Bad lot of Hornady 17 HMR ammo

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  • dougstump

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    Did a little bit of shooting with the HMR, had several neck splits that were very difficult to extract. They were split from the case mouth down about 3/16" below the shoulder. Checked some of the live rounds & half have cracked necks. I just inspected two sealed boxes, had 51 OK rounds & 49 with cracks. I have 20 boxes of this lot, ouch! Lot # J18J03, Hornady 17 grain V-Max.

    I emailed Hornady customer service, waiting to see what their response will be.
     

    Whitebread

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    I am interested to see how they resolve this issue. I have always been fond of their products. I've shot sst for years in my 30-06 and have always been pleased with the quality they are one of the few ammunition manufacturers making 6.5 Grendel also.
     

    tallguy606

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    Lately I have had this issue also. I bought my Marlin 917VS rifle about 6 years ago. Shortly after bought 5 boxes of 17-gr Hornady. A month ago started to have a few failure to extract issues, but cases flipped out easily with tip of pocket knife. Today was shooting this rifle again, had 3 of these failures. Looked closely, yes, cracked neck on brass. Still shot tight groups, and ejected with knife point. I am on the 3rd box of the 5 (yeah, I shoot it sparingly) so maybe just this box is bad. Will be interested to see what your outcome is.
     

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