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Anyone used this new Hornady ammo?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:09 am
by fatman
http://www.hornady.com/store/Steel-Match-new
Now the components seem to be top notch but im a little iffy on the whole steel case thing after using some wolf, according to the web some people love it, some hate it, they do seem to agree thats its not to bad accuracy wise but no one has said how clean it is and just generally how it goes.
Re: Anyone used this new Hornady ammo?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:12 am
by Pudfark
"Steel Match 40 S&W, 45 Auto and 308 Win loads all meet IDPA/ IPSC/USPSA “Major” power factor performance criteria, but are kept to moderate velocities to deliver only mild recoil for reduced muzzle jump and fast recovery on target. Additionally, Steel Match 9mm and 223 Rem both meet “Minor” power factor criteria."
Steel cased ammo is known to be hard on extractors...This stuff is admitted to be under powered. Now you know why....it is also Berdan primed, meaning difficult to impossible to reload. I personally would only use it, if?
It was all I could get...
Old Pudfark sez: " If ya can't control guns, control ammo...be sure and make it Berdan Primed, with steel cases.."
Re: Anyone used this new Hornady ammo?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:14 am
by fatman
Well not only the primer but its steel cased cant reload anyway, and it is cheap cleaver up in Queensland has it at $245 for 500 rounds so its about half the price of federal powershok and since most of it ends up in old cars, targets, bottles and trees
Re: Anyone used this new Hornady ammo?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:35 am
by Pudfark
Uh...steel case ammo can be reloaded.
I had, back in the late seventy's early eighty's a hundred or so
steel cased .45 ACP hulls...boxer primed, from WWII...
I used carbide dies and heavily lubed the cases....they were used
for very heavy handloads with 200 grain semi-wadcutters..in a 1911
pistol...with, I believe a 28lb slide spring....I never had access to a chronograph
back then....but I do believe they would have easily clocked above 1200 fps.
I killed a couple of javelina with them and one deer...every round exited.
It's probably, very ok to use steel cased ammo in manually operated weapons...
In semi or full auto weapons, expect accelerated wear and more frequent breakage...
Yeah, I know...lots of the stuff is fired in SKS and AK weapons...and yes, those weapons
are very robust....however, don't fire off a few mags and leave the weapon hot with a live
round in the chamber, that is steel cased...the lacquer melts and the round has a tendency to
stick in the chamber, causing extractor breakage or failure to extract...just sayin...