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I placed an order yesterday on some 357 mag cases. Does anyone have a recent order that was back ordered and an approximate turnaround time? Just trying to get a ballpark - 2 months or 2 years.
 
About 1-2 weeks for me as well. I thought I'd be waiting a lot longer. My MBC order from may hasn't shipped yet.
 
Couple months ago, was 45 or 10mm I ordered 1K backorder and was on my doorstep in 13 calendar days. I'd order with confidence (if you aren't out)
 
Ordered some 6.5 Grendel brass, backordered. Shipped 12 days later. Ordered some 350 Legend brass May 3rd and as of today, June 25th, haven't received the brass or heard anything. Looked on my account and it still shows ordered (not cancelled yet).
 
I am of the belief that Starline allows orders for a specific type of brass to accumulate to the point it is worth their while to produce it. Thus more popular calibers will be produced more often while the uncommon types will have to wait until they reach the threshold number.
 
Dunross said:
I am of the belief that Starline allows orders for a specific type of brass to accumulate to the point it is worth their while to produce it. Thus more popular calibers will be produced more often while the uncommon types will have to wait until they reach the threshold number.
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No need to simply believe such a thing. They have stated in the past that they follow exactly this practice. I can't seem to find mention of it this moment however.
 
My timing for the .38 brass I ordered must have been perfect. Received in 4 days even though it said back order but orders allowed. Shortly thereafter I ordered some .357. Was about 3-4 weeks.
 
So Starline brass is located in Sedalia too? That makes them, plus Sierra, plus the Capstone Group, which is US Distributor of VV powders, Lapua brass, SK ammo and Berger bullets. All in a town of 15,000 in the middle of no-where?

Starting to suspect the reloading mafia is headquartered in Sedalia.

Edit: On a hunch, checked address and it's the same location as Sierra bullets. Didn't know that.
 
Update - I got a tracking number this evening. So 1 day turn around on 357 mag. That doesn’t mean it will ship tomorrow, but they printed a label.
 
I've bought about 20K pieces of Starline over about 6 calibers the past 3 months. It's very dependent on the caliber. It's taken 3 months to get my 32 acp, 38 spc shipped in a week. 45 colt shipped in 2 weeks. They rotate through 3 status's, Green, Yellow, Red. If it's green, they ship that day, yellow could be a week, or months. Red you can't backorder. They rotate through their offerings, so if you need any, you've got to check every day to see what's been opened for backorders. I just ordered 357 and it shipped the same day.
 
Howa 9700 said:
So Starline brass is located in Sedalia too? That makes them, plus Sierra, plus the Capstone Group, which is US Distributor of VV powders, Lapua brass, SK ammo and Berger bullets. All in a town of 15,000 in the middle of no-where?

Starting to suspect the reloading mafia is headquartered in Sedalia.

Edit: On a hunch, checked address and it's the same location as Sierra bullets. Didn't know that.
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The reloading mafia headquarters:

reloading-mafia.jpg
 
Howa 9700 said:
So Starline brass is located in Sedalia too? That makes them, plus Sierra, plus the Capstone Group, which is US Distributor of VV powders, Lapua brass, SK ammo and Berger bullets. All in a town of 15,000 in the middle of no-where?

Starting to suspect the reloading mafia is headquartered in Sedalia.

Edit: On a hunch, checked address and it's the same location as Sierra bullets. Didn't know that.
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I stopped and took a tour at Starline about three years ago. Great people. Starline building and Sierra building about 300 yards apart.
 
Had .44 spl backordered and it shipped 2 days later. Got package in 2 days. Luckily all my calibers are very common so will be a repeat backorder'er
 
Rest of the story? Turns out proximity of location to Sierra may not be a coincidence........(btw, I'm a big fan of both)

https://www.starlinebrass.com/articles/The-History-of-Starline-Brass-An-Innovative-Idea/

Also never gave it much thought, but from where both are located in Sedalia, one could be at the Lake City plant in less than an hour. May matter to Sierra, as I understand their match king bullets are used heavily in some match and sniper loads. As per above, at one time Starline was also producing brass under contract to the government. Not sure if that is still true, but if it is and it gets loaded at LC..... that would explain a few things.
 
Howa 9700 said:
Rest of the story? Turns out proximity of location to Sierra may not be a coincidence........(btw, I'm a big fan of both)

https://www.starlinebrass.com/articles/The-History-of-Starline-Brass-An-Innovative-Idea/

Also never gave it much thought, but from where both are located in Sedalia, one could be at the Lake City plant in less than an hour. May matter to Sierra, as I understand their match king bullets are used heavily in some match and sniper loads. As per above, at one time Starline was also producing brass under contract to the government. Not sure if that is still true, but if it is and it gets loaded at LC..... that would explain a few things.
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Yep, and under an hour from Missouri Bullets too. And about an hour from me.
 
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