About a month ago I made a post describing how I recently bought a few cases of Hornady Frontier 55gr 5.56 and that those rounds blew out primers at an ABSURD rate. A few things have happened since then:

1. Hornady had me send them one box of 20rds for test fire, after a few days I followed up and was assured that those 20 rounds are fine (so that must mean that I was imagining the 20 blown primers I experienced in my BCM)

2. Just for funsies I had the rifle inspected by a gunsmith (yes, it is in headspace, no issues of any kind).

3. Hornady explained that since the one box that I returned was fine they would not give me a shipping label (they insist that the blown primers & ejector gouges must be my fault, we'll ignore the seven years and +10k rounds of nearly flawless performance from this BCM). They did explain that they would process a return IF I foot the bill for sending this 60lbs of shit back to them across the country (so let's figure in an extra $200 on top of the $900 I already paid). FWIW, I continue to shoot the rifle with other ammo, flawless as always.

4. I already had a dozen or so mags full of this ammo so I unloaded those & placed the loose rounds back into the box (not allowed!); they explained that loose rounds need to be packed back into ammo boxes? Every other company on the planned ships loose rounds packed into one box but I guess they're special. I'd be willing to go buy cheap 100rd reloading trays to ship them in if they weren't so shitty otherwise.

In conclusion, Hornady will sell you clearly out of spec ammunition & refuse to take care of you (by the way, I fired exactly 176 rounds in total with \~20 blown primers). They will assure you that blown primers are actually your fault, and that actually everyone else is wrong. Hornady can suck my dick from the back, I won't give them another dime and I will not longer stock their shit in my shop.