Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles bad batch of hornady v-max?

howdy all,
I been gone a,while but I,m back at the bench- I,m loading some
224 hornady 55-v-max- these bullets vary in length from base to ogive as much as .020-- what the hells going on?
I have a good caliper an good hornady gauges-m my oal kept coming out all over the board as I set my seater (rcbs) good shape tool- how can I expect to load consistant ammo with these?
I have loaded hornady for years but just noticed this with the 223--- Thanks ahead,

Is there a possibility that there could be some 53 grain bullets mixed with the 55's?

Curious to what the scale offers for answers.

I somewhat recently found a bullet 105 grains heavier considerably longer and larger in diameter than the other 90 + bullets in the box. Yes the box count came up short on the count, I dare say due to the heavier bullet.

Murphy and human mistakes do occur.

good question on the 53vs 55- I never had any 53s but I,ll find out,

Thanks ya,ll

Let us know what you find out. If proven true, I'm pretty sure Hornady will want to know and will likely take good care of you and send you a box with proper weights.

will do,, thanks',

53's are BT's.....55's are FB......

I'd check and then clean the seater die. Muddy

I'd load 100 and hit the range.




Travis

You'd take them elk hunting too, I suspect...

Not intentionally.




Travis

o.k, this just in-

Didn't measure the whole dang box, there tiny an my big old fingers etc,,

off the 27,,, all weighed the same 55 grins with my rcbs 10-10,,

but-- measuring them, 13- were 1.414
7- were 1.434
7- were 1.425, all base to ogive-

They shoot "ok" but hell wouldn't they shoot more consistent if they were the exact same size?
They shot like .600?? with this varying "jump"
???
I just want to load the best rounds I Can<<<<<

Keep shootin'.




Travis

.6 for 5 shots. Why you Bitchin. You got a cooper or bench gun, then you have a bitch, factory no bitch at all.
But then again, I think hornady bullets are inferior for group shooting.

well ,,, now were get n somewhere,, what would your favorite bullet be accuracy wise??

and- .6 was a best out of lots of groups-- generally 1" range,,,

Accuracy wise, Sierra 52 - 53. Nosler CC is great too nats azz small groups. LT32 in combo with a BR 4 primer produces dandy small groups. Benchmark in the 25 - 26 grain range with said bullets also has proved to be a dandy small group shooter.
In 55 grain range of bullets the varmegeddon sucked, but BT's and Sierras did well. Produced .3 - .4 5 shot groups out of 2 different coopers. 52 - 53 were in the consistent . 25 or less range.
The only hornady bullet that ever perforfomed for groups in my experience was the 6 mm 75 grain HP Match.

Thank ya swifty-
This is the only "pop gun" I ever loaded for, I,m really an overbore shooter- 7 mag, 257 Roy,, got tired of all the powder an kick,, This thing is easy ta shoot,,, I,ll get
some other stuff going,

Good shoot n ,,
rc

Hornady.




Travis

Yep.

I'm a Hornady 'Ho', too....