Is Barnes brass good?

[GSSPatterning]

No idea.

 

[robert rex]

If you weigh it, it is all over the map. Even in boxes from the same case. Reloaded cases were inconsistent enough to make me sell it rather than reload it.

 

[RavenRocksPrecision]

Barnes sources brass from different companies. For example, we have Barnes headstamped 375 H&H on sale and that brass was made by norma in Sweden. They just headstamp it Barnes. This is pretty common.

 

[quigley257]

I bought some 1x Barnes headstamp 300 WM brass at a gun show a while back knowing that it was likely made by Norma. It was clearly from two different lots as there was a heavy and a light pile during my sorting process. Within each respective pile, however, the weights were really decent as far as variance goes. The difference between the heavy and light lot was significant at around 10gr or more between the two(possibly closer to 15gr). I can see this being a problem if someone developed a max load with the light brass and then loaded the same charge with the heavy stuff. Other than that, no complaints with Barnes brass.

 

[WYO300RUM]

My experience is very limited. Only loaded it in a 300 RUM for a friend. Once fired Barnes head stamp factory wouldn't hold a primer after resizing. Could tap it on the bench and the primer would fall out. Barnes had seriously over loaded it from the start. Might explain the scrappy accuracy issues he was getting with a Remington custom shop 700.

Sounds like Nosler 300 RUM brass I tried years ago. Never did again.

 

[MagnumManiac]

I contacted Barnes and told them about the primer issue. Their reply was that someone had over loaded it. These was out of the box Barnes 165 grain TTX. That shot very bad. He also had some Remington once fired that I used until he found some Norma brass. I don't think the brass was that soft, but that Barnes was loading it to the hilt for speed. TTX hits pressure fast. I think it was a bad combination.

This ammo is exactly where my fired brass came from, and also from 180g TTSX Barnes 300RUM ammo.
I have not had a single problem with loose primer pockets, however, the 165g TTSX load was faster than the box as advertised and the 180g TTSX load was 200fps slower, just motoring along at 3030fps, not the 3250fps as said on the box.
In both cases, loads from Barnes were very accurate, both got under 1MoA with 10 shots, my usual test…

Cheers.

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

Barnes sources brass from different companies. For example, we have Barnes headstamped 375 H&H on sale and that brass was made by norma in Sweden. They just headstamp it Barnes. This is pretty common.

This is the exact brass that I am looking at to reform to 7STW

 

[Tbones]

This ammo is exactly where my fired brass came from, and also from 180g TTSX Barnes 300RUM ammo.
I have not had a single problem with loose primer pockets, however, the 165g TTSX load was faster than the box as advertised and the 180g TTSX load was 200fps slower, just motoring along at 3030fps, not the 3250fps as said on the box.
In both cases, loads from Barnes were very accurate, both got under 1MoA with 10 shots, my usual test…

Cheers.