Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles RWS rifle ammo...anyone have experience....

I found a pretty good sale on 30-06, 308 and 300 win mag on loaded ready to go RWS ammo. Anyone have experience with it. From what I understand the brass alone is worth about $1 ea and is equal and sometimes better than Lapua??

Excellent ammo, just be sure it's Boxer primed if you plan to reload it.

I bought 2000 rounds of german 7.62 Mil-Spec from Nobel Dynamite (aka RWS) that was cheap and Berdan primed. It was sooooo cheap (22 mag priced) that reloading was no issue.

It holds 1.5 MOA in my DPMS 16" "door kicker" and all but 100 rounds are being held in the nice sealed tins for 2012. (Kidding .... sorta)

I got a bunch of RWS .375 H&H Magnum brass with a used rifle I purchased, so I have experience with the cases but not loaded ammo.

The .375 H&H cases I had were fantastic. I know the .375 H&H is no benchrest rifle, but to pass the long winter I prep brass in front of the TV or stereo.

The cases were extremely uniform in weight, and the necks were very straight (I have one of those RCBS case gauge gizmos. Primer pockets were very uniform in depth, and there were no burrs inside the case around the flash hole.

The case heads are nice and hard so they do not show premature signs of pressure like the Rem cases I had did.

I anneal the necks about very dozen loads, and at that interval the case necks do not crack.

This is my only experience with RWS brass, but based on it, I would sure like to get a lot more!

John

PS: I have used a lot of Lapua brass too (although not in .375 H&H) and I would put the RWS on the same level.