So this is the second time that while shooting my LMT 14.5 I noticed a crap load of smoke issuing out of the side. It happened previously 1 year ago but I was not able to recover the round. That was during an exercise. This time at the range I saw a hit on paper so I new a round exited. The below pictures are of the round in question as well as the following round in the Mag. I cycled 3 times and decided to dump the mag. I checked all function and after another safety check and bore check ran some Remington thru it with no issues. Both times the ammo that caused my issue was Xm193 LC.





above center is problem round, right one is 2nd which I cycled out and left is 3rd which I cycled out. My Mag top was covered in carbon also.
Yes I know use another round, but that's not really an option.

Believe It or not, it gets cleaned to a shine every time. The soot/carbon you see is due to the round failure. I squeezed the trigger, round fired and I got a regular report however at the same time it was white smoke time. Afterwards I cleared x 3 dropped the mag and functioned checked everything as well as checked the bore. Like I wrote, it has happened to me with LC XM193 before. As the pics show the shell casing is damaged at the primer crimp and at the neck. I don't rapid fire but that was about the 4th mag midway thru.

And KBG's?

Thanks just read that, I will be contacting LC to verify batch numbers and validity of recall.

Did the same and called, I have lots of responses with " LC primer failures" from others so far.

i emailed atk corporate for lake city and they told me this and pointed to federals page. im glad they are taking a sample from you. i read several posts from various talking about that ammo and issues. i would still check the gun to be sure cause nobody wants something next to their face to explode in a shower of shrapnel.

"Thank you for your inquiry. There are no current recalls for XM193. The following link provides the most current information regarding consumer product warnings.


http://www.federalpremium.com/whats_new/safety_notice.aspx"

so i hope it turns out is the ammo and not the rifle, i happen to have some of the type of recall on that list .45 i gotta check my boxes now.

Keep us up to date on this. I have a couple cases of this ammo. I have also had issues of the bullet making contact with the lead/rifling of one of my rifles and then causing me to have to pull the charging handle and buttstroke against something at the same time to extract the round.

Yea not a possibility at the end of a stage at a competition or in the middle if the round is a dud. I try to keep the pull in line and not torque to any direction.