My friend has a 300bo and I've got a couple 223's we shoot together. Never thought of ammo mix up till this post. Yikes. Thanks for posting this.
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My friend has a 300bo and I've got a couple 223's we shoot together. Never thought of ammo mix up till this post. Yikes. Thanks for posting this.
It looks like dealers are going to have to put factory ammo in a locked case and take it out for inspection by the buyer with the dealer hovering over him. while this will stop sabotage if that is what this case was, it will inconvenience both the customer and the dealer. With killery harping on the 2nd amend. I wouldn't put it passed someone switching ammo even knowing that it might kill someone. Remember that woman that played Willow in CSI? She tweeted someone that she wished all gunowners would die. There are some evil ones out there, be careful.
Ole Jack
"I try to use a different style of magazine for each to minimize the chances of a mistake."
Ive used P-Mags in the BO and steel mags in the .223 from the beginning, because the BO ran flawlessly with them. I wonder how the Teams/SF communities differentiate their mags?
Artful,
Thanks for your post #9. A prime example of, "a picture is worth a thousand words".
Your Welcome smokeywolf
Same can happen with 8mm and 30-06.
Probably someone at the shop had a little show and tell? Picking out one of each to explain and show.. Got distracted along the way and put them back wrong ..
Seen storeclerks do the show and tell plenty of times..
The guy was prolly playing 'donkey kong' on his iPhone while he loaded magazines the night before.
What ever happened to being 'observant' and paying attention to what you are doing?
I think the modern man has the attention span of a goldfish these days!
Yup. I've been one a couple times. Seems like I've lately seen more ammo boxes glued shut to prevent pilfering.Quote:
I think the modern man has the attention span of a goldfish these days!
years ago some idiots we're going into guns galor, probably my favorite gun store of all times and putting live ammo in rifles on the show floor, I don't think they were ever caught but it happened more than once, and I do remeber one case where it was a odd/uncommon caliber like 458 lott that had live ammo inside it. so maybe not your typical run of the mill anti gun moron but I'm not sure. this only roughly corilates with your post, but it was the first thing that popped into my head.
second thing that popped into my head, as there is lots of room was last winter when bought some new winchester super x 30 30 ammo from dunhams , I posted about it then, one round was so bent at the shoulder it would never chamber, another was slightly bent and a few rounds had cracked and very brittle brass. I sent it in and they replaced it, gave me a voucher for another box and a coupon for 50% off winchester gear.
I know it is easy to overlook things, but when one loads a 300 blackout while loading 223, does he think, oh nice a fat one??
I'm the same....How in creation did he not notice this?
Reminds me of a guy that bought a custom Mauser in 7mmRem, a whole box of locomotive killing rounds and brings me both, wanting to do a chamber cast...."Because the bolt won't close...It's not 7mm"
I asked him to show me....he dropped in the round into the breech and tried closing the bolt..."See? It won't Close!"
I took it, pushed round INTO magazine, loaded like butter.
He STILL SWORE up and down it wasn't a 7mm.
45 min and a 80 dollar chamber cast later he finally relents and accepts it's a 7mmRem.
I told him to go and buy another box, because the bent rims on all of his probably won't extract easily.
I should have bought it off of him when he got divorced....It was a nice gun.
I've just got through building a 300BO, don't have ammo for it yet. I'm looking at color coding the mags. My 223 is black with black pmags. the 300 is flat dark earth and I want to color the mags the same. That way if a shtf situation happens it will keep me from doing something stupid while in a hurry to reload.
Ok, first time, now when he was loading the mag, and got to the 300 blackout round, did he think oh nice a fat one?
I get it that anyone can make a mistake, but you would think loading the mag a guy should notice the difference.
If I owned both, I would be more concerned about grabbing a mag loaded with the wrong round than mixing them up at the time of loading.
I do not doubt that it came in a factory box, being it on purpose (entirely possible) or someone checking out the difference and screwing up. It is the reason most stores frown on anyone opening boxes of ammo.
Having been a range officer and instructing newbie's - I've seen people try and load ammo into the wrong end of the cylinder on a revolver (you know from the front) - loaded shells into my Remington 870 base forward and jammed it up real nice - so I have NO doubt a newbie wouldn't even blink at putting a 300 BO in with 223 ammo.
Wow, pretty scary! Saw some non-Weatherby ammo fired in Weatherby rifles and IIRC a 308W fired in a 270W back when I RO'd on a public range. Didn't realize the BO would chamber in a 5.56 but it seems to do so quite easily. It's safe to assume that folks who don't assemble their own ammo (let alone, cast boolits!) don't spend a lot of time looking at their ammo when transferring it from box to mag.
All my 300 BO mags are marked in yellow "300" With extra yellow paint pen in the mag recessions
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