How many Lapua cases do you usually purchase when you start load development?

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I'm wondering what is the average amount of Lapua cases people buy when they start load development for a specific rifle. 100, 200, 300?

What process do you usually go through? First fire all of them and then second fire all of them, etc? Or first fire 100, second fire the same 100, etc etc and keep the rest unfired for later?
 
On my .308 I purchased x300 Lapua initially.
And cycled them all at once.
Once they we’re all 7x fires purchased another x300 and cycling them all at once.
Still use my initial 7F for gongs and practices, my 1F is for matches.

Now that I’m starting a new caliber, I’ll buy and cycle them in batches of 200 instead.
Batches of 300 is too much.
 
I have bought a case of 200 Lapua Scenar 167 gr and Lapua170 gr Lockload from Hirsh ( if you figure out the price of the case vs the whole round, it's worth to start with the factory ammo.

I shoot half of them then i realoded for my FNAR Competition, still have 100 factory ammo Lapua left.:dancingbanana:


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200 for me is a good number. I keep 200 for each of my 3 rifle calibers. Keeps me from having to reload all the time.
 
Depends, what kind of shooting do you do? If you are going to do some sort of competitive shooting, you'll obviously want more then what you will shoot in a normal match. I shoot PRS, and a normal weekend match is 200 rounds, so I started with 300.
If you are just going to do casual long range plinking, then 200 is plenty.
I process my brass in batches of 50-60, depending on the size of the MTM case.
 
I buy 400 or 500. I use 200 right off the get go to cycle through while chasing down the best load and accuracy loads once found. After about 15 reloads on each, I start with 100 new ones for accuracy loads, and keep the older ones for foulers and more casual shooting/plinking/gongs.
 
Alpheus said:
Depends, what kind of shooting do you do? If you are going to do some sort of competitive shooting, you'll obviously want more then what you will shoot in a normal match. I shoot PRS, and a normal weekend match is 200 rounds, so I started with 300.
If you are just going to do casual long range plinking, then 200 is plenty.
I process my brass in batches of 50-60, depending on the size of the MTM case.
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What matches need 200 rounds?
 
Varies a bit as to how much brass I buy, I start with 100 for most guns, that'll last quite a while, 25 for load development initially, more if needed after 2 rounds. For my varmint guns, 300, as I have used that much in a weekend on gophers. For oddball cartridges that are hard to get, as many as I can come up with, and more if I find them, down the road. One example would be my 30R Blaser, started with 2 boxes factory, and 160 brass, got 5 more boxes of factory a while later, then a couple more of brass, and a couple more boxes of factory, and in the last year, 3 more of factory. At the moment there are 50 allocated to load development, have 60 left of the original factory 180gr that I use for hunting, until I sort out the load for it, and I use the other factory ones I acquired as plinkers and baselines for info. This is for a double rifle, so load development is a lot different than a single barrel. And there is only one accessible brass and ammo mfgr, RWS in Germany. And at the time I got the gun, RWS changed the bullet lines very shortly after, so, what it was regulated with, is NLA.
 
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