W/W Super Brass

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I have alot of ww super brass for my 7mm and the brass i am currently using is nearing its end. I was wondering what those of you that have used W/W brass think of it. I have done quite a bit of searching without alot of great results on information. looking for opinions from people that have used it not just a bunch of buy lapua or go home remarks.

Thanks for any replies
 
ripitup911 said:
I have alot of ww super brass for my 7mm and the brass i am currently using is nearing its end. I was wondering what those of you that have used W/W brass think of it. I have done quite a bit of searching without alot of great results on information. looking for opinions from people that have used it not just a bunch of buy lapua or go home remarks.

Thanks for any replies
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Reload #4 thru my .300wm with WW.

Size it, trim it, weigh it, sort it, load it, shoot it

Rinse and repeat.
 
I use Winchester brass for all my competitive shooting. In fact, I shot in the World Long Range Championships in Ottawa in 2007 using Winchester brass, and I'm still using the same brass today.

Just use it.
 
W-W brass is the lightest, toughest brass available on the market. I have used nothing else in the calibers it is available in and would use nothing else. I can get an extra 100-200 fps in some cals from W-W brass over Rem, Fed or Horn, Norma is closest to W-W. Never tried Lapua but did a survey a couple weeks back and it would appear Lapua is 10 gns heavier in 308 than W-W.
IMHO it is far and away the best brass on the market for the price, toughness and weight/case capacity.
 
c-fbmi said:
W-W brass is the lightest, toughest brass available on the market. I have used nothing else in the calibers it is available in and would use nothing else. I can get an extra 100-200 fps in some cals from W-W brass over Rem, Fed or Horn, Norma is closest to W-W. Never tried Lapua but did a survey a couple weeks back and it would appear Lapua is 10 gns heavier in 308 than W-W.
IMHO it is far and away the best brass on the market for the price, toughness and weight/case capacity.
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I use a fair bit of range brass. I have found that WW brass requires less (sometimes even no) trimming than others. I also find that the primer pockets are tighter than Federal.
I have noticed fewer splits and separations in WW brass.
Take this for what you paid for it. I like WW brass.
 
Jordan Smith said:
I've had crappy luck with WW brass in the last couple of years. Lots of culls, neck splits, etc.

I'll stick with RP in the near future.
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Yes sir. The WW brass was always the best but something has changed in a lot of batches in the past two years many guys I know have seen the same drop in quality. I started buying lapua when I can get it now
 
My latest batch of new W-W .270 brass has loose primer pockets, i had to glue the primers in with George & Roy's primer sealent for the first and only shot.
 
My experience with WW Super brass seems to be the opposite of everyone else. I've only been reloading for a year or so now but so far WW Super has the most problems.

Remington RP brass:
1 split neck (.300WM 3rd firing)

Sellier and Bellot:
1 split neck (7.62x54R 2nd firing)

WW Super:
2 split necks (.308 2nd firing)
3 split necks (.303B 3rd firing)
2 split necks (.44 mag 2nd firing)
1 split neck (.44 mag unfired, split out of the bag)
1 split neck (6.5x55 Swedish unfired, split out of the bag)
1 collapsed neck during FL sizing (.308 between 1st and 2nd firing)
1 case head separation (.303B 2nd firing)
2 loose primer pockets (.303B unfired, wouldn't hold a primer out of the bag)

Also have at least 6 WW Super .44 mag cases I bought new unfired that only go into my shell holder in my press in a certain orientation. The rim thickness varies so much from one side to the other I need to turn them until they fit. I have about 250 .44 mag brass of which 150 are Remington and no issues with them at all.

My brass is around 50% Remington, 30% Winchester (of which 90% WW Super headstamps), 10% Federal, and 10% mixed S&B and PP. Most of my Remington and Winchester brass was bought unfired as components. I only started to do annealing recently and only do it ever ~5 firings or so.

Most of my loads are 5-7% under the maximum published loads from the Hodgdon site.

I've gotten to the point where I only load lower pressure plinking loads in my WW Super brass and any near max loads I put in Remington cases. I've had no issues yet with the couple dozen regular Winchester head stamped brass I have.
 
I have approx. 500 mixed 44 mag brass I've been reloading x times over the last 10 years. Last summer, for the first time ever, I started getting split cases. The first one I didn't think too much about, then they started splitting almost 1 every 10 shots and I started to pay attention to brass manf. All were W-W super. The Win headstamps and others were OK.

I suspect most of those that split were all from the same era so could be an isolated group of brass, although all the brass would have had roughly the same firings and age.

Needless to say I check the W-W stuff pretty close now and got rid of much of it.

Have not had any problems with rifle, but did find the Winchester stuff the 2nd lightest of all the 30-06 I have. (Hornady was the lightest). Not sure if that's good, bad, or otherwise.
 
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