is this a common thing with nosler brass? Flash holes double drilled, not deburred/ shavings in flash holes and necks? The bulk brass I bought a few years ago was gtg besides a couple pieces being dinged up for how it was packaged. I know there's better brass but this stuff is for a dedicated night time / thermal gun and it's hard to find brass sometimes in knee high grass. I run adg in my other 6.5 prc and do little to no prep work on it. I've just never seen this on any brass let alone PREMIUM " ready to load". I emailed them so we'll see.
Nosler PREMIUM brass
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When Norma made their brass, it was much better quality. These days, what you have is what I've experience of Nosler's brass unfortunately.
MarkInPA
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Sounds like we should just buy Norma brass.
Midway USA just got some Lapua brass in. I just made a purchase last night.
That's pretty ridiculous from a "premium" brass. I've ran Nosler in my 270 WSM for a long time since options have been limited until recently. Now that ADG makes it I won't be buying anymore Nosler.
Too many good options for the 6.5 PRC to deal with the OP's issues. ADG or Lapua is the way to go.
Too many good options for the 6.5 PRC to deal with the OP's issues. ADG or Lapua is the way to go.
I'll take federal brass over nosler.... complete trash
HeyWho
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Nosler is way, way over rated and too expensive. It's ridiculous. Very disappointing entirely.
HeyWho
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I actually picked up several hundred pieces of FC .308 brass from Midway a month or two ago. It was listed as seconds and is GTG except the head stamp is slightly faint but other than that, no problems and I have shot a few times over and holds up nicely for me. Was very reasonable in price. Nice score in my book.
Lionel Boyd Johnson
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I've tried to load Federal brass in both .223 and .308 for precision shooting. Found it varied too much in neck runout and weight variation. Gave up on it.
HeyWho
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I have heard a fair amount of people don't like FC brass too much but I thought I would give it a try. And I am just an average shooter and not looking for ultra precision. If I was, most likely would not mess with FC in all honesty.
Darkker
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I love it when people start talking about weighing cases, as if it has some magical effect on case volume.
Then like clockwork one of the Lapu-tisms will step in and start claiming things they can't pronounce.
To the OP:
Nosler has never been able to make their own brass, until they purchased Silver State. The entire case industry is extremely incestuous, and whenever someone stops feeding the handloading sector because of a government contract. They pay everyone else to build their products for them. That's why the "scandal" of Hornady's discontinued list, only scandalized the Crayon-eating true believers; the rest of us are adults and know how the sausage gets made.
If the primer punch holes bother you, then get rid of them. But the fact of the matter is, it's not remotely as important as you think it is.
Then like clockwork one of the Lapu-tisms will step in and start claiming things they can't pronounce.
To the OP:
Nosler has never been able to make their own brass, until they purchased Silver State. The entire case industry is extremely incestuous, and whenever someone stops feeding the handloading sector because of a government contract. They pay everyone else to build their products for them. That's why the "scandal" of Hornady's discontinued list, only scandalized the Crayon-eating true believers; the rest of us are adults and know how the sausage gets made.
If the primer punch holes bother you, then get rid of them. But the fact of the matter is, it's not remotely as important as you think it is.
I bought 200 rounds of there bulk brass a few years ago when it couldn't get anything else. This 50 was supposed to be there Premium ready to load and it's mostly junk. The bulk brass was 100% nicer than this new stuff with only a few necks being dinged from the way it was packaged.
One of the guys I load for always got Nosler brass. He was a GS owner and bought from his vendors at wholesale. I had to do lot of prep work on it that should have been unnecessary in my opinion. At the price it should have been much better. Like another said, it used to say ready to load and mostly was. No more.
I bought some nosler for 280rem, only stuff available at the time. Primer pockets got loose in a few after a little stress in shooting, so much so that on the next loading the primer was moving when loading. I put them to the side and not using them.
