greyling22
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I was about to load up some ammo for my bolt gun, and I thought, why not try to check case weights? So I took my box of sized and trimmed hornady 223 brass and weighed them. (all my brass is range pickup)
93.7
95.4
93.7
92.9
93.4
91.8
91.0
91.7
90.0
91.8
that's a 5 grain spread over 10 cases. does that seem like it should matter? is hornady brass just not very good? if I cull the 90 and the 95.4 I get a much closer spread. perhaps that is what I should do?
It's all hornady, but not from the same lot.
is there a better brand? I'm not going to buy lapua, and I'm not going to fool with the crimped primer pockets of lake city. who's left? winchester? pmc? remington?
I had read this article a while back https://www.6mmbr.com/223Rem.html that indicated hornady was the most consistent of the american brass, but my results are not backing that up.
93.7
95.4
93.7
92.9
93.4
91.8
91.0
91.7
90.0
91.8
that's a 5 grain spread over 10 cases. does that seem like it should matter? is hornady brass just not very good? if I cull the 90 and the 95.4 I get a much closer spread. perhaps that is what I should do?
It's all hornady, but not from the same lot.
is there a better brand? I'm not going to buy lapua, and I'm not going to fool with the crimped primer pockets of lake city. who's left? winchester? pmc? remington?
I had read this article a while back https://www.6mmbr.com/223Rem.html that indicated hornady was the most consistent of the american brass, but my results are not backing that up.
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