LAX is owned by Kash-LAX.For some reason I thought LAX was made by Extreme but then that doesn’t mean Starline didn’t actually produce it.
Kash-LAX acquired Xtreme after they went through Chapter 11
LAX is owned by Kash-LAX.For some reason I thought LAX was made by Extreme but then that doesn’t mean Starline didn’t actually produce it.
Admittedly I do not buy much new brass. I typically stick to once fired if I am buying or range pickups. The only new brass I have ever purchased was for 45 Colt and it was Starline. I also have Remington and Winchester 45 Colt brass and I consider the Starline to be better. If you can find some I think you'd do well to get the Starline.
-Jeff
I'll ask for clarification, because i have no idea what "TTL" is an acronym for or what "6 to 7 grand" is a measurement ofStarline .38 Special brass is notoriously short of published TTL by 6 to 7 grand.
I took my wife to the range on Sunday; of the thousands of spent cartridges lying around, I found nothing I reload for (.38 special, .45 Colt, 30-06, 30 Carbine, etc). Brass has become so expensive that a lot of people reload now, and absolutely scour ranges for anything useful...sigh....and to think of all that .38 brass I threw away when I was younger....Admittedly I do not buy much new brass. I typically stick to once fired if I am buying or range pickups.
-Jeff
I think he’s saying Starline ships their .38Spl six to seven thousandths of an inch short of the recommended trim to length.I'll ask for clarification, because i have no idea what "TTL" is an acronym for or what "6 to 7 grand" is a measurement of
Meh, not really an issue to me, it is very, as you point out, consistent in length and wall thickness, so all I have to do the new Starline revolver cases is deburr/chamferr (because that's where I choose to be picky), tumble and use. I'm a stickler for consistent case lengths with revolver cases, so that's more important to me than whether it's .005 under the recommended trim to length, or right on, or .005 over. My first ever range brass in .38 Spl had some "short" cases in it, so I trimmed everything to 1.140, and have been doing so ever since. Years ago I tried an experiment where I bought new Starline cases and tested to see if I could shoot it any better than my mixed cases from range pickups, and I couldn't. Tucked away the unfired new cases and have been shooting mixed range brass ever since.Starline .38 Special brass is notoriously short of published TTL by 6 to 7 grand. There is no reason for straight wall brass to be made short of TTL. Their wall thickness is the best of the best and they are sized dead nuts on. Their 45 acp brass seems to be consistently made to published TTL with the same excellent wall thickness tolerances
Starline? I am a fan. I have purchased & (re)used several thousands of 4 different flavors of their cases over the past couple of decades.How do ya'll feel about starline brass?