Have you fellows noticed ......
 

a difference in the brand of brass that you reload?

I'm getting ready to order 500 pieces to try my hand at cutting and trimming .223 brass. I was just wondering if you prefer one brand of brass over another.

I have less than 200 rounds fired thru my AR, so things are still a little tight, but everything is functioning smoothly.

Winchester brass seems to be the least expensive that I can find. What do you like to use?

Thanks for your input.

I like Winchester brass for almost all of my reloading

if paying ,I also choose winchester, freebies are welcomed anytime :nanabang:

I often use Winchester when I am paying for it. I get a decent supply of once fired from the range that is almost all Federal. I don't mind since it is free, but I have not had any problems with it either.

milsurp 1x....Lake City being my fave

last week I trimmed 6 different brands of 223.
FC, WINCHESTER, WT/WCC, RP, LC, and RORG.
They are all pretty close in terms of wall thickness(+or- .002") but the base varies a bit.
I also deburred the flashholes in the same setup(vertical mill and v-block) after indicating center with a 90 deg mill/drill. It is amazing how much variance(amount of cleanup at the flash hole) there is in the same brand. So that means the base thickness varies a bit since my zero was the bottom of the case. They were fired cases so I had to check for high primers and dings that might affect my cut length. For the most part they were pretty good.
Winchester has always been a decent good choice for 223 so I think it would be fine for 300W if you prep them well. I would deburr the flash hole and then weigh every pc and sort them.
I am going to check each brand for capacity to see what would be better for sub loads and hot loads.

Nick

.223 brass
 

I have a lot of range brass an Police range bras.... I like the Lake City '07 NON-NATO brass. very tough brass.

Some I've used

- Lake City seems very hard and good internal volume
- Winchester is a good buy but the primer pockets seem to fade after a few loadings.
- Fiocchi has less internal volume but tough bases and pockets
- Norma more expensive but best I've used have some with 10 reloads on them nice primer holes and tough pockets