Not me me, because it’s not like baby formula. It’s much more stringent. Bullets that are selected for a load lot come from the same bullet lot. There isn’t a way that a steel jacketed bullet that was made nowhere near the same time as a copper jacketed bullet could get into that lot.
It’s akin to saying different powders were loaded into the same lot so you have all of a sudden just one round loaded with a pistol powder and all the rest with a rifle powder. When you are talking about nitrocellulose products they don’t mess around! And you can thank careless pharmacy employees or Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers for the poor prescriptions
Mr. Diesel,
The phenomenon with Winchester .458 Magnum ammunition boxes containing some rounds loaded with ball powder and some rounds loaded with extruded powder... continued into the 1980s. Majority of those rounds did succeed in downing elephant & other big game. But that does not change the fact that cartridges from the same boxes were sometimes being loaded with different propellants.
I don't doubt what you're saying. That must be the official policy of USA based ammunition manufacturers. And obviously, currently manufactured ammunition is produced to far more stringent standards than ammunition from the 1980s-1990s. But in the past, these problems did exist. And regardless of what you think about my credibility, I doubt that people like Don Heath & Terry Irwin (among others such as the entire Rhodesian & Tanzanian game departments) would also be lying.
This box of Remington ammunition is from 1990. Remington was using Hornady steel jacketed FMJ solids to load their .375 Holland & Holland Magnum ammuni from 1982-1989. It's entirely possible (regardless of how uncommon the phonomenon may appear to be) that during a 1990 run of loading ammunition... Remington was using some projectiles from an old stock of Hornady steel jacketed bullets made before 1989. I'm a hunter, not an industrialist. So I don't know.
It must be borne in mind that Remington was not manufacturing these bullets in-house. They were sourcing them from Hornady (who shifted from copper to steel jackets in 1990). And Remington ceased to load solid ammunition for the .375 Holland & Holland Magnum altogether in 1994. It's entirely possible that Remington did not themselves know that Hornady altered the jacket component of their solids after 1989. It also must be borne in mind that Remington was going through countless financial difficulties during this time, so perhaps things were not always running the way that they were officially supposed to.
I'm sorry that you feel the way that you do. But I have no motivation to start any "Conspiracy Theories". Especially over a box of ammunition which has been discontinued now for roughly 30 years. I shared an observation of mine on an online hunting forum (like I have been doing with all sorts of bullets for the last five years since I've been a member of these forums). There is no need to accuse me of trying to start anything.
I try to be legitimately courteous towards everybody whom I interact with on these forums. And I think that with you, I have been very patient & civilized.
