HORNADY BRASS

[stacy]

OUT FOR SOME RANGE TIME TODAY SHOOTING MY 6.5 CREEDMOOR AND ON THE 4TH SHOT HAD A TOTAL CASE SEPERATION RITE IN THE CENTER OF THE CASE THIS BRASS HAD BEEN ANNEALED 1 TIME AND WAS ON THE 4TH FIRING THIS WAS SOME OF THE 1ST RUN BRASS U GUYS HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THESE BRASS

 

[Spike A]

I have brass that's on 6-7 times... anneal every other reload and have not had a single crack or primer pocket loosen... I do not run hot loads though

 

[Rsadams]

I was thinking hornady brass was soft.. could be wrong... You have been a member for a long time so I guess asking if you are over resizing the brass is not the answer...

 

[Texas10]

I'll be watching this thread. Got a 6.5 barrel coming and have Hornaday brass that's once fired range pick up.

 

[EBaker]

I could never get a consistent neck tension with Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor brass even with annealing and running an expander mandrel through it after neck sizing. Tossed the whole lot and gave the rest to a friend. Now that Lapua has Creedmoor brass....I might build another.... Yeah..IMHO.....its junk!

 

[stacy]

I was thinking hornady brass was soft.. could be wrong... You have been a member for a long time so I guess asking if you are over resizing the brass is not the answer...

NOT OVER SIZING

 

[stacy]

I could never get a consistent neck tension with Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor brass even with annealing and running an expander mandrel through it after neck sizing. Tossed the whole lot and gave the rest to a friend. Now that Lapua has Creedmoor brass....I might build another.... Yeah..IMHO.....its junk!

YEAH I'M CHANGEING BRANDS ALSO I HAVE SOME NOSLER BRASS AND I' LL GET LAPUA IF NEED BE !!!

 

[stacy]

NOT SHOOTING A STIFF LOAD OF H-4350 AND 130 BERGERS WITH 210M PRIMERS JUST HAD A FRIEND CALL WITH SAME ISSUE WITH HORNADY BRASS THAT CAME OUT OF MY SHOP I HAD SEVERAL BOXES THAT I HAD ON THE SHELF !!!

 

[Chief W]

I've been shooting Hornady brass in my 6.5 Creedmoor with a fairly hot load of 4350 with 140 ELDMs with no issues. Of course now that I say that out loud the stuff will start falling apart. Reloaded some of it 6 times and still holding up.

 

[shoot4fun]

My original Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor brass had 8 firings on it before I had to start culling prier pockets. Loads are a hearty dose of RL17 with 140 class bullets. I've never had or even seen a sign of case head separation on Hornady brass for either 6.5 or 6 Creedmoor. I keep my shoulder bump at .002 and anneal (not everytime but often). I loaded until recently on Hornady dies (no bushing) and the 6.5 rifle has consistently delivered natch winning accuracy. Now that I've hit on a good accuracy node with the 6 Creedmoor and RL16 it does the same. Should I even mention the fact that much of my brass gets work in three different 6.5 Creed rifles now? Of should I mention that the only case head separations/cracks I've ever experienced were with the Holy Grail Lapua brass (and not 6.5CM)?
Do I prefer Hornady brass in all my rifles? Hell no! But it has worked well for me for quite a number of years now.

 

[ImBIllT]

I've never used Hornady brass, but neck-sizing only I put close to 30 reloads on Lapua .308 Win before I got a case head separation. 0 annealing. Threw the lot out. I've brass only two times, and only for the purpose of combining groups of brass that had different numbers firings on them.

 

[jepp2]

OUT FOR SOME RANGE TIME TODAY SHOOTING MY 6.5 CREEDMOOR AND ON THE 4TH SHOT HAD A TOTAL CASE SEPERATION RITE IN THE CENTER OF THE CASE THIS BRASS HAD BEEN ANNEALED 1 TIME AND WAS ON THE 4TH FIRING THIS WAS SOME OF THE 1ST RUN BRASS U GUYS HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THESE BRASS

Do you full length size your cases each firing cycle?
How much do you set the shoulder back when you FL size?
Pics would help a lot, but did you see a shiny ring in the center of the cases on any others?
Have you used a bent paper clip to check for incipient case separation on the rest of the cases?

Any time I have seen case thinning it has been result of excessive shoulder movement. Every time. And I did case life test on 5.56 LC brass, and with the shoulder set back 0.004" per firing, at 35 loadings there was no case thinning.

 

[stacy]

Do you full length size your cases each firing cycle?
How much do you set the shoulder back when you FL size?
Pics would help a lot, but did you see a shiny ring in the center of the cases on any others?
Have you used a bent paper clip to check for incipient case separation on the rest of the cases?

Any time I have seen case thinning it has been result of excessive shoulder movement. Every time. And I did case life test on 5.56 LC brass, and with the shoulder set back 0.004" per firing, at 35 loadings there was no case thinning.[/QUOTEONLY BUMP 0.002 IS ALL CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING ON CASE WALLS INSIDE SO ON TO NEW BRASS

 

[onelastshot]

The last bag of Hornady brass I got was junk. Dings, dents and out of round necks. Hornady's response was to have me send in the bad pieces and they would replace them. That was the last Hornady product I purchased.

 

[K22]

My only experience with Hornady brass is in the 223 Rem bolt rifles. Reloaded 12 times, full sized with .002 shoulder bump. No issues to date with it.

 

[Rob01]

Been using Hornady Creedmoor brass since 2008 and never a case issue over thousands of rounds and multiple barrels. Issues like that usually come from over working brass. Do you actually measure the amount you are bumping the shoulder back when sizing? Also who chambered the rifle?

 

[Big Mc]

OUT FOR SOME RANGE TIME TODAY SHOOTING MY 6.5 CREEDMOOR AND ON THE 4TH SHOT HAD A TOTAL CASE SEPERATION RITE IN THE CENTER OF THE CASE THIS BRASS HAD BEEN ANNEALED 1 TIME AND WAS ON THE 4TH FIRING THIS WAS SOME OF THE 1ST RUN BRASS U GUYS HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THESE BRASS

Try some PPU don't have a lot of calbs. but fair brass..

 

[stacy]

Try some PPU don't have a lot of calbs. but fair brass..

OK THANKS

 

[47WillysGuy]

You're using 450 primers in the Hornady brass.

Are those CCI 450 primers? I'm on my ninth load of Hornady 6.5 CM brass and haven't had any problems, pockets tight but I've been using 200s with H4350 and Berger 130s.

 

[shoot4fun]

You're using 450 primers in the Hornady brass.

Are those CCI 450 primers? I'm on my ninth load of Hornady 6.5 CM brass and haven't had any problems, pockets tight but I've been using 200s with H4350 and Berger 130s.

He isn't really using CCI450 primers on Hornady 6.5 Creedmoor brass. The 450 is a small rifle magnum primer and the brass is large primer pockets.