Whatever you do, do not use Nosler Brass for 300 WM...

[Magoo22]

It will spoil you to the point that you will not want to use anything else ever again. I decided to try and save a few bucks and bought some PPU brass and learned that there is a reason it is half the price. I will not call it bad brass but I had to work the heck out of it to get it good to load. Necks were all over the place. Length was not consistent and primer pockets were very inconsistent. It is fixed and loaded and I will see how it shoots and reloads.

Nosler was perfect and was very easy to load. If you have not used it you will not know what you are missing. So if saving money is important, do not give it a try... Really too bad that Lapua does not make 300 wm. Norma is unobtainium in these parts as well and $4.00 a piece is crazy for RWS.

Nosler for the win, in my books.

 

[Hitzy]

Peterson makes some, suppose to be good brass. Xreload has brought in some of their offerings but not the 300mag yet.

 

[rick357]

It will spoil you to the point that you will not want to use anything else ever again. I decided to try and save a few bucks and bought some PPU brass and learned that there is a reason it is half the price. I will not call it bad brass but I had to work the heck out of it to get it good to load. Necks were all over the place. Length was not consistent and primer pockets were very inconsistent. It is fixed and loaded and I will see how it shoots and reloads.

Nosler was perfect and was very easy to load. If you have not used it you will not know what you are missing. So if saving money is important, do not give it a try... Really too bad that Lapua does not make 300 wm. Norma is unobtainium in these parts as well and $4.00 a piece is crazy for RWS.

Nosler for the win, in my books.

Nothing wrong with the PPU. I primed it, filled it with powder and topped it off with a bullet. It shot just fine. Once fired I cleaned, full length resized with proper neck bump, trimmed to length, neck sized, primed, filled it with powder and shot it. First hundred are on their 12th reload and the second 100 is on its 7th reload. Gets the full treatment every second reload.

I run PPU in my .223 as well. 400 cases well into the high teens of reloading and counting. It gets the same treatment.

Knock on wood but no problems at all so far other than for my managing to miss fully inserting the case into the shellholder on the rare occasion.

 

[sherlockbonez]

I used both nosler and ppu. Both shoots the same with the same load, but ppu i had to prep some before first load. Primer pockets are not as consistent with the ppu and i got 5x out of my nos, but would not hesitate to pick up some ppu if price is right.

 

[Hitzy]

I only used it once so far....7mm Rem. It's nice brass, bit of a red tint to it, machined extraction groove, but what surprised me the most was the weights, all 50 were within 1gr.
I usually weight sort into "high" and "low" groups with high being within 3-5gr of each other on the heavy end, and low the same....so typically I'm seeing a 7-10gr difference in a box of commercial brass, so this was pretty impressive.
I'd use it again for match brass, for hunting I'm not that particular.