gwalchmai
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In terms of reliability and consistency.
Best .45ACP Brass?
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Starline.
Quantrill
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Starline.
WhoKnowsWho
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Star Line, all they do is make brass!
racenutz
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It sure as heck isn't PMC
stans
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Starline, followed closely by Winchester.
kimbernut
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best .45ACPbrass
1)Starline
2) Mil.Spec. Winchester
3) Commercial Winchester
4)Mil.Spec. Federal
5)Commercial Federal
IMO
1)Starline
2) Mil.Spec. Winchester
3) Commercial Winchester
4)Mil.Spec. Federal
5)Commercial Federal
IMO
Ala Dan
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MIL-COM Winchester, as I haven't tried Starline.
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
Swamprabbit
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Recently I bought 1K of IMI Match brass and have been very well pleased.
bogie
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The best .45 ACP brass?
The free stuff that I scrounge... Then I shoot it until I lose it, give it away, or I can't get a primer to stay in the hole...
The free stuff that I scrounge... Then I shoot it until I lose it, give it away, or I can't get a primer to stay in the hole...
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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Best 45 brass
The best 45 brass that I have sold a few hundred thousand of is MILSPEC military specification brass that was what the pistol was designed for and the ammo was GI that was made for the pistol and lives depend on it for many generations of our military. I like batches of a thousand rounds of the same manufacturer and the same year like WCC77 Winchester made it in 1977 for our government and it is the best quality with the longest reloading life no matter the year when Winchester made it.
Fitz
The best 45 brass that I have sold a few hundred thousand of is MILSPEC military specification brass that was what the pistol was designed for and the ammo was GI that was made for the pistol and lives depend on it for many generations of our military. I like batches of a thousand rounds of the same manufacturer and the same year like WCC77 Winchester made it in 1977 for our government and it is the best quality with the longest reloading life no matter the year when Winchester made it.
Fitz
I like the GI Match brass. Normal GI brass is fine but the primer is crimped in. My 1050 takes care of it, but a still pain for those without a 1050.
I saw mostly Minchester match brass till 2000. Now all the 45 match brass I have seen is Federal. Havent played with any of it yet.
IMI is good stuff also. Great 223 brass...
I tried Starline, but its too soft compared to GI.
I saw mostly Minchester match brass till 2000. Now all the 45 match brass I have seen is Federal. Havent played with any of it yet.
IMI is good stuff also. Great 223 brass...
I tried Starline, but its too soft compared to GI.
cheygriz
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Milsurp! Hands down!!!
Paul "Fitz" Jones
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GI Primer Pocket crimp
GI Primer pocket crimp. Is little problem for me as the effort to get rid of it gives me the best brass possible and the Rocket shaped inside-outside neck reamer mounted in my drill press can help me to zip them all off equally. I also have an old Lachmiller and a C-H primer pocket swaging set and with my Star Progressive reloader the alignment of the primer seating station is so accurate that I can load GI 45acp brass without removing the crimp as long as I only use Federal or Winchester primers.
I refuse to use CCI primers as they have always been dimensionally unstable. In other words their size, roundness, height can vary and they can have burrs, the anvil heights can vary and the anvils can be cocked and all explosions I have investigated were caused by CCI primers up to 1979. Also when using automated high volume reloaders the CCI paper primer boxes shed slivers of paper in the feed mechanism of the reloader causing primer feeding jams so the primers had to be shaken in a large wire screen to sift the paper slivers out.
GI brass is worth the effort as that is what all 45acp weapons were designed to use when the 45acp weapon was invented and adopted by our Government. It has served us well for almost a century.
Fitz
GI Primer pocket crimp. Is little problem for me as the effort to get rid of it gives me the best brass possible and the Rocket shaped inside-outside neck reamer mounted in my drill press can help me to zip them all off equally. I also have an old Lachmiller and a C-H primer pocket swaging set and with my Star Progressive reloader the alignment of the primer seating station is so accurate that I can load GI 45acp brass without removing the crimp as long as I only use Federal or Winchester primers.
I refuse to use CCI primers as they have always been dimensionally unstable. In other words their size, roundness, height can vary and they can have burrs, the anvil heights can vary and the anvils can be cocked and all explosions I have investigated were caused by CCI primers up to 1979. Also when using automated high volume reloaders the CCI paper primer boxes shed slivers of paper in the feed mechanism of the reloader causing primer feeding jams so the primers had to be shaken in a large wire screen to sift the paper slivers out.
GI brass is worth the effort as that is what all 45acp weapons were designed to use when the 45acp weapon was invented and adopted by our Government. It has served us well for almost a century.
Fitz
dleong
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Sellier & Bellot brass, especially in 45ACP, gets my vote. They are the most dimensionally consistent brass I have come across.
What, nobody mentioned...
A-Merc?
(I throw that stuff directly into the garbage can when it winds up in my brass bins, I won't let anybody else have the chance to reload it, either.)
Most of my 5K pieces of .45 ACP brass are the WCC9x style. Although there's a bunch of Fiocchi that just got donated to the cause recently.
A-Merc?
(I throw that stuff directly into the garbage can when it winds up in my brass bins, I won't let anybody else have the chance to reload it, either.)
Most of my 5K pieces of .45 ACP brass are the WCC9x style. Although there's a bunch of Fiocchi that just got donated to the cause recently.
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