Is it possible to get a bagful of bad brass?
Did some reloads for the wife's 6.5CM AR, using Hornady brass as it's relatively plentiful around here. Brand-new out of the box. Resized them with a full-length resizer and loaded as normal. Went to the range this morning to shoot with the nephew and zero her scope. Load up a mag, hit the bolt release and the bolt wont go into battery and it's STUCK. After tugging on the charging handle a bit, I manage to get the round unstuck. Try another one. Same thing. And another. Same result.
Went home, and pulled a piece of brass from the last time we shot the rifle. It's Hornady brass like before. Resize it and seat a bullet in it, the dummy loads just fine. I pull the bullet out of one of the rounds that stuck, resize it, seat a bullet, and load it into a mag and the rifle fails to go into battery like before. Pull another box of Hornady brass, choose a case, resize it and seat a bullet... Rifle loads properly.
I've been taking measurements of the dimensions of one of the cases that was getting stuck, and they're slightly larger than others, but within SAAMI spec. Just wondering if this is just bad batch of brass and I should just recover my powder and bullets, or something I'm doing wrong...
Did some reloads for the wife's 6.5CM AR, using Hornady brass as it's relatively plentiful around here. Brand-new out of the box. Resized them with a full-length resizer and loaded as normal. Went to the range this morning to shoot with the nephew and zero her scope. Load up a mag, hit the bolt release and the bolt wont go into battery and it's STUCK. After tugging on the charging handle a bit, I manage to get the round unstuck. Try another one. Same thing. And another. Same result.
Went home, and pulled a piece of brass from the last time we shot the rifle. It's Hornady brass like before. Resize it and seat a bullet in it, the dummy loads just fine. I pull the bullet out of one of the rounds that stuck, resize it, seat a bullet, and load it into a mag and the rifle fails to go into battery like before. Pull another box of Hornady brass, choose a case, resize it and seat a bullet... Rifle loads properly.
I've been taking measurements of the dimensions of one of the cases that was getting stuck, and they're slightly larger than others, but within SAAMI spec. Just wondering if this is just bad batch of brass and I should just recover my powder and bullets, or something I'm doing wrong...