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Hornady stepping on its own
@ 10:01 am (GMT) |
Scott StruifRedundant, I know, but here’s Hornady, at 37:30, admitting that you can’t rely on their factory ammo to use the same powder lot to lot.https://youtu.be/rLbuf6i-b8o?si=LphPpL2rfo1QdhkW |
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@ 03:27 am (GMT) |
Ed SybertRe: Hornady stepping on its ownI've been reloading for 50 years and I can't recall ever hearing or reading that the factory cartridges would use the same powder lot to lot. It has been known for a long time that ammunition companies use powders that are not available to individual reloaders. More recently, we've learned that powders are often blended to meet burning specifications. With new cartridges coming to market every year, the manufacturers have to have latitude to optimize performance. |
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@ 12:18 pm (GMT) |
Scott StruifRe: Hornady stepping on its ownThanks, Ed. I understand your point, but I would have thought that once a manufacturer settled on a load for a particular cartridge in a particular product line, they wouldn’t change it. The Hornady engineer slipped and said you can’t rely on their using the same powder, even in their Superformance ammo. That surprised me, because Hodgdon sells Superformance powder purporting to be the same powder used by Hornady.Elsewhere in their podcasts, Hornady stated that their ammo is so consistent that many competition shooters choose to use Hornady factory ammo, rather than waste time and money reloading. They never bothered to caution customers that their product might vary lot-to-lot, until legal liability concerns dictated that they caution users of gas operated semiautomatic guns to only buy ammo certified safe in those rifles. |
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