Thread: 7mm08 reloading

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

In my experience all makes of brass are good except federal which was an arse to resize. Different makes will have slightly different capacities making the same load appear bigger or smaller in the case. However I have never found this to make any practical difference to accuracy or poi for hunting purposes.

Yep, Federal sucks, necks split easy (even with annealing) and the flash holes and primers pockets are a mess.
But for shoot it once and not caring in a semi, its an okay option.

Originally Posted by dogmatix

Yep, Federal sucks, necks split easy (even with annealing) and the flash holes and primers pockets are a mess.
But for shoot it once and not caring in a semi, its an okay option.

Federal Primer pockets, yes I got given a load of once fired brass for the 223 ( Im a bit of a squirrel for brass). Repriming the federal, excessive resistance was experienced, remove the case and it looks like the pocket has been shimmed? with copper and was off centre. Look at all the others they are the same so I bin the lot.
Having said the the factory ammunition is pretty good but I agree the brass is only designed for one trip.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Federal Primer pockets, yes I got given a load of once fired brass for the 223 ( Im a bit of a squirrel for brass). Repriming the federal, excessive resistance was experienced, remove the case and it looks like the pocket has been shimmed? with copper and was off centre. Look at all the others they are the same so I bin the lot.
Having said the the factory ammunition is pretty good but I agree the brass is only designed for one trip.

I had some hornady 308 brass from some factory superformace ammo and the primers had been 'crimped'?? in...... just gave them a strum up with the case deburrer and that took care of that