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7mm rem mag brass
bambambam
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I've heard alot of talk about winchester, remington, hornady,norma brass. I haven't heard anything about federal. I have a bunch of factory ammo brass that I've fired and am ready to load. Is federal good brass?
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Load it up .
W.D.
If your reloading intentions are to be on the low to middlin' side, use the Federal brass. If you're wanting to use the cartridge as it was designed, sell the Federal brass and get some good brass. Federal brass has always been a tad soft and will not stand up to repetitive reloading or top end loads as the cartridge was designed. This is common knowledge for most reloaders.
Good luck with your project!
Best.
quote:Originally posted by nononsense
bambambam,
If your reloading intentions are to be on the low to middlin' side, use the Federal brass. If you're wanting to use the cartridge as it was designed, sell the Federal brass and get some good brass. Federal brass has always been a tad soft and will not stand up to repetitive reloading or top end loads as the cartridge was designed. This is common knowledge for most reloaders.
Good luck with your project!
Best.
That has always been my point. Shoot the factory ammunition and it's great. After that, sell the brass. We used to buy FGMM in .308 Win. by the case to use for competitions and at one point I had several thousand pieces of brass. Reloading it back to factory specs resulted in poor performance and case life.
I bought a couple of thousand cases of .300 RUM brass from a custom run made by Federal from a 'custom' rifle builder. It lasted 4 reloads as long as I stayed off the upper end. If I ran it at the upper end, it was over after the second loading. There's no point to having a cartridge like the .300 RUM is you can't use it to its potential.
Best.
JustC,
That has always been my point. Shoot the factory ammunition and it's great. After that, sell the brass. We used to buy FGMM in .308 Win. by the case to use for competitions and at one point I had several thousand pieces of brass. Reloading it back to factory specs resulted in poor performance and case life.
I bought a couple of thousand cases of .300 RUM brass from a custom run made by Federal from a 'custom' rifle builder. It lasted 4 reloads as long as I stayed off the upper end. If I ran it at the upper end, it was over after the second loading. There's no point to having a cartridge like the .300 RUM is you can't use it to its potential.
Best.
Question then, what brass do you prefer for the 7mm Rem Mag.? Norma is way more consistent. But, it too, is a bit soft in the head. I personally prefer Winchester for 7mm Rem Mag. and other cartridges. Although, in a number of cartridges, I've seen Winchester's quality slip a bit.
FWIW, I would prefer Lapua in any round I can get brass in. They don't make brass for the 7mm Rem Mag. as I understand it.
I had a good response to you but it went "fritzzzz" and disappeared into the unknown of the black cyberspace!
Regarding: your comment - " FWIW, I would prefer Lapua in any round I can get brass in. They don't make brass for the 7mm Rem Mag. as I understand it. " Correct.
Lapua - does not make the brass for it.
Norma - does make the brass. ( 7mm Rem Mag - Product #27021 )
PMC - was making the brass and ammo for it ; now?
Remington - brass and ammo made and available for it.
Hornady - was making the brass.
Winchester - was making the brass.
http://www.lapua.com/en/home.html
http://www.norma.cc/content.asp?Typ=28&Lang=2&DocumentID=390&Submeny=4&Rubrik=Components&Title=Norma Cases
http://www.pmcammo.com/home.html
http://www.hornady.com/reloading/cases
http://www.hornady.com/store/7mm-Rem-Mag-c-1082/
Winchester brass is fine general hunting and reloading. It can be sorted to provide more consistent results but that raises the price per piece of course.
I just got 500 pieces of RWS 7mm Rem. Mag. brass since I've used their brass for quite a few years now. They seem to be 'catch as catch can' here in the U.S., so I buy it when I can find a supplier. Horneber is even harder to find let alone obtain for reasonable prices but I find a small number of folks who bring it in for us occasionally.
I gave up on Federal a long time ago for reloading but even Winchester and Remington are slipping nowadays. It takes buying a larger quantity just to be able to sort, to achieve anything for competition. Then you're left with fixing the flash holes, neck diameters and neck wall thickness. Each piece then becomes very valuable.
Best.
I got one of those e-mail 'blasts' from Huntington's out in California about the fact that they are carrying a larger line of the RWS brass cases. It's not inexpensive but it is a higher quality.
It's looking like this is going to be a stock up year for brass and bullets for current projects so sales and discounts are going to be important. I've got too many disparate cartridges in process with little carry over or common denominators for shared cases. I have to concentrate on doing that better next year.
Best.
sandwarrior,
I got one of those e-mail 'blasts' from Huntington's out in California about the fact that they are carrying a larger line of the RWS brass cases. It's not inexpensive but it is a higher quality.
It's looking like this is going to be a stock up year for brass and bullets for current projects so sales and discounts are going to be important. I've got too many disparate cartridges in process with little carry over or common denominators for shared cases. I have to concentrate on doing that better next year.
Best.
Thanks,
I'll look at them again. I never think to go there. I did buy 100 pieces of the .308 Norma brass from them though. First group of five from the rifle was .817" and second group (5) was .379" That was with Nosler CC 168's and Hornady 208 Amaxes. I boffed my next group of 15 using the new Hornady 208 BTHP's. But, most of them went into one large hole. The total group size was 1.123" Not too shabby.