Hornady Brass

• Apr 14, 2018

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Brian in Montana

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I've shot a lot of Hornady factory ammo in my .308 and have quite a lot of it sitting around. I reloaded some of it yesterday, for the first time, and quickly found I was having trouble seating the primers. Upon comparison with the other brass I was loading - a mixture of Winchester, PMC, and Fiocchi, I noticed it's designed different. There is an extra lip, or edge pointing up out of the primer pocket. I used my handy-dandy primer pocket reamer on them but only just enough to get a primer to seat. But it makes me a little nervous to do something that alters the primer pocket.

Anyway, anybody else noticed this? How's the best way to work with it in re-loading?

 

• Apr 14, 2018

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I noticed this on all of the once fired .223 hornady cases I loaded. They have crimped primers, I used my chamfering tool and removed the crimp just enough to seat the new primer.

 

• Apr 14, 2018

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Mthuntinfool

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I Have never had a problem with it, and I use Hornady brass when ever I can

 

• Apr 14, 2018

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Dougfirtree

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I've used a lot of Hornady brass and I've not had this problem. However, it catches my eye, because in all my life, I've only ever had 3 factory loaded centerfire cartridges fail to go off and they were all Hornady, two of them in the same box. I've also had the same issue with brand new Hornady brass that has not been fire-formed in my rifle. Once it's been through a single time, the issue is gone.

 

• Apr 14, 2018

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m77hunter

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It may be exclusive to the common AR15/AR10 rounds. I saw it in .223, Brian has it with .308. The brass I had was from Hornady factory ammo.

 

• Apr 15, 2018

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They do it on 30/06 too. I have a box of factory American Whitetail 30/06 with crimped primers.

tim

 

• Apr 15, 2018

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mo381

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I have noticed on Hornady .300 wm brass also. I don't remember it on the .308 but it has been a while since it was initially shot and reloaded.

 

• Apr 16, 2018

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I've had the same issue on new hornady 6mm brass.