Is Remington Peters brass really that bad?

[MarkInPA]

Is Remington Peters brass really that bad? I was working with new, virgin .308 Winchester brass this morning. It was bulk brass. I expanded the case mouths, chamfered and deburred. I then proceeded to cull my undesirable brass by checking the case necks for concentricity and then by case neck thickness. I only pulled a few for concentricity over .002" but I pulled a pile of them for neck thickness variances by more than .0015". Just looking at my piles of brass, I'm guessing that I am keeping 1/3 of them and 2/3 are getting tossed or repurposed. I think I might run these through my sizing dies just to see what happens.

I only have the Remington brass because I got them for nothing. If I was buying brass, I would be looking at different options.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Short answer is yes.

 

[Quintus]

Depends on what you need out of your brass. I have a run of 260REM brass that is on the 10th cycle and been in use since 1999. It has been through load dev on over a dozen different bullets and has never been annealed. The batch has killed stuff as recently as this year (whitetail doe, 155gr Lapua Mega, IMR4831, F210M, Ave. Vel. 2614) and most of it that has not been lost or kept with the harvested horns is still running. Most of it at some point, or most points has been pushed fairly hard and the primer pockets are still in pretty good shape. They have been great hunting/practice and fun shooting brass. I don't know what it takes to win money competitive shooting so maybe that is where it falls off and becomes so bad?

 

[06 SB]

For hunting it is just fine for normal hunting distances. For target and long range it is not. I have used a ton of RP brass over the years for hunting but when it comes to long range stuff, I use Lapua or Norma if the former is not available.

 

[can1010]

brass is only as good as the person prepping and shooting it, don't care what the brand is and to be honest 95% of shooters can't shoot the difference anyways.
there is a mental mind block out there about brass that it has to be this or that brand to shoot well. give your brass a good prep and fireform then develop a load that that brass likes.

 

[AkleyFan]

Concentricity will be addressed after firing in your rifle, neck thickness variations of .0015 is nothing to worry about for brass you'll use for hunting. The 308win isn't that picky. You could setup some tests of your "best" brass and "worst" brass - I suspect the differences will be negligable, if noticable at all. I cull nothing I don't abosultely have to (for hunting, not benchrest). Besides, we're all a bit of a Scientist at heart - go get nerdy and burn some powder.