RWS and Lapua cases if cared for properly and annealed in later life will often outlive the barrels they're shot in.Any seasoned reloader will tell you how much of a pain it is to find a military crimp on a primer pocket while reloading ammo. Winchester and Remington cases, unless from the white box or green and orange box days are not worth the packaging they come in. I can never understand the way some shooters think.
So that is 50 reloads on RWS cases at $2 each. Don't know the outcome there but 50 cases i prepped for one match barrel saw the barrel die at 2500 rounds using the same 50 cases through the entirety. He went on to buy Win brass at roughly the same price i was offering the RWS brass for. I even offered some long discontinued Lapua cases i had at a reasonable price. I replied saying i had RWS weight batched cases in bags of a 100 count that i had imported from the US for a BR rifle i was using at the time. Some time back a young fellow was chasing 300 WM brass on another forum. He said he was putting aside the remainder of 300 Winchester cases to return and wouldn’t be buying again. Later that day - the shop rang and said he’d had to go into 4 different new bags(50 per bag) to find 25 cases that he would consider “good”. I took photos and sent to shop - who said, they were Very disappointed. TassieTiger wrote:6 months ago, I bought some Winchester 300 wm brass from a vic gun shop.Ģ0 out of the 50 cases were very poor - neck concentricity, damaged bodies, Etc. Your post may only have been 2 cents worth but in my opinion it was of more value than most of the posts on this thread.Īlthough I tend not to be too critical of Winchester or any other brass for that matter, as what may be considered as drawbacks in some circumstances may be considered useful features in other circumstances. This brass is more expensive to buy but tends to be of more consistent uniformity. Lapua and Norma if you are serious about shooting, such as Comp and serious target. Is it for competition, or for more accuracy or just trying something new or to save $.Īlso what caliber you want to reload for.įor plinking at the range, I have found most brands are ok, but I concur with others who have tried Winchester brass and I tend to steal away from it only because it has had a short life expectancy for me.Īlso I have had issues reloading Sellier and bellot, I have had issues with their primer pockets.įor the average fellow, I believe the ADI brass in 223 and 308 is good. To answer your question, I would ask the reason you want to reload these cases. 243 with Lapua brass and Scenars in 107 gn.I will quiz him next time I go and am assuming he has had a 1 8 barrel fitted as my 1 12 22 inch barrel will probably not stabilize that weight.I am going to use Remington brass in the 7mm Rem Mag as I took my son last time and he wanted recoil so I gave him 175 gn Remington Corelokt to do the detail with so now I have once fired brass for that as well. 243 is a BRNO and it out groups my HOWA at the moment.Like I said we are starting to develop so good brass is essential.One of the club members runs a.
243 in my scrap bin as some of it is probably from 1978 when my buddy first started hunting in Queensland and very dirty.I have all his reloading stuff as he has passed on and now I take his son out.His old. 243 for years as it is good enough however I am have started going to a club that shoots 100-600 yards and I am load developing.I have thrown all the Winchester. 243 was common so I have 100s of once fired brass and the Highland or PPU was common in the local shop.I made field grade ammo for the. I will add to that I took a lot of mates shooting in the Gascoyne and.