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    Bad hornady ammo

    Has anyone else had any issues with hornady sst ammo? I run the vmax through my AR and I really like it. Bought some SSTs for my 308, didn't group amazing, but what I really was concerned about was out of a box of 20 I had 4 rounds fail to fire. Primer strikes on all 4 but nothing but that dreaded click. I ran a full box each of winchester ballistic tips, federal fusions and Barnes ttsx all with zero FTFs. Anyone else ever have this issue? I have two or three more boxes of the hornady now from the same lot that I'm not sure about.

    #2
    Call hornady and let them know. I shoot the sst's and never had that issue sir.

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      #3
      X2...never had issues with Hornady

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        #4
        Never had any trouble with SST's

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          #5
          Never had a problem with Hornady.

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            #6
            Have had the occasional no fire with SST in 30-06

            Maybe 1 per 100

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              #7
              If it is Superformance with the SSTs throw it away and never buy anymore. That stuff is crap. I have never had any issues with any of my guns shooting hornady loads until I went with Superformance. Had two different guns throw it all over the paper.

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                #8
                I had 2 out of 5 rounds I grabbed out of a new box of Hornady American Whitetails fail to fire, 243. I threw the rest of the box away.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by jwharrell View Post
                  X2...never had issues with Hornady
                  X3

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by captainsling View Post
                    If it is Superformance with the SSTs throw it away and never buy anymore. That stuff is crap. I have never had any issues with any of my guns shooting hornady loads until I went with Superformance. Had two different guns throw it all over the paper.
                    It's not the bullets fault. They are shooting too hot for your gun.

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                      #11
                      They are the superformance SSTs. Never had any ammo ever FTF with a primer strike on this rifle before. Guess I'll just sell the rest of them. I actually had really good groups with the winchester Ballistic silvertips which surprised me because I know a lot of people hate them lol.

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                        #12
                        The bottom group of 3 was from the hornady, then another 3 shot group above that with the winchester, tried to make an adjustment by moving crosshairs to POI and bumped my gun lol. So took another shot to see where I was. That was the single low and right. Made my adjustment and did another 2 shot group. All but that loose group at the bottom were the winchester. Ha I ran out of ammo since I only had 6 rounds of winchester I found in my range bag. Wish I would have just started with them instead of burnin through a bunch of hornady first. All of these were at 100m.
                        Last edited by Iehooligan11b; 11-26-2014, 08:44 AM.

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                          #13
                          Well that is unfortunate about that ammo LOT. Fortunately, I've never had any issue's with the SST Hornady ammo.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Fajkus7 View Post
                            It's not the bullets fault. They are shooting too hot for your gun.
                            I know the bullet has nothing to do with it. My point was that they are inaccurate rounds fired through most rifles. I have talked to two different gun smiths that have said the powder they use to get the velocity burns inconsistently, and they have rarely seen them perform in many rifles.

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                              #15
                              Glad to see this post!

                              I bought some Hornady Superperformance SST in .257roberts a few weeks ago and they shot GREAT at the range. Fast forward to Saturday, I was hunting in Laredo and tried to shoot a bobcat...click! Ejected, cycled another round, and missed!

                              I looked at the shell when we got back to camp and it has a soft primer strike. When looking at the shell next to another, the primer seems to be set in a little bit. I will definitely be contacting Hornady.

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