Best Brass for Consistency?

[rockquarry]

There is a Brian Pearce article in a HANDLOADER magazine from ten or so years ago dealing with the use of segregated brass vs. mixed brass in two or three handgun cartridges. An accuracy comparison was included. The difference in group sizes (favoring like brass) was significant and made far more difference than most would imagine.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Many years ago in rifle brass I preferred NORMA for long life with full loads in hunting loads.
I still have a box of 22-250 Norma cases that will not die !!

I have yet to try Starline in any pistol loads.........as I have not run out of cases yet with my ten year stash of brass.
Still using R-P, Win. and Federal's with a few Milt. tossed in.

Did notice that prices have almost doubled in ten years, though...........

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

I voted Winchester mainly because that is 90% of my brass.
I'm not good enough (yet) with my M&Ps to blame a flyer on brass.
In my 222 Sako, it likes RWS and old DWM brass from Speer. Both are very consistent when it comes to weight and accuracy.

 

[mjohn]

I reload for pistol, and now CBC goes directly to the scrap bucket. I had too many rounds that would fail the case gauge check when using CRC brass. Since I sort brass by head stamp, no problem throwing the CBC into the scrap bucket.

 

[slickracer]

Any American made brass works for me.

 

[Mad_Charlie]

I voted Starline, and Starline is what I buy usually when I buy brass.

But, for lighter loadings, and factory level .45 Colt loading, I really like Winchester cases. They seem to expand and seal a little better than Starline and I have a tremendous amount of loads on my Winchester cases over the last 40 years.

For all out strength, it's Starline all the way. They also run very consistent in weight.

It's no big deal to sort by headstamp.

 

[Kframerbluvr]

My .40 brass stash has Federal, Remington, Speer and Winchester. I voted Federal. No issues with any of it loading 165 grain bullets with 4.5 grains WST. I have more headaches with 9mm by far. Different thicknesses, flash holes that pull out decapping pins, crimped primer pockets, etc. Bloody PITA.

 

[John R]

Most all the brass I reload is Winchester, and Remington.
I voted for Winchester and there was no provision for Remington.

 

[Nemo288]

"I have more headaches with 9mm by far"

That doesn't surprise me considering the 9mm has been around over 100 years.
Think of the wide variety of countries that have made guns and ammo for the 9mm (Luger).
The .40 on the other hand relatively recent round designed primarily for law enforcement.
I suspect a bad lot of .40 would be detected fairly soon.
On the other hand surplus 9mm could be all over the map.
I have no idea how many more new 9's are made than 40's but it has to be at least 10 times as many.. maybe 100...maybe more.

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Nemo

 

[Abflyboy]

I prefer Winchester military brass for my autoloading pistols and Federal for my revolvers. I do have a large variety of brass for my autos, a lot of which will never get reloaded by me, CBC is among those. The rest is all mixed together unless it's WCC mil brass. That stuff is for competition only. Probably just in my head, but I don't get flyers or any other issues, the cases don't fail randomly, and they last a very long time.

Lake City is my number one for AR15's and AR10's. There is definitely a difference in accuracy and my ARs LOVE Lake City brass.

Bolt action rifles are kinda all over the place. I do segregate all that brass. Depending on the type of shooting the rifle does, hunting, varmint, long range target, a couple rifles only have 20 cases each for their 'magic load'.

My $0.02

 

[joeintexas]

I guess I am not as critical as some, as long as I can hit a 10 inch plate at 25 yards with pickup brass with any of my handguns I am good to go. I honestly haven't noticed any difference in accuracy in any brass. Rifle might be a different story.

 

[sw282]

Federal brass commands the highest prices on the net for once fired pistol brass. Starline seems to be the most consistant weight wise.
l prefer Fed brass in 44Mag. The cases seem to be thinner than some of the other brands.Thick brass usually gives poor accuracy in 44mag to me.
l shoot lead bullets almost exclusively. When seating these with thick brass the seating die will swage these bullets even smaller in their cases. This causes the bullets to be undersize and less accurate.

lf you want to see the difference measure an unseated lead bullet. Seat the bullet using thick brass... Then using your trusty lnertia bullet puller, disassemble the round...Measure pulled bullet again and you will see the bullet is now SMALLER.

 

[STCM(SW)]

I guess I am not as critical as some, as long as I can hit a 10 inch plate at 25 yards with pickup brass with any of my handguns I am good to go. I honestly haven't noticed any difference in accuracy in any brass. Rifle might be a different story.

About what I have found...
Now, split nickel brass in 38/357 seems common for me.

 

[Engineer1911]

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I'd like to start match shooting and I haven't decided if separating by manufacturer will make a difference. Or maybe I'm such a lousy shot that it won't really matter...

An honest shooter who may have a lot of company !