Starline just announced they are making .308 brass now. I am glad to see they are moving into the bottleneck rifle brass business. Prices on their site are $376/1,000. Seems like a good deal. https://www.starlinebrass.com/brass-cases/308-Win/index.cfm
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Once fired brass may also but be once fired but at the end of its life & also out of a machine gun that may also make it unusable. I've bought one bag of mixed head stamp once fired brass for 243 & about one third of it was junk. However the price wasn't bad & I wasn't unhappy with it at the price. 243 seems pretty easy on brass so I'm sure I got my money's worth out of it. So far I've never bought any factory ammo in 243.
627PCFan
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Im several thousand cases in to LC once fired and the only cases I tossed were ones I screwed up. I looked at Starline since I use them for all my pistol cals but since my only 308 has a fluted chamber it wasnt worth the price for one shot.
Wreck-n-Crew
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Starline brass is top quality pistol brass. If their quality is as good in rifle brass as in their pistol brass I would say they are going to do well. especially with a competitive price to other new rifle brass makers. I'm looking forward to seeing how they do. At $.38 a piece too! not bad. That's coming in around the price of new Winchester brass!
mgmorden
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That's certainly the truth. Seems like everywhere that sells range pickup brass sells it as "once-fired". All once fired means to me is that it was fired at LEAST once, but could have been fired a dozen times for all I know.
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As others have mentioned, 36c per piece for 308win brass is NOT expensive. Midway has them for 45c per piece. Once fired brass almost always goes for 50% of new component price - so your contention of 16c per piece is consistent with the same NEW price point for these Starline brass.
Unless Starline's brass is somewhere in the Norma/Nosler/Lapua ballpark, or at least on par with Hornady consistency, I'm not interested.
Starline makes some of the best pistol brass out there according to many. There's no reason to believe they won't make excellent rifle brass.
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Being best in pistol brass isn't a difficult challenge - the degree of precision is very different.
I've also not found Starline to be "the best pistol brass out there." Measure your lots, you'll often find Starline is not as consistent as several other makers of pistol brass - I use it by the thousands of pieces because it's tough and lasts forever, but when it comes to precision, it's not really anything special.
I've also not found Starline to be "the best pistol brass out there." Measure your lots, you'll often find Starline is not as consistent as several other makers of pistol brass - I use it by the thousands of pieces because it's tough and lasts forever, but when it comes to precision, it's not really anything special.
With pistol ammo I doubt it needs to be, so I'll take tough and last forever. Maybe the bullseye shooters could tell the difference, but I know I can't shoot the difference between mixed cases and sorted cases with pistol, so I'm happy with lasting a long time, whatever head stamp it is.
Yes, we need to figure out how the new .308 cases measure, weigh, last, and more importantly, shoot, and then we can give a better opinion on them as far as the price goes.
Yes, we need to figure out how the new .308 cases measure, weigh, last, and more importantly, shoot, and then we can give a better opinion on them as far as the price goes.
armarsh
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I had a bad lot of Starline 30 Tok brass. They would crack at the shoulder after 1-2 firings. Sometimes it would leave the shoulder in the chamber of the pistol and cause a massive jam. Starline would not warranty the 200 cases involved.
Over the years I Have mentioned this many times because it is rare that a reloading component company will not stand behind their products. Usually people respond that Starline makes excellent straight wall pistol brass and does not make much bottlenecked brass so I should cut them some slack.
Over the years I Have mentioned this many times because it is rare that a reloading component company will not stand behind their products. Usually people respond that Starline makes excellent straight wall pistol brass and does not make much bottlenecked brass so I should cut them some slack.
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