ORIGINAL: bigcountry
ORIGINAL: eldeguello
Many people will accept the case life you are getting. I won't. I require my loads to permit cases to be reloaded at least tewn times.....
I have always expected my federal brass to only last 5 loads.
Do you think I am playing a dangerous game? I do expect more out of winchester, etc.
Not really. I too have had short life problems from some brands, including Federal. As a matter of fact, back when Federal announced that theywould no longer sell empty, unprimed brass to handloaders, I said " Big lossl! Who wants that stuff anyhow??" (Except for .416 Rigby brass, which I don't believe they ever sold empty, anyway!!)
At one time, Norma brass was considered quite "soft". Those were the ones that had a headstamp marked "re", "reloadable". When people (in the U.S.) started complaining about this, Norma stated that they were making those cases that way intentionally, to let handloaders know when they were loading ammo to what Norma considered "too high" pressures. The purpose was to let people know when they were "overloading" their ammo. At that time, Bob Hagel wrote that he was able to get better ballistics out of the .300 Win. Mag. using WW brass than he could out of the .300 Weatherby using Norma cases. But when he made .300 WM cases out of WW .300 H&H brass, the Weatherby easily outperformed the .300 Win.