04-14-2021, 01:01 PM
If the swipes are not heavy, like if you can not catch it with your fingernail I would not worry about it. It seems to be a characteristic of this round. Another thing you can look at is your ejector, does it have sharp or rounded edges. If they are sharp remove it and chuck it in a drill and us a jewelers file and round the edge, then use some 1000 and 1500 sandpaper to polish it. Not a guarantee it will fix it but the edge should be rounded anyways. Every type II bolt I have encountered has needed this done. The sharp edge is catching the brass as it is rotated in the bolt during extraction.
During the infancy of all this I pulled down a bullet and weighed the powder, poured it on a white piece of paper and then poured some CFE223 next to it. The two powders looked identical, but when I tried to duplicate the load with the same weight of powder and the same bullet... the velocity came up short with the CFE, so the powder that Hornady is using is something similar but not exact to CFE. Most manufactures use canister powders made to their specs.
Nobody that I know of to date has had a problem like blown up guns or broken bolts. But it does raise an eyebrow though. I know that the new Hodgen load data has changed and is quite a bit lower for this round across the board. Another thing to ponder is how much higher the bolt gun data is, and again no real problems have been reported.
During the infancy of all this I pulled down a bullet and weighed the powder, poured it on a white piece of paper and then poured some CFE223 next to it. The two powders looked identical, but when I tried to duplicate the load with the same weight of powder and the same bullet... the velocity came up short with the CFE, so the powder that Hornady is using is something similar but not exact to CFE. Most manufactures use canister powders made to their specs.
Nobody that I know of to date has had a problem like blown up guns or broken bolts. But it does raise an eyebrow though. I know that the new Hodgen load data has changed and is quite a bit lower for this round across the board. Another thing to ponder is how much higher the bolt gun data is, and again no real problems have been reported.
If you can not see the tyranny of having a gun ban enforced by men with guns... Then you fail to understand why the second amendment was written in the first place.