Of course. I have seen plenty of LC M855 "issues" ranging from squibs to over charged rounds, etc during my days as an Armorer and times I played RSNCO.
The thing that sounded warning bells to me was that it was loose packed in a plastic bag. I just have never seen Federal sell ammo in this fashion, but according to Skintop911 this is a common practice.
Could well have been an OOB, but the fact that as far as we know, pending professional examination by Steve, the damage was limited to the bolt and extractor. This would lead me to think the failure occurred while the bolt was locked up. To me screams double/overcharged ammo. If we had seen more damage to the upper/barrel extension I would be more inclined to agree with the OOB argument. Still though I don't want to venture too far out of my lane here. I was just a US Army Armorer therefore if this had happened to one of my M4s I would have just sent it in for higher level maintenance and requested a replacement M4.



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