Brass recomendations (brand) for 270win

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I'm getting back into reloading for rifles. I reload frequently for pistol, have for years, and use Starline brass exclusively but Starline does not sell 270 win brass.

The last rifle brass I bought was in the 1970's :eek: and was Speer brand. I guess Speer no longer sells brass.
Please advise your favorite brand of quality unprimed rifle brass for normal reloading (not the super expensive brass).

thanks
 
My favorite used to be Winchester when I bought new. However the quality has gone south over the past decade or so and I have more or less switched over to Hornady. It's not that I am a fanboy for any of it in fact I hardly buy new in the first place anymore. I would say 98% of mine is range brass I pick up from folks who don't reload. In this case it is usually once fired and nice and clean.

The rifle I shoot it in is a Rem 700 and it is not in the least finicky about case brands and/or usually the loads or bullets I feed it. I use it for hunting and worked up several very accurate loads years ago and just stick with them. I can shoot Win, Rem, Fed, Frontier, PMC and whatever else I have, all mixed together, into a 1" or less group at 100yds.

I say pick one your comfortable with and work up a good load, and go have fun with it.
 
Both of my .270's have never been picky about the specific brass. I try to mostly run Remington brass since I never could justify the extra cost of the Hornady brass.
 
i was told that hdy brass is made in serbia i have some has funny letters on bottom. have no problems with it
 
If I have a choice, I get Federal for any rifle caliber; second choice Remington. Federal brass is usually the heaviest of the big three.
 
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I have Remington brass in service right now with my 270. I'll switch to Norma eventually. Already have the brass, but haven't started loading it.

Pretty much any of the brass will work fine, but I've gotten lazy and don't want to do any more brass prep. Hence the switch to Norma, Lapua, and Nosler.
 
In my 270, the most accurate, long range recipe, uses Federal brass. Any brand seems to work fine at 100 yards. At 300 yards and beyond, being choosy matters........
 
Federal is the softest, the primer pocket opens a bit faster than Remington or Winchester cases, haven't shot enough Hornady cases to make a comparison.. William
 
For me, Winchester first, then Remington and Federal dead last. Winchester is the hardest and Federal the softest. The last batch of Winchester brass I bought was for my .280 Rem. Brass was just fine, not even one dented neck. The only problem I had was one bag was short three round and the other one round. Wrote Winchester and they gave me $10.00 in coupons for the next time I bought a Winchester product.
Paul B.
 
I built a 270 Winchester then loaded 12 different loads of 10 rounds each, I used 12 different head stamps, different bullets and powders. I took it to the range for testing. I did not move the scope, I used one point of aim.

I did not have a group that was larger than a quarter. The groups moved but did not open up. I repeated the loads of 120 rounds and ask the new owner to decide what the rifle liked. He said he shot one round from each group of 10 cases then zeroed the scope. He said the rifle liked everything.

The cases: New pull down LC, FA MATCH, new R-P 270 cases, once fired R-P 270, Winchester, Western Cartridge Company, FC, Federal, DEN, DM, and SL.

What is the advantage for using all of the different case heads stamps and dates? I can throw all those cases into one tumbler and sort them after tumbling.

F. Guffey
 
Mr Guffey is correct, in that the brass doesn't seem to make that much difference. There will, or can be a diff in accuracy, but only the serious shooters will probably notice. I was doing load work ups and testing various ways of sizing 223 brass for best accuracy a year or two ago. When I was finished, before I put everything away, I loaded up a bunch of mixed head stamp brass, some of which had been prepped and some that hadn't, and a few hadn't been fireformed to my rifle chamber. After a few 10 shot groups, the mixed brass groups weren't as good as the best groups, but they were close enough that only a serious shooter would notice or care. That was not the result that I had expected.

For the record though, I am still quite picky with my brass. The mixed brass test was just for info and to satisfy my curiosity.
 
PriviPartisan PPU is great brass. I am sure they sell virgin brass as well as the .279 150gr SPcan be had for about 13$ a box
 
Remington and Winchester brass has taken a HUGE nose-dive in quality over the last 10-15 years.
I won't buy it any more, unless there is no other option.

Federal brass is difficult to find as a component. ...And the once-fired stuff often has the primer pockets blown from the factory load. :rolleyes:

PPU is much more available now than even 2-3 years ago. It ranges from decent to good.
Hornady is decent.
Nosler is decent.
Norma is good.
Lapua is fantastic. (But you'll have to form .270 from .30-06 and end up with a slightly short neck.)

I won't touch PMC.
I avoid MagTech (CBC).

i was told that hdy brass is made in serbia i have some has funny letters on bottom. have no problems with it
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What, exactly, is that cartridge? Is it even a brass case?

Steel cases are generally not considered reloadable, so I'm not even going to address that subject.

As far as reloadable, boxer-primed, brass cartridge cases....
Some companies (particularly Winchester-Olin) have a lot of contracts with European countries for metric cartridges: 7.7x58mm, 7.62x54R, 8x51R Lebel, etc. Sometimes, they add contracts for 'standard' cartridges.

However, the cartridge head stamps are almost always clearly readable, printed in english, and nearly always labeled for the contract. ("Winchester", "S&W", etc.) They don't want you to know that you're getting import ammo, so they try to hide all evidence of the fact that it was made by (what is today) the lowest bidder.

The most commonly used foreign contractor is currently S&B (unfortunately). In the past, PPU was a favored contractor (much better than S&B).
I have never seen a PPU or S&B contract cartridge that didn't have the domestic company's name on the head stamp, with plain markings (not "funny letters").
The easiest way to (currently) get your hands on an example of this, is to buy something from the Winchester "Metrics" line of ammunition. It'll say Winchester everywhere, but they're crappy S&B cases loaded with crappy S&B quality control.

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Domestic Hornady brass is manufactured in Grand Island, Nebraska, by "Hornady Custom Ammunition" (formerly "Frontier Cartridge" a division of "Frontier Ammunition"). ....Not in Serbia.
 
winchester brass is always good and maybe the best for 30-06 based shells

always use magnum primers in the .270 and winchester large rifle magnum is best.fed 215's do best best with the H&H based shells but not 06 based shells

get some 130 gr sierra gamekings and some IMR 7828
 
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