Was it the gun or the ammo?

So today I was firing an LMT MWS308 that is about 5 years old but until today never fired.

I shot 75 rounds of CBC brand M80 ball which was also about 5 years old incidentally, but that is just a side note.

In that time I had 5 to 7 failures to feed.

I was using two brand new just taken out of the bag magaines, one a Knights Armament SR25 20 round magazine, and one 25 round Magpul M3 PMAG.

Both experienced the same problem.

Also, with the bolt home each magazine was a pain to rack back.

So much so, the first round loaded failed to feed getting caught up on the feed lips. I pulled back the bolt again and it went home, but what a PITA!

Same thing when I loaded the PMAG next.

When I reloaded my magazines and racked the weapons both times they went home.

However, during the course of 75 rounds I still had several more failures to feed.

I'm wondering, was it because the weapon was brand new, or was it the ammo?

I know AR style weapons with the bolt home can sometimes be a pain to load on full magazines which is why many people download by 1, but with that many failures to feed which required me perform immediate action drills seems insane.

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Was it the gun or the ammo?