303 British brass

I suppose you can find some around, but the Lee-Enfield is notorious for head separations with reloaded brass. I've had it as soon as the first reload (learned from that and there are ways to deal with if you start with new brass). It's your call, but I wouldn't use somebody else's brass just to save a few bucks.
 
I have 14 once fired sitting on my desk that I can't bring myself to throw out. Have an ad " to give away" on the EE and another forum ,shipping included. No one seems to want them.

PM me your address and I will ship them to you.

Eric
 
I have a couple hundred Imperial brass. I have reloaded some three times with not a problem. I guess it depends on the load you put in them. Normal price is about 1/2 of new brass.IMHO.
 
Below is a once fired factory loaded Winchester .303 British case (never reloaded) it stretched .009 in the base web area the first time it was fired in an Enfield with the headspace set at .067. You need someone elses fired .303 cases like you need a new hole in your head, buy some "NEW" Prvi Partizan cases, they are .010 thicker in the base, have a larger base diameter and thicker rims than "ANY" new manufacture of .303 cases.

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yes Prvi makes good 303 brass, I have at least 100 privi 303, but I'm working on IVI brass 92 - 93 I had about 475 that I have been shooting and full lenght sizing to destruction and I'm getting 4 plus loads out of them.

I have too many enfields that sorting the brass by rifle for fireforming to the chanbers is not worth my effort. If you only have 3 or 4 rifles then its easy enough to keep your fire formed brass seperated.
 
Two from the morgue. If I remember aright, both took place on second loading. The thin line just above the rim on the one is an 'almost separation' - came out of the chamber but just...

Privi brass works well and you can use rubber o-rings, but IMO, used brass is asking for trouble.

 
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It really depends on the brass. I have a good chamber on my ausy smle and I fire cast bullets I use every type of brass out there. And have never had a head seperation. I get the odd split neck but the brass I find at the range replaces them. I load it in batches of 250. (That's one 30 cal. ammo can full) I'm buying up more brass now so I can have 2 cans on the go and never run out of ammo. I pay no more then $30/100 and the last bunch I picked up came from 2 rifles about 1/2 was fired in a chamber with a defect but that will fire form out and the rest must have came from a Ross because it took almost no effert to resize. I have some imperial and ww2 brass that has be reloaded 10 or more times. Then when the neck splits I put it in the lath and turn it in to 44 Russian.
 
ATOM said:
but the Lee-Enfield is notorious for head separations with reloaded brass. I've had it as soon as the first reload
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Well that's extremley dissapointing to hear. I have probably 300 pieces of once fired Federal brass (fired from my Enfield) at home. Was just thinking to myself the other night I'll likely never need to by brass for this thing ever again with the amount I have.

I have yet to attempt to reload for the Enfield, should I not bother with this soft Federal brass I have for it?
 
I have IVI brass that I have loaded up to 8 times, and still fires fine. Brass is matched to a single rifle. I check each one before they go back into the reloading pile, and I think I've only ever tossed a handful, and those were "I'm not sure" not split or cracked, I was just thinking it better to be safe than sorry.
 
I found the Herters brass to be the best I've used. I neck size only and I am up to 6 reloads on them with no signs of head separation and/or excessive stretch.
I have never tried the Privi brass but don't feel the need to look for anything better than Herters. Good price too!
 
KDG said:
I found the Herters brass to be the best I've used. I neck size only and I am up to 6 reloads on them with no signs of head separation and/or excessive stretch.
I have never tried the Privi brass but don't feel the need to look for anything better than Herters. Good price too!
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The Herter's is really nice and you can't beat the price.
 
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