The holy Grail of components and forums

[Tangent]

Reduce the variables, saves time and often money on the reduced effort finding a good load.

 

[rlporter507]

10 years ago I was shooting winchester brass. sorting it by weight, neck thickness. Ordered 1K from Sinclair, and inspecting it, flash holes off center, and not round. Sent it back pronto. switched to lapua and never looked back. I have seen new winchester brass at the store, still looks the same. Even saw some here for sale awhile back, same problem. I dont understand why they just dont fix the machine to produce better brass. I have some norma brass, and it measured out just as good as lapua. I had a 221 fire ball, at the time could only get Remington brass for it, was not up to lapua quality. I have peterson brass, measures out better than lapua for weight and neck thickness. for the price difference, if Im going to spend all the time to get a good load, better than I can buy factory, its not worth it to use bad components. Ive shot a lot of serria bullets, did well with them, but when you put a measure tool on them you can wonder why do they shoot as well as they do not being that consistent. Bergers are much more consistent, weight, base to ojive, OAL, and they shoot more X's. If your trying to hit a deer at 100 yards, bad brass and cheap bullets will do the job, and if your target is a paper plate, same thing. But if your trying to get the most from your rifle, you cannot cheap out on barrels, bullets, and brass. It all comes down to what you are happy with. I'll never be happy until they all go thru the same hole. Damn the cost, it's whats on paper that counts.

 

[joshb]

Shooting is my hobby. I like to shoot a lot of different guns. Some of them are old military, some are hunting type rifles, lever actions, etc. and some are full blown customs. I shoot all kinds of bullets and brass in the lesser guns. I use Lapua brass and Lapua ,Berger or custom bullets in the custom guns. Sometimes I’ll try Sierras or Barnes in the customs, just to see if they’ll shoot.

 

[wywindsor]

Thanks for all the replies. Knowing this is a loaded question, I respect all the answer's. You have to believe that all the components you use work. I hate to read where one person will only shoot what they have read about. Not what they have experience in. For me I have had good luck with alpha 6gt brass, adg and peterson 6mm creedmoor. 6.5 prc Lapua and 300 prc lapua and adg.

Some time ago I was shooting a 300 win. The federal brass from factory load was a wonder. 10 to 15 grains apart spent. Last check fromseveral boxes shot by my son and son in law was 2 to 3 grains in 100 rounds. As both of them have these calibers were about to find out if this brass will perform.

 

[wright brothers]

Was over near the Peterson biz the other week but they were closed that week day.
Do I "need" new brass? No but want some.
Shooting and loading the same cal all my life has me a pile of rem and win. Have a small amount of fed brass that did well but that could just be in my head. Of those I reach for the rem first.
If I was to go fresh build I would go premium brass.
I read on here somewhere that new barrel with x amount of brass, bullets, primers and powder will last the life of said barrel.
I should have wrote that formula down.

 

[R.Morehouse]

Premium brass and custom dies help with this, also, how hot you load goes a long way to preserving your primer pockets.

Regards
Rick

 

[wright brothers]

How to know when brass is done has been on my mind.
Have one lot that is pretty well broken in.
In the past I scrapped those.
Times have changed, as always.
Probably load and hoard those ones.