338 Win Winchester Brass

[truck driver]

Found some 338 Win brand brass and was wonder what the thoughts are on the quality of Win Brand brass as compared to Hornady and others.
Price is $38 per 50ct.

 

[EastTNHunter]

I prefer the Winchester over the Hornady, but the QC on Winchester and Remington brass has been lacking on the last few batches that I have gotten recently.

 

[JD338]

Roger,

I have always preferred Winchester brass to Remington, Federal or Hornady brass.
Long life and great accuracy are the normal.

JD338

 

[truck driver]

I prefer the Winchester over the Hornady, but the QC on Winchester and Remington brass has been lacking on the last few batches that I have gotten recently.

as far as QC problems what have you seen with Win brass?
I like Nosler brass but don't like the price and right now you can only get first run 50ct for $80 or more and get the Win Brass 100ct for less.
Somewhere in my linage I must have some Scotchman in me cause I'm always looking for a deal cheap. :grin:

 

[jimbires]

I prefer win brass over rem in my 7mm rem mag . win brass the primer pockets held up much better than rem brass . I've never used hornady .

 

[truck driver]

I prefer win brass over rem in my 7mm rem mag . win brass the primer pockets held up much better than rem brass . I've never used hornady .

I just ordered the Win brass so I'll see how it works.

 

[elkhunternm]

Wish Winchester would offer brass in the .375 H&H.

Use Winchester brass in my .270 Winchester and so far no problems.

 

[Divernhunter]

I have used win 338 brass and it was fine. I did sort it as to weight after trimming it, chamfer it, debur flash holes. Some I even uniformed primer pockets. That gave me very accurate loads.
Without doing the above I got very acceptable groups also.

 

[SJB358]

I used and still use Winchester quite a lot. It's tough stuff. Their QC stinks a little with the amount of culls you get but the bulk is usable. They will send replacements for the bad pieces if you let them know the lot number though.

 

[EastTNHunter]

I've had issues with short, rough, and out of square necks

 

[preacher]

I like Winchester brass, when I can find it. I always prep my cases anyhow, if needed, and a few culls are no big deal...to me. I also really like Remington brass, and of course, RWS, Lapua, Norma and Nosler, in that order. I have had iffy results from Hornady and Federal is very soft in many of the rinds I've tried it in, except the 338 federal. I don't know why, but it holds up very well.

 

[Guy Miner]

Did real well in 600 yard rifle matches, using Winchester brass for my .308 Win.

Lapua was better, but a LOT more expensive. Winchester was just fine after a little brass prep.

Guy

 

[truck driver]

The Win brass arrived the other day and I opened the bag to inspect it and it was in just as good of shape as the Nosler seconds brass I have gotten lately with bent case mouths and dents so that was no big deal and I did find one piece that was trash due to the neck being split.
I took the tapered expander button out of my 35W/AI die and just ran the brass up on it enough to straighten the case mouths and then sized all the brass. I did find some tight necks that were tight going into the sizer die and over the 338 expander button.
The flash hole on the brass looks pretty good and I don't see any burs that need to be removed but I will pick up a deburring tool just to have it handy.