7mm08 brass typically hard to find?

This is a blatant case of spend more up front to save more in the long run...
Lapua is $115/100, Hornady $50/50?
Thats a mere 15 cents per case difference - factor 25% more loads (not to mention a better product) in Lapua over Hornady brass (more likely 50% more loads)...
Lapua is the cheaper brass if you factor it in over its loading lifespan - I would guess it would be half the cost of Hornady over its lifespan.
Plus it is headstamped correctly, plus you can shoot tailored loads right away as opposed to factory stuff.
 
chrismc said:
This is a blatant case of spend more up front to save more in the long run...
Lapua is $115/100, Hornady $50/50?
Thats a mere 15 cents per case difference - factor 25% more loads (not to mention a better product) in Lapua over Hornady brass (more likely 50% more loads)...
Lapua is the cheaper brass if you factor it in over its loading lifespan - I would guess it would be half the cost of Hornady over its lifespan.
Plus it is headstamped correctly, plus you can shoot tailored loads right away as opposed to factory stuff.
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I have never understood why some people want to use lesser quality brass, that actually costs them as much or more, over the life of the brass.

Hornady is just starting to produce 7.08 case (available in the US - lists at 50 bucks US for 50 cases) about the same price as Nosler brass which typically sells for about twice the cost of Win brass.
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You do realize that $50US for 50 cases, is around $125 Can for 100 cases, which is more expensive than Lapua?
 
I have never understood why some people want to use lesser quality brass, that actually costs them as much or more, over the life of the brass.
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Ideally most of us would like to just use 1f cases we pickup at the range for our plinking and hunting rifles... Free is free... Everything else costs money.
 
Hotwheels81 said:
Ideally most of us would like to just use 1f cases we pickup at the range for our plinking and hunting rifles... Free is free... Everything else costs money.
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If you know for a fact that it's once fired factory loads, and you can get a fair amount of the same brand , and if it hasn't been stretched in an oversized chamber, free is a good thing. I have had people give me brass that was supposedly once fired factory brass, but it obviously had been reloaded(primers were the wrong color), and by someone that had no clue, as the primers were flat. I tossed it all in the garbage, and watched someone else dig it back out.
 
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