Quality of Prvi Partizan brass
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My experience is limited to 9.3x63. The walls and necks are very uniform (as in VERY uniform), they stand up to pressure well. The primer pockets have been loose from the get go but have not opened up any more after five or six firings. I believe they were made for Eastern Block primers which I have found to be slightly larger than the ones we are used to in the States. Have yet to wear them out as I do not shoot that rifle all that much but I am thinking about trying their .308 cases next time I am buying some.
I neck up their 25-06 to 6.5 and use it in both my 6.5-06 and a 6.5-06 AI . As stated above, it's pretty good brass.
I was running other name brass before but the Prvi seems to hold up better.
I am also running their brass in my 260 AI. I necked up their 243 brass and went from there. Some of it is on its 7th loading with no issues. Annealed every 3 firings or so.
I was running other name brass before but the Prvi seems to hold up better.
I am also running their brass in my 260 AI. I necked up their 243 brass and went from there. Some of it is on its 7th loading with no issues. Annealed every 3 firings or so.
Ive used it in 762X54r, 556, 9mm, and 762X51. I have seen no problems with it, but it seems less refined than some other. For example the 308/762 mil style ammo primer crimps seem more of a promise than A full crimp. The 762x54r is the only one Ive purchased as virgin brass and after 6 or firings it hasnot shown any excess expansion or wear. Primer pockets are fine w/ Tula/W primers. This was fired in 91/30 Moisins whose chambers are not the most precise even among military arms. The repeatable accuracy with 3 rifles was more than acceptable. The price was very good also(especialy compared with Lapua) 41$v107
I got a surprise last summer with Privi Partizan 308 cases. If you shoot them near the SAAMI pressure limits the primer pocket gets looser in 4 to 5 firings. I moved to wolf primers and to a lower node and kept firing. At the lower node, estimated at 55K psi; about 6 out of 50 tore the necks after 40 to 50 firings. After 75 to 100 firings I retired about 30 cases due to loose primer pockets. Basically I took 50 cases and fired them 4500 to 5000 times. All in all I had a good experience with them. Now I'm shooting Lapua Palma brass at SAAMI pressure limit in a different gun. It's good brass but I'm not getting the life I got from Privi Partizan last summer.
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PRVI is good brass but definitely does not have the refinements that Lapua has. I anneal, uniform the primer pockets, uniform the flash holes, and trim to square up the mouths. It doesn't have the longevity of Lapua but much cheaper and certainly more available.
AckleymanII
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I went to win and win mag primers in the 7x57 brass that I am shooting, now the pockets are tight again.
Use Privi for .223 and 7.5 Swiss. I have 6 loads so far on the .223 (annealed after 5) with no issues. I uniform all primer pockets & deburr flash holes. Also neck turn. Have not had any issues as yet. Same goes for the 7.5 Swiss although I only have 4 loads of that one. Slowly converting from Federal & Remington to Privi on all weapons 
Holy moly!!!! I thought it wasn't possible to get more than 15-20 firings from a case. How often did you anneal them?
I agree, it's not Lapua, but I use it in semi autos and it's held up fine. I don't mind losing a few cases here or there in the grass but I'd search till I was blue in the face if it was Lapua.
I was annealing almost every time I reloaded the brass. I can't say that frequency of annealing produces better targets. But I did notice better targets when I went from not annealing at all to annealing. So I decided to anneal every time. I might get just as good targets by annealing every two to four firings, but its one more thing to remember or write down. And I'm not as good at meticulousness as my fellow shooters.
The .223 PPU brass I've worked with was annealed at the factory before the first firing. Quality is higher than Lake City and most domestic stuff (Fed, Win, R-P), but lower than Lapua.
CJ6
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4500-5000 times I call BS on that.
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