.22 Hornet

[ianm 2,594]

1 hour ago, BenBhoy said:

Yeah it's after mate so I'm not that arseđ but just never had it happen with hornady rounds. 

I have had it with an odd one of these hornady rounds and i had it with the winchesters when i had the first hmr.

It is when they are split before they are attempted to be fired that the problems arise.

[Deker 3,453]

 

7 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Yeah it's after mate so I'm not that arseđ but just never had it happen with hornady rounds. 

 

8 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

I used remington for first time last week & had loads of splits.... 

 

17 hours ago, Gav said:

I've been contemplating swapping my .17hmr out for a .22 hornet or .222 for the greylag here, you need to shoot em up the arse with the 17, or they just fly off, the .308 just emits red mist and a plume of feathers, and way too much expense! Pills for .22 hornet are out of stock most places, and I'm getting split necks again off the federal .17's. Then there's the 16 week wait on a variation, coz the cops are frightened of a flu and won't go to work to do their job

 

I am 200+ split cases with Hornady, I used to keep them until the increasing numbers bored me.

I thought I read somewhere recently they had got over the split case issue (something to do with case material tweaking) anyway, are these new or old cartridges?

[BenBhoy 4,706]

5 minutes ago, Deker said:

 

 

 

I am 200+ split cases with Hornady, I used to keep them until the increasing numbers bored me.

I thought I read somewhere recently they had got over the split case issue (something to do with case material tweaking) anyway, are these new or old cartridges?

The Rimington I bought last week... lot cheaper than v-max!

[Deker 3,453]

2 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

The Rimington I bought last week... lot cheaper than v-max!

Now that's strange, Remington are commonly awful, especially their .22lr, but I have used Remington HMR a few times and found them ok, and a pall won't use anything else.

These days I have to say the vast majority I use are Hornady V-Max.

I'm not sure who makes HMR these days, a few years ago CCI made them for just about everyone except Winchester, and there was a time Federal made their own!

[BenBhoy 4,706]

More today. But they group well enough so mustn't grumble. 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I went through an old box of remington ammo last night with a magnifying   and picked out the ones split. I took them work for destruction. 

[Gav 1,708]

13 hours ago, Sausagedog said:

I went through an old box of remington ammo last night with a magnifying   and picked out the ones split. I took them work for destruction. 

Just been through an open box I have and seven out of twenty-seven unfired have split necks. I bought ten boxes of Federal v-shock just before lockdown 2020 and have seven still unopened, shows how much I've used it in the last two years

You can make out the cracks if you zoom in, I've put them away now so will get batch number when I get them out again, I'll go out at some point and test the accuracy. I never checked all the others as didn't realised the problem was still prominent!

 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Just been through an open box I have and seven out of twenty-seven unfired have split necks. I bought ten boxes of Federal v-shock just before lockdown 2020 and have seven still unopened, shows how much I've used it in the last two years

You can make out the cracks if you zoom in, I've put them away now so will get batch number when I get them out again, I'll go out at some point and test the accuracy. I never checked all the others as didn't realised the problem was still prominent!

 

Gav, in all honesty it could be old stock! Mine definitely is.

However, my stock of Hornady is current and there are no issues.

I don't recommend  shooting the split necks. High pressure leakage can occur or a blockage.

[Gav 1,708]

10 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

Gav, in all honesty it could be old stock! Mine definitely is.

However, my stock of Hornady is current and there are no issues.

I don't recommend  shooting the split necks. High pressure leakage can occur or a blockage.

I did think about that, then thought I'd probably shot many that we're split already and as long as I know they're split, I'd check the barrel every time.

I'll be checking them all as I open each carton now anyway, see how many I get and take them back to swap out maybe

And sorry luke, high jacked your hornet post and gone off on one