Is Remington Peters brass really that bad?

[Frank in the Laurels]

..all depends how long your tongue has been hanging out waiting for some other company to actually make some !!

 

[Greatgrandad]

Not sure about more recent lots, but I purchased 500 R-P in 25-06 just before Covid, and with a load using 85 grain NBT and 60 grains of MRP, they are producing 0.6-0.7" groups at 200 yards in my rifle. I have several older R-P brass in 243, 270, 308 and 30-06, and after a little load development, they group as well as some much more expensive brass. If I conducted a blind study, most people would never know the difference in the groups they fired. Especially in the field.

It wasn't my choice for BR brass, but I have hand selected and prepped various bulk factory brass and shot many very tiny groups.

 

[JKB57]

Never had a problem with any Remington brass,some of my most accurate loads have been on Remington brass for rifles,use alot of it in 41mag and 44 mag as well never had any issues

 

[MarkInPA]

It wasn't my choice for BR brass, but I have hand selected and prepped various bulk factory brass and shot many very tiny groups.

Do you recall how much you may have culled? Particularly the Remington's? I have hand selected and prepped the remaining Remington brass but, I am only keeping 1/3 of what I started with.

 

[Mikecr]

I bet once you find your 50 cases, you do your best to take care of them.

Wifely divorce would be less hassle than replacing these cases. So yeah

 

[Bombcity]

I've got a bunch of .300 RUM Remington Peters brass from about 16 - 18 years ago and it has held up great. I don't know much about the new stuff.

 

[Greatgrandad]

Do you recall how much you may have culled? Particularly the Remington's? I have hand selected and prepped the remaining Remington brass but, I am only keeping 1/3 of what I started with.

These were brass from years ago and not current, and if my old memory serves, I only rejected maybe 10-15% for various reasons. Some brands were a little less. These were for BR shooting and extreme varmint shooting, but as the years went by, we learned that unless the brass was way off in some quality and variations, it had far lesser impacts on accuracy and performance than other factors.

 

[MagnumManiac]

I can say with confidence that no other brand of brass compares to R-P brass in 375H&H for turning it into lots of other cases, ie, 300/340 Bee, 375 Bee, 7STW, 6.5STW & 416RM. I also use it exclusively to make 264WM brass from 7RM cases because other brands have not worked in my custom chambers as well.
I have so many 375H&H headstamped cases I have to look closely so that I don't use the wrong calibre by accident.
Of course there are other brands that I cherish for their toughness, notably Winchester 'w-w super' cases and Lapua. Norma is great if you know it's limitations regarding pressure.

Cheers.

 

[MarkInPA]

I just got done going through the same process with 100 pieces of Norma .30-06 brass. I only culled 9 pieces. What a difference! My Lapua .308 Winchester brass was just delivered this morning. We'll see how well this goes.

No more Remington Peters brass for me. Maybe for pistol and revolvers but, I would probably purchase Starline if I had the option.