Starlite
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I'm on my 5th firings if my 6.5 Peterson and alpha brass. Absolutely no signs of primer pockets failing
NEW 270 Winchester Brass for my new Savage axis II overwatch.
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I really like the peterson stuff as well as lapua and adg or norma
Starlite
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Agree. I've reloaded 40-60 pieces of Hornady brass. The SD are usually 1-3 higher vs the Peterson brass.
Buck Fever
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If you feel like the trigger is too heavy, there is a spring swap that can lighten it quite a bit.
You take the trigger blade spring and put it in the trigger spring position, then use a spring from a retractable ball point pen to create a new trigger blade spring. It dropped my pull to just a hair over 2 lbs and tested drop safe in my gun.
As for the brass, I would get a primer pocket uniformer, cut all the primer pockets and cull the brass that has loose pockets after that. Next time get better brass or buy loaded ammo, some times the bagged brass is stuff that got rejected from the ammo line. Making once fired can make sense.
You take the trigger blade spring and put it in the trigger spring position, then use a spring from a retractable ball point pen to create a new trigger blade spring. It dropped my pull to just a hair over 2 lbs and tested drop safe in my gun.
As for the brass, I would get a primer pocket uniformer, cut all the primer pockets and cull the brass that has loose pockets after that. Next time get better brass or buy loaded ammo, some times the bagged brass is stuff that got rejected from the ammo line. Making once fired can make sense.
Starlite
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Thankx for the information on the trigger...As for the Brass. I agree. In retrospect I should have bought something else with the store credit.
Starlite
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So I've looked for brass within a 600mile (1000km) radius. Only brass I can get is Hornady or Nosler (very expensive). There is also range brass (roll the dice on this one) that is significantly cheaper but could put me right back where I'm at. I've heard mixed results WRT Nosler brass.
thatguyshm
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Just got my first 270 as well. Used some once fired brass I had been given over the years, got decent results but not consistency so I went with new Starline. It's heavy but seems to work well.
I won't buy winchester new brass unless it's the only option. I've had entire 100 counts with what looked like double punched primer holes, more creases than I've ever seen in their shoulders and necks that vary by 5k in different spots.
Congrats on an amazing 50 dollars spent. I will say the 270 recoils pretty stout, but the one I'm shooting is an old tang safety ruger 77 with the red recoil pad.
I won't buy winchester new brass unless it's the only option. I've had entire 100 counts with what looked like double punched primer holes, more creases than I've ever seen in their shoulders and necks that vary by 5k in different spots.
Congrats on an amazing 50 dollars spent. I will say the 270 recoils pretty stout, but the one I'm shooting is an old tang safety ruger 77 with the red recoil pad.
Starlite
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For those of you who have repl
Likely I'll just do 10 different load test while breaking it in. I'm not to concerned the kick as I'll be shooting from a base. Once fall bear season arrives I'll be ready. I bet I won't even remember the recoil when I drop one. I'll be to pumped as always when I drop a big black bear.
thank you for the response neighbor ( I'm only an hour from Houlton or 2 hour from calais Maine). Yeah during this pandemic it's been really difficult to buy quality supplies for reloading on this side of the boarder. This brass seems pretty horrible too. I've heard mostly good commentary about starline brass. Did you get yours local?
Likely I'll just do 10 different load test while breaking it in. I'm not to concerned the kick as I'll be shooting from a base. Once fall bear season arrives I'll be ready. I bet I won't even remember the recoil when I drop one. I'll be to pumped as always when I drop a big black bear.
RD57
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I don't know what has happened to Winchester rifle brass in the last six years. I've been reloading the 270 Win since 1976 with Winchester brass and if I recall correctly I really started seeing the quality drop around 2014. The best Win brass I've got was in the 20 count cardboard boxes with the WW Super headstamp. I've got over 8 loads on that brass in the same rifle and is showing no signs of head separation or neck splits (neck anneal every 3 loads). My newest bag of Win brass had 7 necks folded in the manufacturing process and after informing Winchester with photos they sent me a new bag. Unfortunately that brass started head separation signs after the 4th reload. My old over 10 years batches of Winchester 243, 270, 308, 30-06, and 338 Win Mag is some of the finest brass I've seen and use but I don't know what is going on now with their production ... makes me think it is out sourced to someone else to make now. I'm looking very strongly at Petersen brass now, not thrilled with any of the other 270 brass out there.
Blackhawk
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I believe that all productions lines are short handed due to this dam Covid 19 virus.
This virus has just about crippled the production efforts of all company's large and small.
To that end IMHO the QC departments which are already short handed are letting items slide that normally would be red flagged.
It doesn't matter if it's high priced lets use brass as an example or a value brand.
Your chances of getting items that normally would never pass inspection are greater now than ever . More so if they are not produced here in the states but imported items of a lesser cost.
This however is not always the case ,rather an exception to the case.
Generally you pay more and should be getting a better product, and in a perfect world this would be the case.
However as you know we do not live in a perfect world.
All to keep the flow of product flowing, while we as consumers are certainly feeling the effects.
Case in point as listed above.
Observations ;
Try to keep mail order purchases to a minimum and if possible on over the counter purchases examine as closely as possible before the sale is complete in order prevent any issiues from occurring after the sale has been completed.
This virus has just about crippled the production efforts of all company's large and small.
To that end IMHO the QC departments which are already short handed are letting items slide that normally would be red flagged.
It doesn't matter if it's high priced lets use brass as an example or a value brand.
Your chances of getting items that normally would never pass inspection are greater now than ever . More so if they are not produced here in the states but imported items of a lesser cost.
This however is not always the case ,rather an exception to the case.
Generally you pay more and should be getting a better product, and in a perfect world this would be the case.
However as you know we do not live in a perfect world.
All to keep the flow of product flowing, while we as consumers are certainly feeling the effects.
Case in point as listed above.
Observations ;
Try to keep mail order purchases to a minimum and if possible on over the counter purchases examine as closely as possible before the sale is complete in order prevent any issiues from occurring after the sale has been completed.
Starlite
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To be honest I love my Peterson Brass in 6.5CM. Alpha brass has been impressive too.
Starlite
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You know, you've raised a good point that I hadn't consider. When demand is high QC can be overlooked. Maybe I should be looking at some once fired brass. There in a place that sells Nosler brass for $1ea. I originally thought this was High. However, this would have been boxed ammo, so likely assembled pre COVID-19 and thus manufactured to ta higher standard. Is Nosler once fired for 270 Win worth this? Another option is to buy some clearance ammo; Federal fusion 130 or 150gr for $40/bx(20)
Starlite
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so. I just had another thought. I have some good quality 30-06 brass. Can I easily resize this?
DocDoc
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Starlite, the .270 Win brass is longer than that for the .30-06. You can neck it down to .277 use, but it will be too short. I would recommend finding the correct brass.
