Identify this brass

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Picked up a whole bunch of this
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What I noticed is its quite a bit harder to resize then other brands. Primers seem to go in slightly harder. While trimming some were a hard fit in my lee case trimmer shell holder.
Can anybody tell me anything about this brand of brass whatever it may be.
Thanks
 
Also commonly referred to as PPU. Full name is Prvi Partizan.
Since the case uses the cyrillic alphabet instead of the latin alphabet means it's from before a certain year. I don't remember the year off hand but I believe it was only a few years ago they switched to latin letters.

It's good brass. I have a bunch of it in 6.5x55 and 7.62x54R.

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Also, it's a 243 Winchester ;)
 
I stopped using Winchester and have replaced it with Prvi.

Good brass - tight primer pockets, tends to have high powder capacity and uses correct dimensions for "military" brass, e.g. 303 Brit rim thickness and 6.5X55 base diameter.
 
got some in 308, but when im resizing I am splitting necks.... the shoulder region is a different colour to the base.. think that's normal for ppu?

WL
 
WhelanLad said:
got some in 308, but when im resizing I am splitting necks.... the shoulder region is a different colour to the base.. think that's normal for ppu?

WL
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All brass is annealed at several stages during its manufacture, but some brass is not polished as the last step to make the colour of the brass consistent, i.e. for cosmetic reasons. It's not a sign of "cheap" brass - my Lapua 338 LM brass has that "discoloration".
 
Old Priv brass is incredibly thick. That being said you maybe want to water test the volume, I thinking there is likely less space in there and thus less room for expansion of gases. Could have an effect on consistency.
 
WhelanLad said:
got some in 308, but when im resizing I am splitting necks.... the shoulder region is a different colour to the base.. think that's normal for ppu?

WL
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The North American market (Yanks...) tend to want all shiny brass. European makers tend to leave the annealing colours intact, perhaps as a sign that it has been properly annealed.
 
fraserdw said:
Old Priv brass is incredibly thick. That being said you maybe want to water test the volume, I thinking there is likely less space in there and thus less room for expansion of gases. Could have an effect on consistency.
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I use a lot of PPU brass and they usally are very close to Lapua as per volume is involved.
 
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