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What is best, quality, not price.

Current Internet info is that Win. is no longer their own, Lapua doesn't do 270 WCF, is Nosler or Norma best available?

Am using Hornday in 25-06, seems very good.

How about Starline or Privi???

If you can buy starline 270 win brass, thats what id get. New Winchester brass is garbage. Ive always just used R-P, FC, and old Winchester (WW) brass. I cant even remember what brass i used last month when i loaded for my buddies 270, but with 130's and 60gr of H4831 powder we were shooting 1/2to 3/4" 5 shot groups. Questions like these leave a lot to be desired. "Best" is often a very subjective matter at best.. What is it exactly you are looking for?

I have had good results with Federal and old Winchester brands. If I had some Nosler I’d shoot those too.

I have had very good success with Hornady .

They do make .30-06 which can be necked down . . .

Current Nosler and Hornady brass is top notch giving a slight edge to Nosler.
I think necking down 06 brass is a poor idea. Necking up 280 brass give you a proper length, but still a poor idea.
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We are living in an era of an abundance of excellent brass, bullets and powder. Take advantage of it.

I've been using older WW and PRVI for quite few years in a couple of 270's. I just received a new 1:9 Fieldcraft 270 and needed new brass to start loading for it so ordered a batch of 250 Starlines. I use a lot of Starline handgun brass and this will be my first go with their rifle brass.

In recent years I've been using a bunch of different brands of rifle brass, because so much of the stuff from "traditional" manufacturers isn't nearly as good as it used to be.

The new brands I've used have included such commonly known brands as Hornady, Lapua, Norma, Nosler, and not-so-common brands including Jagemann, Jamison, Peterson, Prvi Partizan, Quality Cartridge, RWS, Sellier & Bellot and Starline. All have beaten the traditional stuff in consistent dimensions, and often in toughness. Some of them, however, don't make .270 Winchester brass, but most do. Others must be ordered, and you can easily find prices on-line--but quite often I buy Hornady locally, because a couple of stores stock it, and have found it consistently good, and relatively inexpensive compared to others.

Just restocked my 270 WCF brass stores with 250 new Hornady cases. All my old R-P 270 brass is getting recycled (if anyone is interested send a pm have about 100 pc unknown reload count from 1x to ??) Have about 100 Nosler cases that are on reload x2.

For years I'd buy the Remington 130 Cor Loc factory ammo when they'd go on sale in the fall for $7.99 a box, they shot OK in my M_77 tanger & the brass was good enough for me.

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Thanks, I use Hornady in my 2506.

If had not just stocked up on Federal GM for 270, 308, 3006 would probably just go Hornady across the board!

A few years ago one of my local gun stores had primed Federal tear down 270 brass on sale, bought a bag of 400 cases and have zero complaints

I've found Hornady brass to be very good in .270 & .308, plus available locally as well.

Another vote for Hornady brass. Been using some in my 270 and 300 Win mag and it's been fine.

I was hoping to find Hornady 270 brass locally last week, but the four shops I checked here in Helena had none. WW was available in a couple places and one shop had a box of Nosler.

If cost is not a driving factor get RWS brass. It is very tough and uniform and it lasts so long and there are few to no culls that it offsets the price to some extent.

Lapua is good but I don't think it is worth re-forming 30-06 cases when other cases are available. When I want inexpensive brass I go PPU. One batch had unusually small primer pockets but that is the only issue I have had. They are thicker and have less volume than some other cases so work up accordingly.

Starline pistol brass is good have not tried their rifle brass yet. There are several other relatively new companies making brass now. Most have gotten good reviews but no first hand experience. Alpha, Jameson, Sig, Peterson, and a couple others.

I've used quite a few different brands, mostly old production. Lately I've bought a lot of Hornady and I think it's the best bang for the buck.

RWS, Nosler, older WW , Federal and some RP in .270 . I've used Jagemann and Sig Sauer in 300 WM, good stuff.

What's in your wallet?
Is your rig accurate enough to find the difference?

It takes a lot of distance, and/or talent and experience, and/or optics, and the barrel/bedding, to find the +/- of a component like brass. Even brass life becomes a balance with the more expensive brass relative to something like Starline, or Federal/Winchester/Remington. These days, Starline has been moving in as the availability and variable quality of the legacy products has been less than ideal in some cases, but it's not available for every possibility.

It depends, and at the moment it depends on what you can actually get.

When I buy brass it's usually Remington, Winchester, or Hornady. I wasn't aware Winchester wasn't available anymore. Reforming 06 brass used to be the most popular way to get .270. But there's a little difference in length and the reformed brass will be about .050 shorter than factory .270. It won't matter if this is all you use but later on after many rounds fired it can erode the neck ahead of the brass and if you try to use regular length brass it may expand in this eroded area and stick on extraction so I've never used reformed 06 brass in my rifle.

WW will do nicely and it's relatively thin so it holds most loads easily and no high pressure issues. As far as lasting, I'm still using a few pieces from the 90s.