bolt won't close, the firing pin won't drop. The cap won't ignite and you were as safe as if you were living in New York City.

#2: During those years, how many of them were you doing hand-loading of your own ammunition? That is when it gets spooky!

 

I've never hand-loaded any ammunition.

 

I might as well add my thoughts to this.

I agree with Dan here - you were in no danger,it would be absolutely impossible to chamber that round in your rifle.

I am a handgun shooter,not rifle, and I mostly load my own but in 25 years of shooting about 500 rounds a week I have never had to force a factory round into a chamber.
My point is with your experience you probably should have suspected something when it was so hard to load.
Having said that,lawsuits can be unpredictable and firearms issues are kind of sensitive so maybe you have a shot (pun intended).


Bill

 

Well, on a positive note I got pretty good grouping when I finally got hold of some 7 Mag ammo...

 

Nice grouping Ben but I would prefer body shots, bigger target LOL Using teflon coated hollow nose filled with a drop of mercury just for overkill

 

...with a drop of mercury just for overkill...

"Good Lord Steve", you're a sinister rascal...

 

You could allways smear the slug in Garlic as well just in case LOL