Respectfully,
There IS a lot of dead wood in there... I'll buy .30-30 Winchester from Winchester/Olin and load it for the like new Pre-64 94 my father left me... Winchester/Olin can't produce decent .270 Winchester Brass at the moment. The same can be said of .243 Brass and I have been working with it so this is not a slam. I used to prefer and generally love W-W Brass for Everything. Why I could not have bought 500 pieces of .375 H&H Brass instead of 200 when I was working on the range and my price was south of a give away... They need to stick to their core business and get QC under control before they become an also ran... I truly would be delighted if Lapua would start making .270 Winchester, bring back .300 Winchester Magnum, and bring .375 H&H Magnum into the fold. .300 H&H Magnum would be leave me like a kid in a candy store and I know it won't happen but it WOULD be nice... That said I am thrilled they started making 7mm/08 Remington Brass and hold out hope for the other really good cartridges... Time is money, and repetitive motion is carpal tunnel, I am THRILLED to pay for Lapua Brass. I really have ZERO use for .338 LM, however, guys are entranced by that case...
I think more shooters are more affluent than in years past and are willing to pay to play. I think this is being catered to quite a bit and I hope it continues to a point. It is the memories afield I enjoy not scrapping out junk brass... Buy once cry once.
Regards, Matt.
Regards, Matt.
In the Winchester/Olin lines, I'm having excellent accuracy from the 243 95 grain Extreme Point in my Remington 700 CDL-SF and RAR-P and from the 270 130 grain Power-Max Bonded in my CLR and Remington 760.
In the Hornady lines, I'm having excellent accuracy with everything that I've shot, with American Whitetail in 25-06, 270, and 7MM-08 being very accurate in all the rifles that I've shot it in. Their 6.5 Creedmoor ammo is also excellent, with the 120, 129, and 140 grain ammo doing sub-MOA in my inexpensive RAR-P, as well as in my Vanguard2 money pit.
In the Remington lines, the only cartridges that I buy are 170 grain 30-30s and they have been on the market so long that Fed/Rem/Win are all but interchangeable. I buy the Remington brand because I think that the little "scallops" on the RNCL bullets are cute.
In the Federal lines, I shoot the 80 grain "Blue Box" and 95 grain "Deer Thug" and "Fusion" in a couple of different 243s. I am thinking about switching to the Winchester/Olin 95 grain Extreme Point for all of the 243s that I don't load for, even though Federals are usually a little less expensive.
