Suggested brass

I like Winchester and Remington brass. Have used a lot of different brands over the years and though I'll use some of the off the wall inexpensive stuff, I don't a lot. Only problem is case life. I'm hard on brass to begin with and can tear up stuff like PMC pretty quick. Bet if I didn't load hot ammo it would last longer! But in the end you'll find most of mine is Winchester of Remington.
 
Thanks for the help guys. Everyone sure does like there particular brass. Nonetheless, I at the moment will stick with the Winchester and Remington for the moment. Hopefully with enough hands on I can move up the ladder with brass. As that is mostly what I buy regardless of caliber. Well, for .380 will get something new as I usually get Herters.
 
For pistol I like Lapua and Starline. For rifle Winchester and Federal. Bottom of the list for both, Remington.
 
I would have thought companies like Winchester/Remington would make good brass or products. But that's just my ignorance talking as I don't have much knowledge about the topic.

I do have two different types of Federal... one that is marked FC

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and have others that is stamped just FC. With those I would have to get another tool to get rid of that ring right? If so, which one is it? Thanks.
 
Aye, that's a primer crimp and it needs to be removed before repriming.

It can be swaged with a tool such as the Dillon primer swage, CH-4D primer pocket swager kit, or others.
Or it can be cut with various primer pocket uniforming or crimp removal tools (Lyman, Hornady, RCBS, etc.), or a plain old chamfer/deburring tool.

I usually use a deburring tool for small lots - such as with .30-06 - and the CH-4D swaging tool for larger lots (.223/5.56).
 
I use a lot of Prvi/PPU brass, for a lot of old military calibers it is the only real option. I never found a problem with it, found it quite comparable to Winchester or Remington.

Lapua is still the gold standard.
 
Thanks FrankenMauser for the names of the tools... in the meantime will use the Remington's I have... quite a few of them before I start loading the federals or when I end up getting the tool then I know I must use the brass.
 
Aye, that's a primer crimp and it needs to be removed before repriming.
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Before the Internet , before most of the members on this forum started reloading there was a reloader named Hatcher that removed crimps with his pocket knife. I have no doubt that is exactly what he did; I purchased 1,400 cases for $14.00; there was no way I was going to remove the crimp with a pocket knife.

3 weeks later I was in Yonkers, NY when I found and purchased 3 metal linked belts of 30/06 ammo, cheap. I would not have considered the purchases had it not been for the RCBS case prep center.

Again, there were the cases with dirt daubers,

F. Guffey
 
My rifle brass I get from my shooting buddy that doesn't reload , he shoots HSM match Amax . The cases are HSM , ADI and FC all the brass is on the thick slide which is better for me because I load on the mild side an the thicker case causes my charge to fill the case just right . Rem & Winchester cases are thinner , would be better if your loading hot . I wouldn't pick up range brass because , how would you know if the brass was left from a guy like me who got 25+ reloads out of those cases and decided to start new .My cases look new I wet tumble , the cases look brand new each reload . I use to weigh my brass , now I just shoot one brand at a time .
 
Lapua is still the gold standard.
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Norma is the gold standard.

Lapua is nice but have not found it better than RP or PPU and I don't have to fix mouth dents with those two are new.
 
Thanks guys for the replies.

To avoid another thread... I recently collected

Frontier 5.56, WCC (Western Cartridge Company?) & WMA (Winchester?) nato brass (they both have the cross mark). I did see from some other threads the LC Nato are mentioned as good brass. Are these keepers? I just recently purchased my first AR and am looking to reload 5.56 as well. But I have to do my research first before I jump into it.
 
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