What's your favorite shootin' brass?

[mallc]

What's your favorite bulk purchase rifle brass? The kind of stuff you buy in 100s or 500 piece bags?Winchester? Remington? Other?

What makes it good? Where do you buy it?

Scott

 

[ljnowell]

Guess I was the first one, YAY! I just started reloading, but almost all of my brass is winchester. I shot lots of WWB. I do have some starline, but as far as the majority, its Winchester. It seems to be ok though as I have a few cases that I have reloaded already about 7 times working up a load, and they are still going strong.

 

[SteelyNirvana]

Still consider myself a new reloader but I prefer Winchester brass. That goes for primers also

 

[Historian]

Lake City .223...hands down.

Historian

"It's a good thing that we don't get as much government as we pay for." Will Rogers

 

[Walkalong]

Winchester and Starline for pistol. Lapua for match 6PPC cases (made from .220 Russian). LC and whatever I find for .223. Same for .308, but I don't shoot much of it.

 

[FlyinBryan]

i like pmc, and lake city.

behind those, winchester, rp, then the rest.

 

[USSR]

Voted "Other". In .308, I use Lake City Match and Hornady Match. In .30-06, I use Lapua and Lake City Match. And in 6.5x55, I use Lapua.

Don

 

[The Bushmaster]

I like all three and use Winchester, Remington and other.

99% of my rifle brass is range once fired pickups. I have very little "new" brass and that was given to me...

 

[D. Manley]

Favorite is Starline. Between Remington and Winchester, I'd have to vote Winchester "in general" although for some calibers, I like Remington just fine.

 

[ReloaderFred]

The only new rifle brass I buy is .45-70, though I load 9 different rifle calibers. For the .45-70, I prefer Remington new brass.

You didn't ask about pistol brass for your survey, but for that it depends on the caliber as to which brand I prefer. For most handgun cartridges, I prefer Winchester brass, though I don't purchase handgun brass new at all.

Hope this helps.

Fred

 

[lev83]

I only use Winchester or Federal brass. Excellent results and easier to sort.

 

[dwave]

I use Starline or Winchester.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Depends on the cartridge

For 7.62x39 the small primed Remington cases are superior to even Lapua

For most of my other rifle cartridges I use whatever brand I have the most of being careful not to mix headstamps for a particular load.

handguns I don't even bother to sort

 

[joneb]

What ! nobody picked American brass and here I thought everything had changed

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Federal first and then Winchester.
(I'm a little surprised you didn't list Federal)

 

[jhansman]

Winchester first and last, with LC for semi-auto .223 the only exception.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Starline is my favorite. Thus other.

 

[jjohnson]

Starline

Well, if you'd asked about RIFLE brass, I'd have said Winchester, but since most of the brass I buy (read: when I can't pick it up for FREE at the range) is bought as components, instead of brass saved after shooting up factory ammo, Starling is just fine by me. I'll shoot about anything if the brass price is right, but the Winchester rifle brass seems to be softer than Remington.

That's not a scientific answer - just seems my Rem reloads tend to crack more often than the Winchester stuff.

 

[Grassman]

My personal favorite is FREE brass...........

 

[280shooter]

Free brass, is for sure
LC 223
rem,280,,8mm 221 fireball
win, 357, 38 spc,
fed 44mag

 

[jeepmor]

Another vote for Other which is "free" brass. I've never had an issue with Remington or Federal. Everything I've split has been in 10mm has been Starline. So, all the praise that brand gets, I have to put myself on the other side of that fence. All else, no issues in any of my rifle and pistol calibers.

 

[Mal H]

Kind of a short list there, so I have to go with 'other' - Starline.

 

[jfh]

ditto on Mal's comment--I generally buy Starline.

Jim H.

 

[wolfeyes]

Lake City.........jh

 

[ReloaderFred]

The original poster asked about RIFLE brass, and everyone is telling him what their favorite PISTOL brass is. Starline only makes a couple of rifle calibers, with the majority of their products being pistol calibers.

Hope this helps.

Fred