I was at the range yesterday (it was the first nice day in a while). I’m shooting my highly accurate 308Win next to a fellow who was shooting his .308Win. During a break we began to talk about shooting LR (he’s an F-Class competitor) and the topic got around to brass and brass prep.
I told him that a number of years ago I got access to a 3/4 full - 5 galllon pail of Winchester head stamped 308W brass from an RCMP carbine training exercise many years ago. I told him of the painstaking process I went through to culled and accurize this brass. I now have about 2000 pieces of precision, neck turned, annealed, weight sorted (0.5-1.0 gr/100 cases variation), and runout confirmed pieces. I’m on the 9th or 10th reload and still have about 500 in their original prepped conditions.
My reloads (more often than not) have 10 shot variations < 5 SD and ES’s of 12-15 ‘/sec. I’m consistently shooting sub 1/2 MOA 5 shot groups to 330yds (and believe I’m the weak link in accuracy).
I don’t compete anymore but feel that I would put this brass up against any 308 brass, anywhere…end of story. I’m proud of my efforts. I have enjoyed turning this range brass into precision brass.
The guy on the bench next to me looked at me like I was from another planet. He stated that I should have saved myself all that effort and just went out and bought Lapua, or Alpha or Peterson brass and I would have been better off. He stated that nobody competes any more (F-Class or Palma) using carefully prepped “range brass”. He stated that anybody who wants to win uses one of these brands, and basically skips most of the time consuming preparation steps like neck turning, weight sorting, confirming runout, etc.
Is this true? Please let me know if I’m a dinosaur?
I told him that a number of years ago I got access to a 3/4 full - 5 galllon pail of Winchester head stamped 308W brass from an RCMP carbine training exercise many years ago. I told him of the painstaking process I went through to culled and accurize this brass. I now have about 2000 pieces of precision, neck turned, annealed, weight sorted (0.5-1.0 gr/100 cases variation), and runout confirmed pieces. I’m on the 9th or 10th reload and still have about 500 in their original prepped conditions.
My reloads (more often than not) have 10 shot variations < 5 SD and ES’s of 12-15 ‘/sec. I’m consistently shooting sub 1/2 MOA 5 shot groups to 330yds (and believe I’m the weak link in accuracy).
I don’t compete anymore but feel that I would put this brass up against any 308 brass, anywhere…end of story. I’m proud of my efforts. I have enjoyed turning this range brass into precision brass.
The guy on the bench next to me looked at me like I was from another planet. He stated that I should have saved myself all that effort and just went out and bought Lapua, or Alpha or Peterson brass and I would have been better off. He stated that nobody competes any more (F-Class or Palma) using carefully prepped “range brass”. He stated that anybody who wants to win uses one of these brands, and basically skips most of the time consuming preparation steps like neck turning, weight sorting, confirming runout, etc.
Is this true? Please let me know if I’m a dinosaur?
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