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brass shortage....please read....

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I think most would agree Lapua makes the best brass and it seems Remington and Winchester has left us reloaders high and dry.
I would encourage everyone to email lapua. It only takes a minute or two..
request
7mm rem mag
300 win mag
7mm saum
300 wsm
6mm dasher

request others if you wish..
If they get tons of emails maybe they will produce them...
 
I haven't seen 6mm Remington brass in four years! I honestly don't know what's going on with domestic manufacturers but they are missing market opportunities left and right. 6mm brass is but one example of a product that the American consumer wants but simply can't find. At present, anyone of the 3-4 American brass manufacturers could recognize that there are market opportunities that are simply being ignored. I wish I had the start up capital to enter this market. There are literally millions of dollars of potential sales that are being ignored. The reason that companies like Hornady survive producing substandard product is there is no competition.

I really wish I had the start up capital to enter the market. A company focused on putting out a quality product that could figure out how to produce low volume quantities of an array of product could make a fortune. The key is figuring out how to produce a quality product for dozens of cartridges while keeping fixed cost down. If someone could figure out how to minimize the cost of tooling and offer an array of product they would quickly monopolize the market place.
 
One only needs to visit a shooting range after a weekend of steady magdumping and see how much .223, .308, 9mm, .45ACP, etc. brass is laying on the ground to see why. The brass in calibers that are hard to get are niche brass. 6mm Rem, .17 Fireball, Bee, Wasp and others don't have the volume to change tooling, production lines, etc. Not rocket science, brass manufacturers are in business to make money, not cater to small volume production and an even smaller market of reloaders.
 
If they actually tried to make everything, there would be even lower availability(of any given cartridge brass) than we have today..
 
Norma makes quality brass in the calibers listed. If you have a belted mag. that leaves a lot for real precision anyway, hee, hee, LOL! Lapua is not what it used to be. My recent purchase of 6.5 CM small pocket brass left me a bit disappointed. Yes it's still the best there is but Norma is pretty darn good too. IMHO there a lot less reloaders than there used to be and the new kids on the block would rather just buy ammo and spend more time at the range!! And that's the reason for the brass shortage.
 
Ive bought several calibers of norma brass this past year. Ive been nothing but happy so far. But Im not done seeing how long ita go yet. Im starting to be able to feel a primer pocket seating change on a few, but not all this last reload, that was five loads on the brass. Its still not loose enough to even consider tossing yet though
 
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I approached Star-Line at 3 successive NRA Conventions, expressing interest in Precision cases in .308 Win.
Likewise, if they ever perfected a drawing/mfg system for the .308, that a 6.5 CM case would be Easy Peasy to add to that line.
Was essentially blown off by Reps and told that the .308 was dying and the CM was a flash in the pan.
To their credit, they did send me 20 .308 cases to work with about a year after the last show I attended in Louisville. I am encouraged, and hope they can continue the quality of this sample batch as well.
GotRDid.
 
onelastshot said:
I haven't seen 6mm Remington brass in four years! I honestly don't know what's going on with domestic manufacturers but they are missing market opportunities left and right. 6mm brass is but one example of a product that the American consumer wants but simply can't find. At present, anyone of the 3-4 American brass manufacturers could recognize that there are market opportunities that are simply being ignored. I wish I had the start up capital to enter this market. There are literally millions of dollars of potential sales that are being ignored. The reason that companies like Hornady survive producing substandard product is there is no competition.

I really wish I had the start up capital to enter the market. A company focused on putting out a quality product that could figure out how to produce low volume quantities of an array of product could make a fortune. The key is figuring out how to produce a quality product for dozens of cartridges while keeping fixed cost down. If someone could figure out how to minimize the cost of tooling and offer an array of product they would quickly monopolize the market place.
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Cabelas has some...
 
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mikecr said:
If they actually tried to make everything, there would be even lower availability(of any given cartridge brass) than we have today..
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Not true. Why do people not ever think of expansion? When my company struck fire did I say sorry other customers you have to suffer by getting less products. No I bought substantial machining capacity to fit the need. I did not over extend my company but I am able to meet demand.
 
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Not true. Why do people not ever think of expansion? When my company struck fire did I say sorry other customers you have to suffer by getting less products. No I bought substantial machining capacity to fit the need. I did not over extend my company but I am able to meet demand.
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The volume isn't enough to justify additional tooling and associated labor costs for what have become niche cartridges.
The first four listed by the OP are primarily hunting cartridges. The Dasher is a small volume niche cartridge. The other example posted, 6mm Remington, I've seen at ranges twice in the last ten years. Most hunters I see at the gun clubs do NOT reload. Neither do the AR guys. They simply don't have the time, don't need that much improvement in accuracy or can't see saving enough money to justify reloading. One person with a couple full blown custom rifles even told me the customs weren't worth their cost when his factory built 6.5 Creedmoor can shoot 1/2" groups at 100 yards with factory ammo. Having said that, with factory ammo being made with better components and more precision, the AVERAGE shooter is not convinced he needs to reload.
 
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Talk to Shiraz, he can tell you how many he had to order to get Lapua to make a new case.
 
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