From what I have read here in searching the subject the gold box stuff is all non match marked and presumably not lapua production. Curious about blue box being all match headstamp.I've got some Lapua 222 cases from a seller on AS, came in the gold boxes. None say Match on them.
You're probably fine. The only brass I know of that Lapua outsourced was years ago they had someone make 300 Win mag brass for them but it said lapua on it.Never knew Lapua outsourced any of their production. So, if it doesn't have "MATCH" stamped on it, and came in the gold box, it's not actually made by Lapua? And not any better than other brands, like RP or Win? That's disappointing to hear. I guess I overpaid for brass, could have purchased Starline and done better.
Hmm..I have both...gold box match and blue box plain and both are Lapua quality. So..how is that for a definitive maybe?