Starline brass
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SASS#23149
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I"ve used a lot of it,,and other brands and it'ts as good as any.
No data to back it up,I just load and shoot and leave the record keeping to others.
No data to back it up,I just load and shoot and leave the record keeping to others.
spencerhut
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I shoot a lot of Starline in .38 Super Comp, .45ACP, .45ACP +P, 9MM and .40S&W.
Far and away Starline is better than any of the other brass I use, and I use about everything else out there too. Win, R-P, CCI, Speer, Hornady, Lapua, WCC Nato, ARMSCOR, etc. etc.
I case gauge all the pistol ammo I make and Starline fails the gauge very rarely. Any of the others, not uncommon for them to fail the gauge at all.
The primer pockets of Starline brass I have used are, in my experience, always correct with a moderate amount of force required to seat the primers and abuse required to loosen the pocket noticeably.
I've had very few splits in any Starline cases. Most were .38 Super Comp or .40 S&W that were used many, many times. The Super Comps last until the headstamp is faint to unreadable on a regular basis.
Any loads that are "hot", for SD Practice, or for hunting get loaded into Starline brass.
Any IPSC, Steel Challenge etc. match and practice ammo gets loaded in whatever I pull out of the bucket.
Starline has my business until they change for the worse. No, I don't work for them and am not sponsored by them. Wish I was
Far and away Starline is better than any of the other brass I use, and I use about everything else out there too. Win, R-P, CCI, Speer, Hornady, Lapua, WCC Nato, ARMSCOR, etc. etc.
I case gauge all the pistol ammo I make and Starline fails the gauge very rarely. Any of the others, not uncommon for them to fail the gauge at all.
The primer pockets of Starline brass I have used are, in my experience, always correct with a moderate amount of force required to seat the primers and abuse required to loosen the pocket noticeably.
I've had very few splits in any Starline cases. Most were .38 Super Comp or .40 S&W that were used many, many times. The Super Comps last until the headstamp is faint to unreadable on a regular basis.
Any loads that are "hot", for SD Practice, or for hunting get loaded into Starline brass.
Any IPSC, Steel Challenge etc. match and practice ammo gets loaded in whatever I pull out of the bucket.
Starline has my business until they change for the worse. No, I don't work for them and am not sponsored by them. Wish I was
rcmodel
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It's as good as any, and way better then most.
It's also the only game in town for a lot of specialized calibers nobody else makes.
rcmodel
It's also the only game in town for a lot of specialized calibers nobody else makes.
rcmodel
zxcvbob
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The walls are pretty thick so you might want to pick another brand for .45 Colt "cowboy" loads. Otherwise it will not expand enough to seal the chamber. I use it for .45 Colt +P loads that would make a .44 Magnum blush and it works great for that. I use Remington or Winchester brass for my occasional black powder loads.
ADKWOODSMAN
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To quote RCModel, It's as good as any, and way better then most.
I agree with all; Starline is at or near the tops in quality. However, zxcvbob makes an excellent point. When creating very light loads, Starline brass might actually be too good. R-P is better for those applications where a tight chamber seal is required with light loads.
stormspotter
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I find it top notch. When I need another 500 or 1000 I just take a 5 minute drive, to their business, and buy direct.
IDriveB5
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I have a bunch for .357 Magnum. They seem to like jacketed bullets better than lead. I assume this to be because the thickness of the brass and my lead stuff is .358 and the jacketed is .357.
Pumpkinheaver
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Great brass, my top choice when buying new.
Ben Shepherd
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After loading many thousands of pistol rounds over the last 20 years here's my take, with 1 being best:
1. Starline
2. Hornady/frontier
2. Federal
3. Winchester
4. Speer
5. Remington
I personally refuse to use remington pistol brass any more, as I've had too much trouble with it. But as noted above it has certain uses. Also 2, 3, & 4 can almost interchange depending on the individual lots. Hornady is expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Another newcomer I did not rank is top brass. Still haven't used it enough to decide. But so far it's preforming very well. Thickness, weight and length seem to be very uniform, I just need to load some more than ten times before I'm satisfied with its durability.
1. Starline
2. Hornady/frontier
2. Federal
3. Winchester
4. Speer
5. Remington
I personally refuse to use remington pistol brass any more, as I've had too much trouble with it. But as noted above it has certain uses. Also 2, 3, & 4 can almost interchange depending on the individual lots. Hornady is expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Another newcomer I did not rank is top brass. Still haven't used it enough to decide. But so far it's preforming very well. Thickness, weight and length seem to be very uniform, I just need to load some more than ten times before I'm satisfied with its durability.
Uncle Chan
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If I could afford to buy all new brass for all of the calibers I reload, it would be Starline.
I just a couple thousand in .45ACP and think it's great brass. In my last 1000 though I found a couple rejects that they didn't catch- one was the rim was WAY too thin and allowed the primer to go too far into the brass... at least with the hand primer.
I pretty much build mid range 44mag loads with 8.1grn of H universal clays & Fed lp primers. Although I've never had any problems with Rem. brass I did notice the velocity went up by 34.4fps with Starline using the same crimp. I can only assume the thickness of the case created a differant burn and barrel time? The bullet by the way is Oregon Trail 240grn rnfp
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