Hornady brass

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Tlewis81

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Any good or bad expierences with it in general im gonna try it for my new 280 rem....winchester haard to find and seems crappy to be honest lately
 
Overly expensive in my opinion. I was just given a box of Hornady .357 mag brass from someone who bought it as loaded ammo and shot it. I wase xcited to have it, but after resizing it's still 30 thou too short! It went in the junk bucket. I wont trust spending my money on new Hornady brass now, and end up with this type of specs. I do like Hornady as a company however. For rifle brass, I really prefer Nosler. It's great stuff! Pistol brass I stick with Starline. For as cheap as it is, I cant complain about Federal rifle brass either but wheb buying new I get Nosler rifle brass.
 
I'm more in favor of the heavier brass like Nosler, Federal or Remington and others, but use Hornady and do not put it down. Read somewhere that Hornadies may have more weight variations than normal. Note that Winchester brass is often the lightest of all but have still found that to be very good with mag calibers. I avoid Winchester cases when it comes to '06 loadings for the Garand.
 
I have used Hornady rifle brass in several calibers with no problems. I agree, however, that it's a bit overpriced. Lapua is worth extra, Hornady not so much.

I had the same experience with .357 mag Hornady Custom loaded ammo - brass is short. Still works fine for reloads, but you have to segregate it (or cut the rest of your brass down).
 
I bought Hornady 22-250 brass to form into .250 Savage. I have shot and reloaded the heck out of that brass. Seems OK to me. I did buy some Graff brass(Made by Hornady) and had issues with size on that stuff.
 
I've found Hornady rifle brass to be on par with winchester or federal, middle of the road. Not worth the extra $ but still good enough brass for making ammunition.

As far as the Hornady 357 brass being "too short" I have a suspicion that you got some cases which were originally loaded with the 140gr FTX. The brass is cut down to account for the longer profile from tip-to-cannelure. FWIW I've also heard, but cannot attest myself, that Hornady loads more than just the 140s using the shorter cases.
 
I use it a lot in 30-06 and 308. I can't tell any difference between Hornady, Winchester or Remington brass.
 
Look at the headstamp. ;):D

Winchester and Remington use different alloys. Federal uses something close to Remingtons, but doesn't work harden it as much. This apparently improves accuracy of their factory loads, but garners a lot of complaints that primer pockets get loose quickly when handloading to anything much over 50,000 psi.

Military brass is 70:30 brass, same as Winchester, but the military gets the heads harder. I've seen at least one weight report on Hornady .308 that found it even lighter than Winchester. I've not bought any to verify this, but if true, it will have more powder capacity. 308 brass varies all over the place. The 1992 Palma match brass made by Winchester was also down at near 150 grains of weight to give it more powder capacity. That's what they developed their semi-balloon head profile for originally. But you can find 308 brass all way up to the weight of 30-06 military brass. I saw just recently 194 grains reported for some PMP 308 brass.
 
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And should have added that the Hornady brass is on the light side, sometimes challenging Winchesters for the lightweight championship. So it might be whether you prefer more powder space versus heavier brass with thicker necks and increased bullet hold. Good brass kind of depends on your definition of "good" brass.
 
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What Oldscot3 said. Just ordered a couple hundred cases of Hornady from Midway---no R-P available for maybe a couple of years. Have used Hornady brass for every rifle caliber I have, and see no difference. Primer pockets seem to get loose a bit quicker than R-P and Winchester. I am trying to figure out a way to tighten the pockets up---patent it and get rich! :p
 
I bought five boxes of 50 Hornady brass in .270 Win - I just weighed one box. I didn't put into a spreadsheet and try to find the average or standard deviation or anything, but weights went from a low of 177.08 to 180.54 - throw out the three hi and three low cases and spread is 177.24 to 179.94 for what that's worth. So extreme spread is about 3.5 grains in a batch of 50.
 
Colorado:
You might try CCI #200 rifle primers to try to tighten the primer fit. Don't recall their measurements against others but from everyday use they seem to have a tighter fit than others. Western Bullets www.westernbullet.com says they have Remington .280 brass at something like $14.30 per box of 20. Would prefer them over the Hornadies due to their heavier weight and greater neck tension.
 
Hornady & Frontier brass are the same so I've been told.
Seldom find any discarded Hornady brass at my club range. Every now and then a generous club shooter will give me a full box of {first fire} Frontier brand at our club meeting. Which I polish to a bling appearance, reload, and freely give those Frontier cartridges away to other friends & family members for their shooting pleasure. "That's how I go about promoting the shooting sports. i.e. Free ammo to shoot at their whim & where."

Hand loads for my firearms? Only Federal Brass do their actions cycle. Federal brand might not be the #1 Choice for some other shooter/s here. But _what matters to me: there my preferred brass.
 
I just processed a box of Hornady 416 Ruger. These go for about a buck a pop so they better be good, and I believe they are. I had stopped weighing my brass a long time ago - figure I'm going to use it all anyway - but I checked the 26 cases not yet loaded. Two were in the high 257gr range, all the others 258 or 259, with 19 of the 26 within one grain, which seems incredibly good for such a heavy case. Lengths were very uniform - only a few missed trim and when I was finished the pile of brass beneath the cutter was very small, just micro-flakes. I uniform flash holes and all holes seemed a bit snug, but none badly undersize, something i often find on cheaper brands. I did feel what must have been a lump or flash inside the case on a few, something I worry about since it might change the shape of the primer flame. I can't check metallurgy but I would say they have the slightly reddish tint I associate with most cartridges. It was interesting to see the chromium in Winchester, and yes, I've often thought Winchester was "whiter" than others. I think Hornady is the only source for 416 Ruger, but that's OK, they're fine by me.
 
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