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Where can I buy best quality .250 Savage brass. I'm not competent at turning brass necks. I have checked Lapua and Nosler. Nothing there.

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Hornady makes it these days. I'm having good luck with it, needs annealed though.

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Lots of hits for 250 brass on the web, Midway, Graffs etc.

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i kinda wondered if 6.5 Creedmoor brass resized and shot in a 250 Savage would work ?


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I've had good results with Winchester and Remington .250 brass. I've gotten many handloads from both brands.

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Originally Posted by pete53
i kinda wondered if 6.5 Creedmoor brass resized and shot in a 250 Savage would work ?


Or neck up .22-250 cases. When I got my first .250 that's what I did despite having .250 Sav cases. I just wanted to see if it worked. I ran the Winchester cases over a .257 expander ball and then over a 7mm expander (I never had a .264 then) and then full length sized as there is a 1 1/2 degree difference in the shoulders of .22-250 and .250 cases. This was 20 years ago and I'd never heard of annealing and was basically teaching myself. I worked those necks pretty hard from .224 to .284 and then back to .257 but I just junked the last of those cases last year. These days I'd just run a .22-250 case into a .250 Sav FL die and the shoulders would fire form out the 1.5 degrees on the first firing.

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Originally Posted by Elvis
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i kinda wondered if 6.5 Creedmoor brass resized and shot in a 250 Savage would work ?


Or neck up .22-250 cases. When I got my first .250 that's what I did despite having .250 Sav cases. I just wanted to see if it worked. I ran the Winchester cases over a .257 expander ball and then over a 7mm expander (I never had a .264 then) and then full length sized as there is a 1 1/2 degree difference in the shoulders of .22-250 and .250 cases. This was 20 years ago and I'd never heard of annealing and was basically teaching myself. I worked those necks pretty hard from .224 to .284 and then back to .257 but I just junked the last of those cases last year. These days I'd just run a .22-250 case into a .250 Sav FL die and the shoulders would fire form out the 1.5 degrees on the first firing.


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I have been using the Hornady brass with no complaints.

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I had to quit using mine once I could no longer get brass. Good to hear Hornady is making it.


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Originally Posted by dennisinaz
I had to quit using mine once I could no longer get brass. Good to hear Hornady is making it.



Dennis, I used my Lapua 22 250 for some of mine. Fireform without a bullet and then your 250 die.

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Originally Posted by forks
Where can I buy best quality .250 Savage brass. I'm not competent at turning brass necks. I have checked Lapua and Nosler. Nothing there.



get some 22-250 and neck up. get a 6mm expander ball if you want to do it in 2 steps


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I've been handloading 250Sav and 250Sav AI for 40+ years and never ran across "bad" or low-quality brass from Remington, Winchester, Hornady, or Jamison; of course I don't reload 'em until they blow apart either. I see brass currently listed reasonably priced from several sources that I just checked. Why on earth would you want to go to the trouble of converting brass from a different caliber when its readily available?

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Lot of options seek and you will find.

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Brass, ammo and 22-250 brass if one wants to neck up.

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Thanks for all the input. I was hoping to find some Nosler or Lapua as I know there specs are quite good. I will buy a bunch of one of those that have been suggested and spec them out myself. Thanks again all.

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Originally Posted by forks
Thanks for all the input. I was hoping to find some Nosler or Lapua as I know there specs are quite good. I will buy a bunch of one of those that have been suggested and spec them out myself. Thanks again all.


that`s why i brought up about reforming 6.5 Creedmoor brass because Lapua makes 6.5 Creedmoor brass,i think it could be reformed not sure ?


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Originally Posted by Offshoreman
I've been handloading 250Sav and 250Sav AI for 40+ years and never ran across "bad" or low-quality brass from Remington, Winchester, Hornady, or Jamison; of course I don't reload 'em until they blow apart either. I see brass currently listed reasonably priced from several sources that I just checked. Why on earth would you want to go to the trouble of converting brass from a different caliber when its readily available?


Have you been measuring neck walls for uniformity? I've come across some real junk from Remington.

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Me too--which often resulted in poor accuracy. Which is why it was very refreshing to find Hornady's brass.

Before that was using the old trick of necking up .22-250 brass.


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I did order 150 new Winchester cases through Midway. I'll measure, weigh and segregate. Oh well I enjoy the work!

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another thought neck down 300 savage ?


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First time I offered freebies and no response.


very nice gesture


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Originally Posted by pete53
another thought neck down 300 savage ?


The 250 has far more taper in the case body than the 300. That makes it more of a major reforming operation than a simple neck down.

The best plan is to secure some Hornady brass or neck up some quality 22-250 stuff.

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I would be tempted to use Lapua and neck up. There is also quality 6mm & 22 Creedmoor brass that could work. But the Hornaday would be simple.


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Checked my brass, it appears my 300 Savage ain't close to the 250-3000. A 22-250 would be my choice if I didn't have brass. Back in the day I loaded a 22-250 Norma case with Bullseye and no bullet, just a wax plug and fired it. It was just about perfect and just ran it through my 250 Savage die. A quick glance appears that the Creedmoor brass would work.

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Butch,

When the Creedmoor first came out, and brass wasn't very available, I formed it from .22-250s using the Cream of Wheat method. Worked perfectly....


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Butch,

When the Creedmoor first came out, and brass wasn't very available, I formed it from .22-250s using the Cream of Wheat method. Worked perfectly....



After looking at my Creedmoor brass, it should be perfect.

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Yep!

It's amazing how various companies keep inventing "new" rounds, yet somehow the cases are often closely related to much older ones. The first time I saw a 6.5 Creedmoor case, it looked to me a LOT like the 6.5/.250 RCBS Improved, which differed mainly in having a 28 instead of 30-degree shoulder.


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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
Yep!

It's amazing how various companies keep inventing "new" rounds, yet somehow the cases are often closely related to much older ones. The first time I saw a 6.5 Creedmoor case, it looked to me a LOT like the 6.5/.250 RCBS Improved, which differed mainly in having a 28 instead of 30-degree shoulder.


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