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Offline gryphon

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Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« on: August 01, 2014, 02:28:48 PM »
Some cartridges from Lot # 3141635 may exhibit light or no powder charges. Use of this product may result in firearm damage and or personal injury.

http://www.hornady.com/in-the-news/latest-news/product-recall-lot-3141635

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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2014, 07:06:15 AM »
Some cartridges from Lot # 3141635 may exhibit light or no powder charges. Use of this product may result in firearm damage and or personal injury.

http://www.hornady.com/in-the-news/latest-news/product-recall-lot-3141635

Light or NO POWDER charges!!! Uhm that's a pretty big "F" up from a ammo maker. Someone is in a world of trouble over at hornady.

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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2014, 11:05:08 AM »
And if you loaded your firearm and threw away the box???

Guess I'll be shooting it off during practice :(

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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2014, 11:28:31 AM »
And if you loaded your firearm and threw away the box???

Guess I'll be shooting it off during practice :(

Watch out for squibs.

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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2014, 11:43:39 AM »
And if you loaded your firearm and threw away the box???

Guess I'll be shooting it off during practice :(

I keep all my old boxes and still couldn't tell you which one my carry rounds came from.  I'd venture to say the rounds I carry are from 4-5 different boxes due to loading and unloading mags at the range.

I'd only be able to tell if I had rounds from that lot at some point in time.
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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2014, 11:48:01 AM »
I keep all my old boxes and still couldn't tell you which one my carry rounds came from.  I'd venture to say the rounds I carry are from 4-5 different boxes due to loading and unloading mags at the range.

I'd only be able to tell if I had rounds from that lot at some point in time.

I assume the casing and bullet weights should be consistent enough to weigh each round to see if one is severely under weight right?

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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2014, 11:56:02 AM »

I assume the casing and bullet weights should be consistent enough to weigh each round to see if one is severely under weight right?

Good call. That should work for Part Deux as well.

Now where did I put my coke scale?
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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2014, 12:15:59 PM »

Now where did I put my coke scale?

Sold mine for crack or I'd let you borrow mine.

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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2014, 09:21:21 PM »
I have several empty boxes... not sure if I saved all of them.  Some rnds still in one of the boxes, looks to be pre recall.  Weighing them is a good idea.

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Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2014, 10:06:03 AM »
Good call. That should work for Part Deux as well.

Now where did I put my coke scale?

I hear Su Casa in Lansing on Maple and Cedar sells scales capable of fine, light measurements...

I hear they also have a fine blade collection and an assortment of jewelry.
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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2014, 12:36:28 PM »
I hear Su Casa in Lansing on Maple and Cedar sells scales capable of fine, light measurements...

I hear they also have a fine blade collection and an assortment of jewelry.

im sure they also have various "tobacco" pipes lol

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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2014, 01:45:35 PM »

Unfortunately my powder scale is a Lee, made to weigh powder, not completed rounds with 200+grain bullets in them.

Used to be able to get Ohaus lab balances on eBay for $50 or less. Haven't looked in a long time but probably still the case.
I picked up a old green single pan (old, older than me in fact) and a modern beige double pan that way.

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It would be great for comparing loaded rounds, just zero it and put a round on the right pan and compare other rounds by putting them on the left pan.
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Re: Hornady Critical Duty ammo recall
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2014, 05:16:21 PM »
I still have an Ohaus triple beam from the 70's.  I used it for, um, science experiments.