Is this signs of case head separation?

[Ryder Bohannon]

This is 6.5 Creedmoor Hornady Brass that’s only been fired twice. It looks like there’s a ring around the webbing but there shouldn’t be signs of case head separation after only 2 firings. Here’s 3 different pieces of brass but the whole batch looks like this. Should I toss this brass and get new brass?

I normally use lapua and haven’t had any signs of case head separation after a couple of firings but just figured I’d use some of this Hornady brass I had left over from factory ammo.

 

[Huskydriver]

Nope that's the end of where your sizing die stops sizing. You need to get a paperclip or some type of thin stiff wire to run up and down the inside of the case. I use a modified dental pick.

You will feel a trench forming in the brass a tad lower than that line when you are starting to have the web thin out.

I also use a cheap bore scope from Amazon that hooks to my phone for like 15 bucks that I can stick in there and see the dip forming.

When in serious doubt cross section the case long ways and see for yourself. If all the brass in the lot have been subjected to the same load chances are most of them will be close to going at the same time.

 

[Mxridr]

It will look like this. 8 firings Norma brass 6.5

 

[918v]

If you’re only getting 8 firings out of a case then you’re bumping the shoulder too much.

 

[918v]

This is 6.5 Creedmoor Hornady Brass that’s only been fired twice. It looks like there’s a ring around the webbing but there shouldn’t be signs of case head separation after only 2 firings. Here’s 3 different pieces of brass but the whole batch looks like this. Should I toss this brass and get new brass?

I normally use lapua and haven’t had any signs of case head separation after a couple of firings but just figured I’d use some of this Hornady brass I had left over from factory ammo.

Normal looking brass, no hs.