Grendel Brass

[Remington Jim]

Hi Guys ! I have both New Starline Brass and New Hornady Brass to load up . Any preferance to either brand OR a Diff brand Name brass to use ? Thks

[ricsmall]

Either one of those will do. I like Lapua but only use it in precision bolt gun

[A5BLASTER]

I have hornady, Starline, ppu and Remington.

Remington is crap period.

Ppu I use in my CZ bolt grendel for the 123 and lighter pills, great brass.

Starline I use in my CZ bolt grendel for the 129 and heavier pills, really great brass.

Hornady I use in my ar grendels, good brass can take several loads before it's done.

[muvef]

I prefer Starline over Hornady. It just seems to last longer. My current lot has 7 firings on. One split neck and I run all my loads on the hot side. I annealed the rest and just reloaded them today.

[Mitdr774]

Hornady seems to be a bit soft compared to Starline. I have had ejector marks show up on Hornady brass far sooner than I have with Starline brass in my Howa mini. This was while using published load data and the velocity on the ejector marked Hornady brass was a good bit below the velocity of the ejector marked Starline. Velocity numbers were close to what the load data suggested they should be. That is how I come up with my assumption that the Hornady brass is soft.

I am still on my first batch of Starline brass. I have 50 pieces that have at least 5 firings on them with no issues. I do need to dig out the annealer and run them through again though. I try to anneal the necks every couple firings. Might be overkill, but its a habit I picked up from my 6.5x55 and its appetite for brass.

[SPECTRE66]

While we're on the subject of brass.....
I have some questions for you all. I have recently completed [U]reforming[U] 7.62X39 Russian brass (Winchester headstamp), into 6.5 Grendel. The brass has been annealed, sized to 6.5G, then trimmed to length. Since it's 762X39, it has the large rifle primer. Looking thru the Sierra#6 reloading manual, they comment on the 22PPC cartridge, which can also be made from 762X39, saying to be cautious, as the larger primer, can cause pressures to spike 'Dramatically'. I'm not a big fan of drama in reloading. Ranks right up there with 'Catastrophic'.
Do any of you shoot any 762X39 reformed brass? This brass has yet to be fire-formed. I will be fire-forming it (tentatively) with a 123 grain HPBT, over 25.0 grains of Win 748.
-Is a 'Step-Up' in my Life Insurance policy required? Inquiring minds, and all....
Thanks.

[SPECTRE66]

In the United States, we're unfettered by weapons ownership, and what and how we choose to spend our monies.
While fire-forming may seem a waste of time, to those shackled by socialist government, please know that even during fire-forming, those projectiles spend useful (albeit short) time in flight, killing hogs anf other vermin we have. Hardly a waste of time or money.

[Mitdr774]

Based on what others have already posted about this topic, you are wasting time and money compared to just using the correct brass to begin with. Expect reduced velocity and reduced case life even after all that work. As you said though, its your money to spend as you choose. I would rather save the money and use it to buy more components. I suggest some real hard searching before just throwing some load together and potentially having a kaboom.