Best Brass

[7mm]

Skol gents !

didn't realize brass was such a hot topic.. good to see the situation has cooled.. if we are all going to have a beer i will pass on the xxxx. Sorry 7mm but that is an acquired taste Might just go a VB ***** that it tastes like piss too.. i will go a scotch.

It's all tastes like piss cos it is piss

Speaking of quality Brass I wish I could get a hold of some AU made ADI brass, that stuff look like it would be great to reload, appears hard and is annealed, I don't think anyone gets it but the military though

[Gun Barrel Ecologist]

ADI brass is now available to reloaders - in two calibres at present: .50BMG & .223/5.56

The latter was $50 per 100 at the ADI stall at the last Shot Show, where they were also giving away hardcopies of their 5th edition reloading guide.

I'm slightly annoyed I didn't buy a bag at the time, giving rising brass prices, however I'm convinced from others comments that being optimised for the chamber of the 5.56 F88 Austeyr the ADI brass wall thickness & hence weight would be markedly different to the Rem brass I'm currently using, and I just cant be bothered developing another load using brass which may or may not remain in supply

[Surveyor]

In your opinion what company makes the best brass?

I've used mainly Remington and Federal. I think Norma brass is probably pretty good too.

Does any one brand seem to last longer than any other?

I once read an article in a reloading publication where the author took many brand of new cases(all same caliber) and loaded them shot them, full lenght resized them and reloaded them again. He would do that until he could see positive signs of imminent case head seperation. The Norma's lasted way longer than all the rest.
That is not the most important aspect that I consider when choosing brass to reload. Aldough I realy like to reload and go to the range and test my load, I have a limited amount of time that I can allocate to these activities. So prepping a bunch of new brass in order to be able to segregate the good and the not so good brass isn't an option for me. I buy a bunch of Norma brass and load.
This is not blind trust. Belive me, I have several gages to take many different measurments on brass and have checked out quite a large quantity of Norma brass. On average 5% had minor flaws. Never had to send one to my recycling box. Now I only check for dented necks and repair those that are dented.

[skeetshot]

With regular and proper annealing, brass can easily last over 50 reloads. I anneal between the 8th to 10th reload, and generally dont have any problems.