Problems with Hornady Brass?

Has anyone had any problems with Hornady brass, specifically in 6 or 6.5 CM? A friend and I were shooting 6mm CM's the other afternoon (his was a Savage, mine a Howa) and he kept blowing primers. He was using a mid range load of Varget. We were both using WLR's and he was using Hornady brass (second loading) while I was using Starline. I've have noticed that after 3 or 4 loading's with Hornady brass some of my primers were lose, several even fell out. That's why I switched to Starline and Lapua. After a bit of checking around online I found a few other remarks of Hornady brass with lose primer pockets and blown primers. When I did a search on what the PRS/BR/F-class pros were using they didn't mention brass but I found that none were winning with Hornady bullets. They were using Berger's and Sierra's, which was a bit surprising.

On 2nd and 3rd loadings in 30-06 (Garand). Primer pockets seem ok, but have had the cases split on a handful of them. Rims get banged up oretty good too to where they dont want to easily go into a case gauge. Once these get anither loading or two, Ill scrap em and move on to win cases I got for cheap on clearance.

Hornady "match" 308 has disappointed me many times. Primarily split necks.

So, there may be something to this. I've been using Starline and Winchester and I'm up to 6 loading's on some of it and still doing ok. I may forego future use with Hornady.

The only Hornady brass I've used was 308 and I had the opposite problem-- the primer pockets were very tight.

Jabroni said:

On 2nd and 3rd loadings in 30-06 (Garand). Primer pockets seem ok, but have had the cases split on a handful of them. Rims get banged up oretty good too to where they dont want to easily go into a case gauge

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+1. Same issues using Hornady brass in my M1's.

I've been shopping for 6.5 Grendel brass and this has come up a couple of times when I look at Hornady brass. I honestly didn't think there was much to it but after seeing this thread I'm glad I haven't bought any yet.

What little Hornady brass I have used is hard and brittle. A session with the torch annealing the necks cured my problems with errant pressures. Hope it works for you.

Hornady large primers will get loose after a few shots. I’ve had some run 7+ fine and some start getting loose after 2-3 firings.
Few things might be causing it, large firing pin hole. I had to get my bergara bushed. Try using magnum primers, they’ll handle the pressure better. Also, using small primer brass helps too.

Varget isn’t used very much in this calibers. Not sure if that’s causing pressure spikes or not?