wvbuckbuster
Handloader
- Nov 5, 2015
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Of the brands FC, Remington, Winchester and Hornady how would you rate them? No1 as best. No 4 the worst. Not counting Norma, Lapua, Peterson and the like just common everyday brass. Dan.
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Jim, agree with you, the old blue bag Winchester is good stuff.It's been awhile since I've used this brass ,.when I did use it my preferred brand was blue bag Win . I always had good luck with it . Rem and Fed were to soft for me . I loosened the primer pockets in just a couple cycles . I don't have much experience with Hornady . I have a batch , but not many cycles on it . years back there was frontier brass . if I remember right it was an offspring of Hornady . that brass was pretty rough stuff . it held powder and bullets , and that's about all I can say about it . when I was shooting bullseye, I used a fair amount of starline in my 45acp , it held up well . I'm not a fan of nosler brass .
Jim, agree with you, the old blue bag Winchester is good stuff.
Don't know what to say about your results with Rem brass. Not doubting you but I haven't experienced the same.
Only thing I can say is I've used exclusively once fired factory brass........not purchased bulk brass. Without annealing it seems too brittle and split necks will show up first.
With annealing that goes away and I get a high number of reloads out of them until eventually they get tossed because of the thin stretch line ahead of the web. I don't toss any because of loose primer pockets.
I don't run overpressure but run up at the top with some loads.......particularly in 30-06 and 6mm.