Starline Brass? Opinions.
- Thread starter icecold
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Me too. Case manufacturer makes no difference when it has reached the end of its life cycle.
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- Location
- Fraser Valley, B.C.
So I had the time and weighed my bag of 308 SRP brass.
It was a 100 cut bag.
I ended up with the following.
29 weight classes. From 174.3gr to 177.1
Average per weight class is 3.48 cases.
Max cases of the same weight was 8
All separated per .1gr which really I’m not even sure my scale is that accurate.
Spread is 2.8gr
This brass is fresh out of a bag. No prep work on my end at all. Little bit of tarnish but something tells me it may have been sitting for a little bit.
If you need any other info I have all my weights on a spreadsheet.
Cheers,
B
It was a 100 cut bag.
I ended up with the following.
29 weight classes. From 174.3gr to 177.1
Average per weight class is 3.48 cases.
Max cases of the same weight was 8
All separated per .1gr which really I’m not even sure my scale is that accurate.
Spread is 2.8gr
This brass is fresh out of a bag. No prep work on my end at all. Little bit of tarnish but something tells me it may have been sitting for a little bit.
If you need any other info I have all my weights on a spreadsheet.
Cheers,
B
DancesWithEmptyCasings
CGN Regular
- Location
- The Wet Coast
Starline pistol brass is great. It is all I use in my "Ruger" 45 Colt loads.
I have a fair bit of Starline brass in various pistol calibers which I find excellent. Much better than current Winchester brass. Only rifle brass I have used is 45-70 which is standing up well. I’ll buy more Starline when needed.
Like others I have a fair bit of Starline brass in several rifle & pistol calibers. 32-20Win to resize to 25-20Win, 30-30Win<bag of 100 on order, 38Spl, 357Mag, 44Mag, 444Marlin and 45-70Gov.
If they made it, I'd have Starline Brass in 25-06Rem, 300WinMag, 308ME & 35Rem.
If in stock, I'd buy 32 Win Spl.
The 'warmer' the loads are, the more often I CMA and check the case length of my rifle brass.
The only issue I've had is dings in the case mouth from shipping & handling. To remove, I just touch case the mouth with a Lee Universal Expanding Die to round case mouth.
I've seen this with other brands of brass that comes in a bag. Not so much with the more expensive brands of brass that comes in a box.
If they made it, I'd have Starline Brass in 25-06Rem, 300WinMag, 308ME & 35Rem.
If in stock, I'd buy 32 Win Spl.
The 'warmer' the loads are, the more often I CMA and check the case length of my rifle brass.
The only issue I've had is dings in the case mouth from shipping & handling. To remove, I just touch case the mouth with a Lee Universal Expanding Die to round case mouth.
I've seen this with other brands of brass that comes in a bag. Not so much with the more expensive brands of brass that comes in a box.
Common US rifle brass is getting expensive for what the quality it is. I won't buy Winchester red bag, it's just terrible, Fed is too soft and doesn't last, REM is okay but not very available.
Starline in the cartridges I've looked at is about the same price as Lapua. Peterson is more then Lapua. Makes buying Lapua an easy decision.
PRVI is good for what I've used it in, SIG has also been ok but very limited offerings here.
Higginson has good NOS in a few cartridges that is quite reasonable, bought a bunch of the Browning 3006 a while back, use it for anything that length, the stuff I got was made by Norma (drilled flash holes) and really good stuff for $20/50.
Starline in the cartridges I've looked at is about the same price as Lapua. Peterson is more then Lapua. Makes buying Lapua an easy decision.
PRVI is good for what I've used it in, SIG has also been ok but very limited offerings here.
Higginson has good NOS in a few cartridges that is quite reasonable, bought a bunch of the Browning 3006 a while back, use it for anything that length, the stuff I got was made by Norma (drilled flash holes) and really good stuff for $20/50.
When brass was impossible to find for my 7-08 I necked down new Starline .308. Unlike Hornady new brass which can be puzzlingly short in some calibers when new, it came out really close to trim to length. It’s all I’ll use now, less weight variances than any common name brass, as good or better than Nosler (and way less $). Haven’t tried Lapua, can’t find any, but the Starline is getting me submoa with several bullets…….except 140 Accubond which it flat out will not group well
