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Hornady 28 Nosler Brass - First Impressions
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<blockquote data-quote="Roughwater" data-source="post: 1569350" data-attributes="member: 33915"><p>A little add on to this thread - I live in the country and can shoot out my back door if I want. So I did just that this AM. I shot three rounds using the Hornady brass. All used Hornady 28N brass and 215M primers and 145 gn hammer bullets. I did it because I wanted to see if there would be any ejector marks on my brass. I had been seeing the marks on my brass using the Nosler brass at slightly larger powder loads so this test won't confirm this brass to be harder but if I see no marks I might assume it to be at least as hard as Nosler Brass.</p><p>That said my results were:</p><p>1. IMR 8133 with 84.5 gns got me 3304 FPS and no marks on brass</p><p>2. Retumbo with a Max load (Per Hodgdon with a 145 gn bullet) of 83.4 gn= 3366 FPS</p><p>3. Same Retumbo load as above just to verify= 3354 - No marks on brass</p><p><a href="http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/rifle" target="_blank">http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/rifle</a></p><p>Note: that was a max load per Hodgdon for the Retumbo powder but Nosler shows a max load of 56 gn of Retumbo even with a heavier 150 gn bullet.</p><p>Also note that Hodgdon was only getting 3275 FPS with the max load of Retumbo with a 150 gn bullet where as the Hammer bullet was flying at 3354+ fps from the same load. Also just to do a basic test of the primer pockets in the Hornady brass my 2nd and 3rd shot was with the same piece of brass, I just reloaded it. After the second shot from that brass I put a third primer in it and it still seated as tightly as a new piece of Nosler brass. So far from what I see with the Hornady brass if I need any more 28 brass it will be Hornady.</p><p>As an edit I just wanted to add that I used a Magnetospeed type chrony to get my velocity results and I highly trust it to be accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roughwater, post: 1569350, member: 33915"] A little add on to this thread - I live in the country and can shoot out my back door if I want. So I did just that this AM. I shot three rounds using the Hornady brass. All used Hornady 28N brass and 215M primers and 145 gn hammer bullets. I did it because I wanted to see if there would be any ejector marks on my brass. I had been seeing the marks on my brass using the Nosler brass at slightly larger powder loads so this test won't confirm this brass to be harder but if I see no marks I might assume it to be at least as hard as Nosler Brass. That said my results were: 1. IMR 8133 with 84.5 gns got me 3304 FPS and no marks on brass 2. Retumbo with a Max load (Per Hodgdon with a 145 gn bullet) of 83.4 gn= 3366 FPS 3. Same Retumbo load as above just to verify= 3354 - No marks on brass [URL]http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/rifle[/URL] Note: that was a max load per Hodgdon for the Retumbo powder but Nosler shows a max load of 56 gn of Retumbo even with a heavier 150 gn bullet. Also note that Hodgdon was only getting 3275 FPS with the max load of Retumbo with a 150 gn bullet where as the Hammer bullet was flying at 3354+ fps from the same load. Also just to do a basic test of the primer pockets in the Hornady brass my 2nd and 3rd shot was with the same piece of brass, I just reloaded it. After the second shot from that brass I put a third primer in it and it still seated as tightly as a new piece of Nosler brass. So far from what I see with the Hornady brass if I need any more 28 brass it will be Hornady. As an edit I just wanted to add that I used a Magnetospeed type chrony to get my velocity results and I highly trust it to be accurate. [/QUOTE]
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