6mm Remington Brass

[Pawnee Bill]

I have decided to resurrect my Jon Beanland custom 6mm Remington and shoot it for a while. The last time i messed with it I made some brass from RWS 6.5x57 Mauser & 7x57 Mauser. I just discovered some Hornady & Winchester brass. Which has anyone had good luck with the Hornady or Winchester brass?

 

[46and2]

I can't comment on Hornady or Winchester.
FWIW..
My 6AI brass was made from Norma 7×57 Mauser brass, it outlasted my barrel.
I would think your RWS would outlast Norma.

 

[mongo chicago]

I used both Win and Rem brass in my 6mm Rem. After 2 loadings the Winchester brass was not resizing reliably. Threw them all away and stayed with the Remingtons. So far - no problems after 6 loadings.

 

[Coonman300]

I’ve used the “old” Winchester brass with good luck. Just reading on here sounds like the new Winchester brass isn’t as good.

 

[Steve Blair]

I use Winchester 6mm Rem brass. For competition purposes, it required about 50% culling for various reasons. If you don't have strict requirements, you'll lose about 10% to bent case mouths, eccentric flash holes and shoulder folds. Still, pretty cheap compared to others and tough.

 

[AckleymanII]

I use Win Blue bag with great success, no experience with the red bag stuff. Shot lots of Rem brass in the 6 AI, 70g, AA2700, 14T, 26", 4100 fps, tiny groups. 10T Douglas dropped the formed brass load to 3980 fps, with great accuracy, same AI reamer used for both cases.

Many years I hunted coyotes with 6 Rem customs, 12T .030 freebore

60g Sierra with 50g of win 760, 210 primer, rem case, 4000 fps, 3/8" and below groups

80g Sierra Single shot pistol bullet, 80g Sierra blitz BT, 80g Berger with 42.0g of IMR 4064, Fed 210
3500 fps, 3/8" groups,12T 26" barrels. I quit using the bergers because they did not blow the coyotes up enough....I like BIG holes!

 

[std7mag]

I have & use Hornady 257 Roberts brass. Does just fine.
Honestly though, so does the 7X57 Mauser brass from PPU that i got on sale from Grafs a couple of years ago.

 

[David Milisock]

I have decided to resurrect my Jon Beanland custom 6mm Remington and shoot it for a while. The last time i messed with it I made some brass from RWS 6.5x57 Mauser & 7x57 Mauser. I just discovered some Hornady & Winchester brass. Which has anyone had good luck with the Hornady or Winchester brass?

The brass you discovered, is it 6MM brass?

I've been using Remington 6MM brass for 30 years, of course all of if was manufactured 30 years ago. Worked just fine.

 

[Kurz]

I just discovered some Hornady & Winchester brass. Which has anyone had good luck with the Hornady or Winchester brass?

I have recycled all of my Hornady brass in favor of better brass for my endeavors. In those good old days of a couple of years ago, when Winchester and Remington brass was plentiful and reasonably priced, I used a lot of Remington since it was affordable and I was creating some other cartridges from that basic brass. Winchester I tolerated by sorting and weighing.

Now though I use RWS brass to make the cases I need and don't waste time, effort and money on lesser quality brass. RWS makes great 6mm Rem. from 6.5x57 brass. Yes it costs more money but I get far more reloads than fooling around with Remington or Winchester. I recycled all my Hornady. Did I mention this already?

 

[PRR1957]

It comes down to luck of the draw when it comes to U.S. made brass cartridge cases. I’ve had Winchester, Remington, and Federal cartridge cases with one lot lasting multiple firings without problems, but the next batch from the same brand for a different cartridge that lasted only a few firings before the primer pockets grew over sized, or the cases stretched to much at body web junction. It doesn’t take much to getting the alloys wrong, and if an improper alloying of brass sheet stock is delivered to a cartridge case manufacture, it will be used just so as to not halt production just as long if the alloy is not to far out of spec. About the only brand that I can is say near absolute is Lapua and Peterson of which I’ve never had a failure, but it’s still brass which will eventually ware out. It also depends on the load if it’s particularly over pressured and resizing technique, along with the dies which could not be properly resizing. As mine as I like RCBS and Redding dies, I’ve had a couple that were not correctly manufactured and after a certain point in the resizing cycle, wouldn’t resize the cartridge cases properly. It’s brass, and until someone comes up with something better, it’s what we have to use.

 

[Plumsask]

I've used the red bag winchester on my 6 AI with a fairly stout load, im on the 11th firing and have only lost one case due to a split neck, I've been annealing every 4th firing. I did some pretty intense brass prep and it's been decent in the e.s. and s.d.

Lapua 8x57 is also an option

 

[Plumsask]

I used both Win and Rem brass in my 6mm Rem. After 2 loadings the Winchester brass was not resizing reliably. Threw them all away and stayed with the Remingtons. So far - no problems after 6 loadings.

Can you expand on what resizing issues you had with it? Thanks

 

[AckleymanII]

Sounds like he needed to adjust his die further down or grind .003 off the shell holder. Perhaps headspaced on the short side making the sizing a tad bit problem. Also, difference in reamers could be an issue.

 

[mongo chicago]

Can you expand on what resizing issues you had with it? Thanks

The brass wouldn't chamber. After each reloading, there was a few more. In contrast, using the same dies, no problem with the Remington brass

 

[pirate ammo]

Grafs showing PPU 6mm brass in stock.

 

[pintopete]

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[Brians356]

I posted this two years ago:

I bought two bags of 6mm Rem at the local Cabela's store. There were enough deformed cases, and cases with large neck wall variance, that I culled exactly 50% of them. The rejects refilled one bag, which I returned to the store for a cheerful refund! That would be a less practical approach if you had to pay to ship the culls back to Cabela's online store (and I'm not sure they would refund in that scenario.) But it also highlights the low quality of Hornady W-W brass.
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[Steve Blair]

I bought two bags of 6mm Rem at the local Cabela's store. There were enough deformed cases, and cases with large neck wall variance, that I culled exactly 50% of them. The rejects refilled one bag, which I returned to the store for a cheerful refund! That would be a less practical approach if you had to pay to ship the culls back to Cabela's online store (and I'm not sure they would refund in that scenario.) But it also highlights the low quality of Hornady brass.
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If you don't measure it, you don't know.

 

[NorCalMikie]

If you don't measure it, you don't know.

SO, you measuring size of the case or the dents?? Crap is Crap!!

 

[Steve Blair]

SO, you measuring size of the case or the dents?? Crap is Crap!!

The Winchester brass I sorted for defects and case wall runout had 50% cull rate. But, once sorted, it shot very well and was fairly tough. Purchase price was cheap, so 50% loss was acceptable to me. For context; I measure case wall runout on 100% of my competition cases, regardless source.