Need help on sorting through brass .308

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I'm just starting with reloading and starting to buy all the equipment.

questionable brass:

I have some brass from Winchester Super-X PP, is this the same brass as sold by gun stores, or is it the lower quality?

plus I have some American Eagle brass, is it reloadable? high low quality? should I use it for hunting no precision?

ps. where can I buy some Winchester brass for precision reloading, as Lapua seems a bit steep on $$$, any other brass I should look at for precision, will be loading it with Berger 155's, SMK's 155,168,175, and want to try A-max Hornady :cool:

I'm confused please help :wave:
 
Can't comment on the Winchester brass but the American Eagle is fine to reload in my experience. AE is Federal ammuntion with a different name.
 
If you are loading match grade bullets, you are no doubt looking for serious accuracy. The brass you have named is all reloadable.
But it is important that brass be uniform and consistant. It helps if the brass is sorted by make and even production lot. Pressure levels can vary with different makes of brass.
Winchester bulk brass is good, but it will need to be sorted and prepped. Lapua is worth the price.
If you are serious about maximizing the performance of your loads, there are a number of things that you can do. Some of these are: carefully inspect, sort by make and weight, lot number if known. Group batches by weight. Clean, trim, chamfer, uniform primer pockets. There are more things that you can do, but these are basic.
You can buy bulk brass from Higginsons, Lapua from Hirsch Precision.
 
Remington brass does an ok job and is easy to find.

I have to agree with the others that mention Lapua brass. It is well worth it. I use Winchester and Remington brass for practice and use Lapua for matches.

Also for .308 you might want to consider a Lapua 155 scenar.



Good luck.
 
If your time is of any value to you, buy Lapua. All the other brand names can be made to shoot just as well with time spent sorting by weight, deburring flash holes etc.
 
Here is my reasoning, If you want cheap pracitce ammo then win brass is ok, for precision/hunting it is not worth the pain to use anything but Lapua (Peter Dobson sells this and is a member of CGN) this is the only way to go.

You can reuse each about 10 x min, that equates to .7 cents for each load, considering the cost of match bullets, powder/primer, and the cost of your rifle and getting to and from matches or hunting, why would you quibble over fractions of a cent on the brass...that is my 2 cents worth...
 
Ruthless you got some sound advise so far and Lapua is the way to go these.
there is no brass I have found that can touch lapua primer holes are perfect, and they weigh with in 1/10 gr no other I have found can match that. I just loaded some Lapua in .223 Rem after powder, bullet seated they weight differance was not more than .2 grs in 30 rounds, you just can't do that with any other brass, I have tried
 
Ruthless said:
I'm just starting with reloading and starting to buy all the equipment.

questionable brass:

I have some brass from Winchester Super-X PP, is this the same brass as sold by gun stores, or is it the lower quality?

plus I have some American Eagle brass, is it reloadable? high low quality? should I use it for hunting no precision?

ps. where can I buy some Winchester brass for precision reloading, as Lapua seems a bit steep on $$$, any other brass I should look at for precision, will be loading it with Berger 155's, SMK's 155,168,175, and want to try A-max Hornady :cool:

I'm confused please help :wave:
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I would suggest that unless you are in competition or your life is on the line then Winchester,WIN or WW super (all Winchester) are all quite sufficient for reloading reliable rounds.
Most of my peers use Winchester brass on a nightly basis to earn their lively-hoods....and if Winchester made BR brass then I would too.
 
You guys are awesome, thanx for info

so to sum it up:
Lapua = match grade perfect brass :D
Win = paper punching, if sorted a bit better suited for match
AE/Federal = hunting/paper punching

thanx also for the places to get the brass from, I'm really excited about reloading my own :sniper:

how come you guys didn't mention Norma, Hornady?

ps. J Stuart, Winchester does make match brass

will be back for info on .308 loads :D or results
 
Ruthless said:
You guys are awesome, thanx for info

so to sum it up:
Lapua = match grade perfect brass :D
Win = paper punching, if sorted a bit better suited for match
AE/Federal = hunting/paper punching

thanx also for the places to get the brass from, I'm really excited about reloading my own :sniper:

how come you guys didn't mention Norma, Hornady?

ps. J Stuart, Winchester does make match brass

will be back for info on .308 loads :D or results
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Not for 6mm BR and 22 BR they don't.

And I stopped using Norma 6mm BR brass because the primer pockets kept opening up, hence my continued use of Lapua brass in my work rifle.
 
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I use Norma brass and lapua 155s and they work pretty good out to 800m.

Ruthless, I have a couple extra boxes of once fired Norma, PM me your addy and I'll send you two boxes gratis.

See if it outperforms yours other stuff, or use it for matches.

I think it is already FL sized and deprimed, maybe chamfered too...
 
viper7 said:
I use Norma brass and lapua 155s and they work pretty good out to 800m.

Ruthless, I have a couple extra boxes of once fired Norma, PM me your addy and I'll send you two boxes gratis.

See if it outperforms yours other stuff, or use it for matches.

I think it is already FL sized and deprimed, maybe chamfered too...
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You're the man :dancingbanana:
 
viper7 said:
Sent Friday 14 March.

Threw in a box of 1F Fed gold match too.

Good luck - post pics of your results. :D
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You better drop by when you are in my neck of the woods :wave:

the pics will be up, I'm planning on my first trip to the range on April 5th or so

Will have Lapua brass & Winchester brass with Scenar 155, 168, and A-max 155, plus the Norma brass; thanx to VIPER7 :dancingbanana:, with same loads

should be field testing to at least 300 yards, hopefully 500-1000 within a month or so :sniper:

ps. got a .243 12FV 26" coming too so will test sacrifice some brass for it :D
 
My Rem 700 favors Federal brass, Win 748, WLR primers, Horn 165gr SPBT.

Don't do much long range shooting but that load bags me a deer every year and I put 7 rounds in a jagged hole covered by a loonie at 100m.

Tex sends
 
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