Brass for 300 win mag

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Good Morning Gentlemen. First I want to say thank you to everyone on this site. I am going to start reloading my own shells. I have been reading many of the posts here and have come across some great advice. First thing I purchased is a copy of the ABCs of reloading. I have read it twice, going to start on the third time later this week. I will be loading for my 300 win mag and have an assortment of brass, Winchester, Federal, Remington and Hornady, all brass is once fired (the Hornady brass came from my rifle).

Have a question about the quality of the brass. From the types that I have what do you guys think? Are thedy all pretty much the same quality? is one better than the others? I have read a few reviews about the Winchester brass but how does the Federal, Remington and Hornady brass compare? I will be loading for hunting, no target shooting for this guy.

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Winchester is good, Federal is too soft. The .300 usually shoots best with hot loads, and the Federal primer pockets will lay down and die about the time things are getting interesting.I don't have enough experience with Hornady to have an opinion.

I use Norma and Win, depending on the rifle.
 
I basically agree with Dogleg, but I also use Federal brass quite a bit on the range. I generally don't get more than about 4 or 5 loads out of it before it's finished, and the primer pockets can start to loosen a bit after even 2-3 firings.

For hunting, Federal would be fine if you stick with once-fired brass.

Winchester is excellent and lasts many firings. That's the brass I use for hunting.

Remington is also pretty decent. It's harder than Federal.

I agree that the .300 Winchester likes hot loads. On the other hand, I've also found that some of the best accuracy I've gotten has been at one spot that is about 3 to 4 grains below Max with 180-grain bullets. For general purpose fun on the range, I use 70 grains of H4831SC with a 180-grain Hornady. This is actually quite a moderate load by .300 Win standards (though it's still more powerful than any .30-06 load).

For hunting, however, I generally choose the most powerful load that gives me good accuracy and consistency. As Dogleg says, that usually happens right around the maximum load mark in this cartridge.
 
I used new Winchester brass for load development and once I found what my rifle liked, I loaded up my hunting rounds in once-fired Winchester Supreme nickel cases. I verified the hunting rounds with the development rounds, prior to loading the rest for hunting. I tried using new Remington nickel for a friend's rifle (identical to mine) but it didnt shoot as good as the Winchesters.

RL22 just below max in Nolser Reloading Manual with Feredal 215 Mag primers and 180gr Accubonds are my medicine. Under 0.5" groups @ 100m in my Sako m75ss 300WM.
 
Win and Hornady brass holds up well. Suggest at minimum you sort your brass by headstamp and load same headstamps.

Also suggest you have a look at these sites for some good info as well. Varmint als site, and Jerry Teos site (mystic precision banner above). A wealth of knowledge there for you to consider. Have fun shooting clover leafs.
Elky......
 
I have had the opposite experience as Dogleg. I found my rifle prefered Federal brass, newer batch however. I run mine a tad hot, pushing a 208 amax to 3000fps with retumbo without pressure signs in MY rifle. I also found neck thinkness extremely more consistant with federal brass and am on load 6 without losing one piece so far.

I tried new Winchester brass but the amount of prep time required to get it up to spec for match accuracy is excessive. Not to mention I lost 2 pieces on the first firing due to case body splits, I gave up on win brass.

This is my experience, so take that for what its worth. Also please keep in mind I neck size and anneal on 3 firing so my brass will get better milage than most. With that said I have seen federal to be more consistant in general.
 
I prefer REmington Brass to Win or Fed in that order.

I third the Reloder 22 with a fed215m primer and damn near any good bullet. I've killed a pile of stuff with that combination and a 168 gr TSX.
 
I agree with all of the above. Mine gave me best accuracy with a hot load of IMR 4831 and WLRM primers. It prefered the 180 190 and 200 grain bullets. It shot the ballistic tips well, but they were too violent on game. A 150 ballistic tip would cut a coyote in two. Full length resize all of your cases, fireform and then stick to neck sizing. Get a neck sizer, don't fool around with trying to do it with a FL sizer. Enjoy.
 
Every gun is an individual regarding components.Use the magnum primers from hottest to mildest......WLRM........Fed..........CCI............not sure where Rem fits in. The Fed mag primer was developed for the Weatherby ammo as they were getting hangfires with other brands.Most unpleasant in a magnum.............Harold
 
I agree with the posters who singled out Winchester as the best.
Federal is soft, no question.
Remington is fine, but not quite as good as the Winchester.
Hornady [Frontier] is quite similar to Winchester, close enough that I have wondered if it is Winchester made???
Regardless, I dislike it when primer pockets are noticeably looser after 3-4 firings, so avoid using Federal if it is possible.
Eagleye.
 
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