Just finished processing more brass for my 6ARC, to be used in our local bench matches.
At hand are 100pcs or Hornady and 100pcs of Starline. All of which have been loaded and shot in this same gun. The Starline does have at least two more cycles through it.
My process is to deprime first, wet wash, w/o pins next, anneal, FL size, trim, tumble in cob media, load.
As I was processing both of these brands at the same time, I paid closer attention to what I was experiencing and seeing. What I seen to start was at annealing. The Starline brass appeared to discolor more so than the Hornady and also appeared to take more time to change to a red color. Next, the Starline brass sized much more consistently to the same length when using a Hornady comparator. Next, the Starline brass required much less neck trimming than the Hornady. My habit is to trim brass .005" shorter than the max length. Lastly, I noticed that the discoloration on the Hornady brass reduced much greater than on the Starline.
Not sure what all this means, but I found it interesting. To actually compare one next to the other at the same time and see these differences. Now I would be interested to see where Peterson 6ARC brass would line up to these two.
At hand are 100pcs or Hornady and 100pcs of Starline. All of which have been loaded and shot in this same gun. The Starline does have at least two more cycles through it.
My process is to deprime first, wet wash, w/o pins next, anneal, FL size, trim, tumble in cob media, load.
As I was processing both of these brands at the same time, I paid closer attention to what I was experiencing and seeing. What I seen to start was at annealing. The Starline brass appeared to discolor more so than the Hornady and also appeared to take more time to change to a red color. Next, the Starline brass sized much more consistently to the same length when using a Hornady comparator. Next, the Starline brass required much less neck trimming than the Hornady. My habit is to trim brass .005" shorter than the max length. Lastly, I noticed that the discoloration on the Hornady brass reduced much greater than on the Starline.
Not sure what all this means, but I found it interesting. To actually compare one next to the other at the same time and see these differences. Now I would be interested to see where Peterson 6ARC brass would line up to these two.
