22 Hornet ammo - Hornady. Too hot?

[tokguy]

Anyone else find it too hot?
I was running it through a Savage 219 and it had the disconcerting habit of dumping out the primer with an Earsplitting 'Crack' about every fourth round.
Now is when someone tells me to slug the bore. Slugging the bore on .22's sucks, so it got shelved, for a later look-see.
I was reloading with good results anyhow.
Got to it and knocked the bullets out of the remaining rds yesterday. They are exactly the same diameter is my reloading fodder ( .221 on a digital caliper...both knocked down bullets and reloading stock ), so saying that the caliper isn't reading true...might be correct. But the same diameter bullet reloaded works fine through through this rifle.
Therefore it must be the actually powder charge and resulting higher pressure that is the problem, no?
Typically Hornady brass is top notch so I'm not entertaining 'Faulty brass' as a culprit.
Anyone else had issues with the Hornady fodder?

 

[Brutus]

I also find I have issues with this Hornady ammo it in my Browning. Mostly difficulty with very stiff resistance to chambering. When I try out Remington Premier ammo, no such problems and the Accutips group very nicely at 100 meters.

Cheers!

 

[MiG25]

I'd like to see pictures of your 219 please.

I'm not really familiar with these (although I want one) but is it possible that it is on a shotgun frame and the firing pin hole is larger? IE Savage 220 vs 219, or were they the same?

 

[tokguy]

I'll try to get some up this morning then, thanks

 

[mudgunner49]

Your micrometer may well be off as the bullets should mike .223 or .224 and not .221"...

 

[tokguy]

Your micrometer may well be off as the bullets should mike .223 or .224 and not .221"...

Oh it likely is, pretty cheap one. The point was that the offending rounds were exactly the same as the good ones.

 

[dnepr]

I have no experience with hornady ammo in my 22 hornet , but I have been using some hornady light magnums in my 308 . And if I seen primers like that in my reloads I would be backing off a couple grains

 

[Dfbshaw]

Over 100 rds of hornady VMax through my savage 342 with zero problems. Bad batch on your end? Did it happen with more than one box?

 

[Longwalker]

My Anschutz eats Hornady ammo with no problems.

 

[spooksar]

Some batches of Hornady have soft brass. I had the same problem with my 460 S&W. I called them and they said soft brass, send it to Korth and they would replace it.