Quality brass for 7mm SAUM

[gene pool]

I am just starting the break-in of my new 7mm SAUM. My experience thus far with 7 SAUM Remington brass has not been the best, but I am making it work.

Does anyone make a "quality" brass for 7mm SAUM?

Thank you,
Gene Pool

 

[Preacher]

No one but Remington makes that stuff.. I have never noticed a bad problem with any of my 7 mm SAUM brass from them... I do the normal procedure with all new brass and toss the bad ones in a box to be used for gauges, not to many cases in that box though..

 

[jamesh]

Neck down Nosler 300 SAUM brass, that's what I do.

James

 

[BigKev]

Nosler makes 7 RSAUM Brass Part # 10184, costs about $ 2.00 per round depending upon who you purchase it from, I bought their 300 RSAUM and necked it down to 7 mm. I use it for 1000 yard benchrest competition and to dates it's worked out fine for me.

 

[Preacher]

Nosler is pretty darn expensive when put up against Remingtons brass.....

 

[BigKev]

With all due respect regarding the cost of Nosler brass, I've got close to $ 20,000.00 dollars in several benchrest guns that both my wife I and my kids compete with, it costs approximately $ 100.00 in gas (round trip) to the 1,000 yard range that I shoot at every two weeks along with $ 40.00 dollars worth of entrance fees and 4 hours of my time in travel (each way) so in looking at this from a financial stand point the cost of brass even at $ 2.00 a piece is a blessing. If I competed for financial reasons I'd be a hell of a lot thinner, and it should be further clarified that the only reason that I use Nosler brass is that LAPUA doesn't currently offer 7 RSAUM brass because if they did I would have chosen their brass instead.

 

[FroggyOne2]

BigKev,

Not everyone has the resources like you have sir.. some ppl love to shoot and have fun, it is nothing but a hobby for them. Yes some consider it a serious hobby, but not everyone has a large budget. I am one of those budget shooters, but I budget everything else out in order to afford to shoot. That means I don't have a lot of other things or toys. Nor do I go out to eat, spend money at the movies, watch how often I drive to keep more gas in the car, skip other nice things that I would love to have. I am one of those guys, that if I want something, I have to sell something. So to a lot of shooters, 2 bucks a case is a lot of money friend.

knee deep!

 

[BigKev]

Contrary to your post I too am on a budget, and I guess I guess my point was misconstrued. I should have predicated my post by saying that I tried the "inexpensive" route of having to buy 300 + cases only to spend countless hours weighing and sorting through the "less expensive brass" so as to end up with 80 or so cases that I felt were worth the time to continue reworking until I was satisfied. The "less expensive brass" shot well but in the long run I found that I got better results (SD & ES) with the "slightly more expensive brass" and secondly and more important I didn't have to spend anywhere near as much time "readying" brass for shooting which I felt offset the nominal cost difference. I would agree that if one wasn't reloading then the cost difference would be a bigger factor in making ones selection and for what its worth I do not use the "most expensive" brass I originally posted about, I merely provided the Nosler part # for the OP's use.

 

[FroggyOne2]

Fair enough

 

[CZ550]

Had an 7 RSAUM that I used Rem brass, it shot pretty darn well with that crappy Rem brass. Good enough I never opened the 2 boxes of Nosler I paid out the nose for.

 

[Mark Walker in TX]

As noted by an earlier poster, I also use Norma 300 SAUM brass necked down to 7mm. It's about $1.20 a case and has worked well for me so far...

 

[lurcher]

aside from fairly big variations in weight between batches (I have seen rem saum brass vary between 208-224grains across different batches) rem brass has been OK for me.

If, like me you are merely hunting with a saum and poverty stricken! and you don't want to neck turn brass, get a redding body bump die and take a 300wsm lee collet die and swap the mandrel for a 7mm (the 300 collet still seems to work fine). Size by bumping 1 thou and size the necks with the collet die.To vary neck tension get some mandrels 1 or 2 thou smaller from LEE. They are cheap.