Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles PRVI Partizan brass? any reloading experience?

Have only used it in my 9.3x62 CZ. With JB's loads it has worked just fine and I am on my third load.

My limited experience with it in 30-06 is that it is pretty darned good. Primer pockets were round and snug. The brass was pretty thick. I weighed it and the variation was acceptable. Greater than Nosler and Hornady, but still not bad.

Did you measure the neck walls for uniformity?

I have, on four lots of Prvi brass in 6.5x55, 8x57, 7.5x55 and .22-250. Overall, the Prvi brass is about as good as some better lots of Remington or Winchester brass in that regard.

I didn't mathman.

Like Jim I've found them to be middle of the pack in that regard. It's hard to get Lapua necks for 2/3 Lapua price.

I've been using their brass for both my 8x60s and 9.3x62. Had trouble with shallow primer pockets with the 8x60 brass, I'd guess 60% required the primer pockets to be recut. Pocket depth left primers standing proud and varied from case to case quite a bit. Different story with the 9.3x62, checked all the pockets and only a few of that 100 case lot needed to be squared up/ cleaned up slightly. From my experience with 200 cases, it varied. Once the primer pockets were cleaned up, brass performed well.
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Some guy a couple of years ago was going to trash about 80 rounds, after shooting up 4 boxes of some really old 22.250 cartridges...

he gave them to me and I gave him a few bucks to buy himself a beer on the way home...

I'll admit, they weren't as "smooth" as other brass... sorta commie made quality if ya know what I mean....

but I tested them out, if nothing else....

ran them hard, with overload charges...

they held up just fine, for 40 reloads on them...when I decided to retire them.. still have them sitting in the boxes he gave them to me in...in case I ever need to use them again...

Sitting real flush on Rem and Win 22.250 Brass I bought that was supposedly once fired...so far its seemed to be...

It's all I've used in old milsurps, 6.5x55, 7x57, 8x57 Mausers and 303 Brit. for five or six years. I don't load them to max and have to trim the 303 after three or four times but never had a problem with any of it in any rifle.

Bought some and 308 many years ago. I had to full length size them because headspace was too long to fit two different factory rifles that I've had no problem with otherwise. It's thick and heavy and you have to reduce charges. Neck thickness quality is about like others say not great...not horrible.
For all the monkeying around Id never buy it again unless it was a last resort.