re Hornady 45 colt brass

[ocelott]

I'm not sure that this is the right section...and It may have been covered by someone else...

For anyone that reloads 45 colt - I've been finding that all the newer Hornady 45 colt brass is shorter than the standard length. I'm measuring it on average to be 1.235" OAL instead of the standard 1.280-1.285" OAL from the other companies.

That can throw a louie in the works when one is working with mixed range brass.

It does however work very nicely for the Hornady 300gr xtp and xtp mag to achieve a 1.590" OAL and with the Lee 300gr GC mold - to achieve a 1.585" OAL

[Johnch]

Yep
Hornady has been making short brass for a while now

Ever since they released the flex tip bullets
Any brass they load with these bullets is short , or at least all that I have checked


In order to get the right OAL

They shortened the brass , all the brass in that cal. instead of making 2 different lengths
For Flex Tip and non flex tip bullets

I for 1 like Hornady brass
But don't feel like ajusting my loads and die's for 1 brand of brass
So I sort it out and trade or sell it

John

[tryNto]

Yep, I found the samething.
Seperated from the rest and put them away for now.

[ocelott]

Thanks - I thought I was going crazy.

and it was driving my me and my dies nuts

I"ve got about 250 normal length brass and about 400 short brass....

Makes for load development a little touchy,

that was until I separated all the Hornady out of the pile

[noylj]

If you are buying brass new, but Starline.
Note: headspace is on the rim so you can trim all your cases to the same short length. However, this sounds like a LOT short.

[DCM]

As john said any brass that they load with the flex tip bullets will be short.
They tell you to trim it down for loading FTX in their manual also.

[ReloaderFred]

Yep, it's shorter, but still good brass. I just shot some in a match this past weekend and it works just fine. You just have to adjust your crimping die to get a good crimp, since I shoot mine in a Marlin 1894CB in .45 Colt.

Hope this helps.

Fred