Sorry don't see Dasher Legend on that thread. Just give me a shoots great or no better than Lapua. I'm easy.
Joe salt
Here ya go, it’s towards the end. I will copy and paste what Richard Schatz said. Obviously it shoots great if he won LG group agg in MT.
“I'll shut down my snow blower for a bit to add some input.
First thing, my Alpha Dasher brass is from a preproduction run.
I'm pointing this out in case there were any tweaks made between the preproduction and the regular run.
The Alpha Dasher brass is some of the most consistently uniform brass that I've had my hands on.
Weighing 50 pieces resulted in an 0.8 gr. total weight variation.
Checking neck thickness runout reminded me of the first Lapua 6BR brass I'd ever handled with my dial indicator needle never moving more than .0005".
I prepped the Alpha brass to the same dimensions that my Lapua brass is currently being run at.
I clean the necks to .0127' and after firing with a moderate load, I trimmed to 1.550" length.
Worth noting is that when I turn my Lapua necks to .0127', I have about an 80% cleanup, with the Alpha, I had about a 95% cleanup. Did I say this brass is uniform!!!
I then took 15 Alpha and 15 Lapua cases, all fired in the same chamber but not resized and did a volume comparison with Accurate 2230 ball powder.
My findings as follows:
The Alpha Dasher brass weighed an average of 5.5 gr. heavier than my Lapua brown box brass. (Sorry, I don't have any Blue boxDasher brass to use for this comparison)
Alpha Dasher brass held an average of 1.1 gr. less ball powder than my Lapua brass.
This difference in volume required a reduction in the charge weight from my Lapua loads of 0.2 gr. with H4895 and CCI 400 to put me back in my tune window with the Alpha cases.
I used this combo in the Montana 1000 yard season championship in August for all of my targets on Saturday and managed to clinch Heavy Gun group agg for the day.
Since then I haven't had decent enough conditions to do any more testing.
Maybe in a few months!!!
Meanwhile, back to the snow blower.”