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I guess you really should weigh your brass
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<blockquote data-quote="GrayCreed" data-source="post: 2199757" data-attributes="member: 114633"><p>Hornady once fired brass is really bad for this, I don't know if the Hornady bag brass is any different I started loading 6.5creedmoor with 100 pieces of S&B brass and 120 pieces of Hornady once fired brass from ammo I bought. Originally, being a newby I assumed that the Hornady brass would be best because they had a large online presence in the reloading and precision shooting community. I was wrong, not saying if you buy a bag of Hornady brass or bags all from the same lot you can't get good results. But after wieght sorting the brass I found that while the S&B brass had an extreme spread (brass wieght) of 3 grains and the Hornady brass had an extreme spread of 12 grains. While I know that internal volume and wieght don't always correlate, a variance of 12 grains either way (and this was not just outliers) most likely would have significant impact on my internal volume, groups and definitely velocity. I did figure out however that if you get Hornady brass all from the same lot it is very close to the same. The problem arises when you have 20 pieces from American whitetail, 30 pieces from 2 different boxes of Precision Hunter and 50 pieces of American Gunner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrayCreed, post: 2199757, member: 114633"] Hornady once fired brass is really bad for this, I don't know if the Hornady bag brass is any different I started loading 6.5creedmoor with 100 pieces of S&B brass and 120 pieces of Hornady once fired brass from ammo I bought. Originally, being a newby I assumed that the Hornady brass would be best because they had a large online presence in the reloading and precision shooting community. I was wrong, not saying if you buy a bag of Hornady brass or bags all from the same lot you can't get good results. But after wieght sorting the brass I found that while the S&B brass had an extreme spread (brass wieght) of 3 grains and the Hornady brass had an extreme spread of 12 grains. While I know that internal volume and wieght don't always correlate, a variance of 12 grains either way (and this was not just outliers) most likely would have significant impact on my internal volume, groups and definitely velocity. I did figure out however that if you get Hornady brass all from the same lot it is very close to the same. The problem arises when you have 20 pieces from American whitetail, 30 pieces from 2 different boxes of Precision Hunter and 50 pieces of American Gunner. [/QUOTE]
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