Federal or Remington brass?

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Hey everyone
As the title states just looking for opinion from experience on weather to go with Remington or federal brass. Loading a 223 rem for shooting coyotes. I haven’t used either as I use different brass choices for my rifles but I’m loading these for my dad.

Thanks for any advice
 
I’d pick Hornady over both. It is very consistent in capacity and neck thickness. And by all accounts tougher than most and certainly more than a few rumours lead on that it is.
 
If it was my choice I would use lapua or Hornady but not my choice which brings us to my questions.
 
Federal brass has been soft in the past, so it doesn't last as long. It kind of depends on what you want to do and how much brass you have or can get though. I have a virtually unlimited supply of Federal once fired .223 so if I decide to load some .223 (I hate loading .223 due to small components) I usually just junk the brass after one or two firings. Sometimes you can find a bucket of .223 brass at the range so it's worthwhile to just use what you have.

If you are buying new brass, I'll take Remington over Federal, given only those two options.
 
chuck nelson said:
I’d pick Hornady over both. It is very consistent in capacity and neck thickness. And by all accounts tougher than most and certainly more than a few rumours lead on that it is.
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I've found Hornaday to be good in my 308 and 270. Horrible in my 7mm WSM. Extremely thick necks in the WSM and not as consistent as the other cartridges I have used from Hornaday. I agree though that I'd take Hornaday over Remington and Federal.
 
My brass preference goes;

1. Lapua
2. Norma
3. PRVI
4. Remington
5. Winchester
6. Hornady
7. Starline
8. Federal

I have used bits and pieces of others, but those are the main ones in use now in various cartridges sorted in order of uniformity and longevity... IME of course.
 
It varies a bit by chambering I find, Rem has some good stuff and some junk. In .375 H&H Federal was actually one of the good cases in my experience, and Remington one of the roughest as far as neck consistency and primer holes. I had a really soft batch of Hornady .375, it looked beautiful but flowed like crazy, needed way more trimming than usual and the pockets loosened with moderate loads after three firings. It all works but I’m with Hoyt, if Lapua makes a case for a cartridge, I use it.
 
From a very limited rifle loading experience(Win. 270), I prefer the Federal, when compared to Remington or Winchester. It came out of the tumbler looking prettier, with less flaws in the brass and seemed the nicest to load.
 
I find that Fed and Rem are about the same quality of brass in any caliber.

Myself (and every precision shooter out there) have done lots of test rounds of every sort and dimension for .223. On a small bullet as such, I find very little difference of loading one brand of brass to another. The differences are very small, if any. I still sort my brass by brand out of habit but in the big picture I don't find much of a difference between any grouping, even out to 400 yards.
 
We all better buy the Remington brass when you see it. I saw somewhere about 6 months ago that Remington is not going to sell reloading components as they want to concentrate on 'quality' ammo themselves.
 
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