10-16-2021, 10:38 PM
CZ, these are the scratches. These are fired - it's a little worse after sizing. They are very fine near the bottom of the case and makes it extremely dull.
Calling Hornady won't do me any good - I'm sure they'll tell me it's my lube and suggest I buy their lube. The scratches pretty much start at the portion of the body that sits in the Hornady tray. I wear a sleeve from old long sleeve t shirt on my arm and wipe the shoulder to prevent hydraulic sizing and then wipe the whole body. This works flawlessly in all of my other dies in other calibers. I'm guessing it's just cheap Chinese steel. I have absolutely horrible luck with any Hornady products. From oversized bullets that shear JP bolt lugs (about 2% were more oversized than the rest), to brass with inconsistent neck wall thickness, to the electronic scale I got with my original lock n load kit that would never settle on a value and kept running up and down, to the ultrasonic cleaner that wouldn't power up out of the box, to bullets that simply don't go to where they are pointed. Based on my experience, I'm flabbergasted as to how they could still be in business. The only reason I bought the dies was because I didn't want the small base die and they were the only other ones available. But it's time to move on. Brownells has the Wilson bushing die in stock.
Gorilla - the case is stuck in the die and the rim got ripped off of the brass trying to extract it.
r.t, it's 3x fired converted Starline 6.5 Grendel.
Calling Hornady won't do me any good - I'm sure they'll tell me it's my lube and suggest I buy their lube. The scratches pretty much start at the portion of the body that sits in the Hornady tray. I wear a sleeve from old long sleeve t shirt on my arm and wipe the shoulder to prevent hydraulic sizing and then wipe the whole body. This works flawlessly in all of my other dies in other calibers. I'm guessing it's just cheap Chinese steel. I have absolutely horrible luck with any Hornady products. From oversized bullets that shear JP bolt lugs (about 2% were more oversized than the rest), to brass with inconsistent neck wall thickness, to the electronic scale I got with my original lock n load kit that would never settle on a value and kept running up and down, to the ultrasonic cleaner that wouldn't power up out of the box, to bullets that simply don't go to where they are pointed. Based on my experience, I'm flabbergasted as to how they could still be in business. The only reason I bought the dies was because I didn't want the small base die and they were the only other ones available. But it's time to move on. Brownells has the Wilson bushing die in stock.
Gorilla - the case is stuck in the die and the rim got ripped off of the brass trying to extract it.
r.t, it's 3x fired converted Starline 6.5 Grendel.
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