Range Report Crooked 338 Barnes lrx?

[big_matt_duq]

Has anyone seen crooked tips on the Barnes lrx or Ttsx? I bought 3 boxes of 338 rum 250 gr vor-tx lr ammo and 1/3 of them have crooked tips. Quite a few the brass looks rough for nickel and dark tarnished bullets. Not really confidence inspiring for their long range load...they are in about the nicest cardboard box I have ever seen though. So will the tips make much difference out to say 700 yards?

 

[JMGlasgow]

I've seen the same thing with their 30 caliber 168TTSX. I've stopped using their bullets altogether due to marginal quality control and sporadic accuracy issues with both TTSX and MatchBurner bullets.

 

[big_matt_duq]

So as an update to this, barnes made it good in my opinion. They sent me 3 new boxes to replace what I had. It appears that it is all from the same lot but these look a bit better. Still a few wonky ones that shouldn't make it through qc but I'm happy. It seems like the number of crooked tips is only a few per box compared to 1/3-1/2 before. I have to say thank you to barnes for doing their very best to take care of a customer.

 

[Supersubes]

My .338/210's are pretty bad as well. Seem to shoot fine though.

 

[JGottschall]

Barnes likes to let the customer do there own Quality Control !

 

[waspocrew]

I'll have to keep this in mind as I've thought about picking up a box or two of the 338 RUM to try out. Glad to hear they tried to make it right.