Comments on: Hornady 6.5 Grendel Brass — Whitley Reports

By: Douglas Pugh

Douglas Pugh — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:47:00 +0000

I just built a 6.5 Grendel and I am blowing primer hole in New Hornady Factory Ammo….I switched firing pins and it still blowing hole when fired. Whats up with that ??????

By: robert

robert — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:32:59 +0000

I have had the same belted mag look with below max aa2520, some do and some don’t. I have not looked to see if it’s lapua or hornadey. I will look, thanks for the heads up.

By: Jed

Jed — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:42:47 +0000

After buying 20 boxes of Privi .375 H&H ammo and having about 10% of the rounds fail to chamber I steer clear of this serb junk ammo. Not sure if it was a delta L problem or just poor QC but I don’t gain confidence in a product having to throw 10% of it in the trash. (I actually dykem the case and tried to chamber them. Then took a small safe edge file and removed brass from the belts top side changing headspace and they worked.)

By: Killshot

Killshot — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:25 +0000

I shot both brass makes in my 6ARturbo40º and found the Lapua to be both more accurate (the smaller flash hole, maybe? had no idea they were different until today) and resisted pocket-loosening better than the Hornady did with hotter loads.

Am now loading a Dasher and find the Lapua 6BR pockets are MUCH tighter than the those of the 6.5Grendel.

By: Dale R

Dale R — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:21:45 +0000

‘m a little confused here. I’ve always heard that Lapua makes the “best brass in the world” and you can reload them till the cows come home but that has NOT been my experience.
I loaded Hornady SST 120gr with 29.8 Gr of ACC 2520 using CCI 450’s @ “2.220 COAL and Sierra SMK 120’s with 30.0Gr of ACC2520 and CCI 450’s@ “2.220 which is well within spec and in both cases it has produced a very distinct sharp ring around the head of the case .224 past the head. I get same result with some other loads that should be perfectly fine using WIN 748, BLC-2, H335, and sometimes the case nearly looking like a belted magnum but if I use a Hornady brass I have no problem at all, the case is perfectly reusable. In trying to solve this problem the only thing I have come up with is when you look inside a Lapua case at the transition from the head to the side of the case, the transition is very sharp but with the Hornady case it is more of a slow bevel neatly rounded from head to web?. I had seen another post of someone having problems with blowing out the head area of the case on 6.5 Grendel but they did not specify what brass,powder, primer or bullet so it was of no help to me. Have any of you had this problem? maybe I have an early batch of Lapua brass? could someone look inside and compare the area mentioned to see if I just have a bad batch? I lost nearly 100 cases that I do not trust on a reload for fear I will be trying to pull a split case out of my barrel and these things aint cheap. Any healp would be greatly appreciated.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:46:11 +0000

Editor:

The other question is just what powder is Hornady using? If it is one of their ‘super duper velocity’ (ball) powders I would expect it to be more temperature sensitive than RL 15 and the zeroes to drift more with temperature changes.

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:57:18 +0000

Cruft, you raise a good point, but here’s another way to look at it, based on the idea that the Lapua brass is good for ten loading cycles (many guys get more if they anneal).

$0.29 – Bullet (123 SMK–plenty to be had)
$0.095 – Brass (Lapua)
$0.02 – Primer (Wolf)
$0.08 – Powder (RL 15)

$0.485 Per round cost.

By: cruft

cruft — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:40:05 +0000

just googled the component cost; 1) lapua brass $1 per piece, 2) 123 amax bullet $0.25 & good luck finding it, 3) primer & powder $?, 4)personal time loading ?????. So the price of loaded hornady cartridges at $1 seems like the deal of the century to me. Anyone want 500 lapua new cases?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:41:59 +0000

You have to wonder just why it is that the U.S. brass manufacturers can not seem to manufacture brass that has as strong a case head/primer pocket as Lapua are manufacturing. Winchester cases seem to have about as strong a primer pocket as any of the U.S. manufacturers, but they are unlikely to manufacture any new brass cases in the near term as they are working at capacity to fill existing orders.

It certainly would be nice to have a second (or third) source for 6.5×47 L brass or even another source for good 260 Rem brass.

“Surely” these companies either have metallurgists on their payroll or could hire some as consultants to get things right.

By: Steve Clark

Steve Clark — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:28:11 +0000

Yes, PP’s Grendel loaded cartridges have been available here under the Wolf brand for three or four years.
Unloaded cases — to my knowledge — have not been offered. You gotta shoot the loaded ammo first to reload ‘em.