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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.
I prefer my headstamps to be accurate when possible
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.

Hornady is golden in my .270.

I'm a cheap azz.... I stocked up on the Winchester flavor of Crod1972's 1x brass with the "scribe mark" long ago. Nothing has refused to die because of the brass I'm shooting.

I forgot Lapua, I like it too.

Orion,

Long ago Winchester .270 brass tended to be very good. I bought some of the same pressure-test brass from him, and it worked very well. But the last batch I bought wasn't so good, and neither was new Winchester brass purchased at a local store.

In fact, the last time I was more than satisfied with Winchester brass was 2014, when I bought some .222 Remingtons that turned out to be very good. After that about half the new Winchester cases I bought in various cartridges were rejects, for various reasons.

I like Lapua also, but they don't make 270 brass. it's not worth necking down or up what they make to fit a 270 !!!!!!
I will stay with Federal in this chambering

I did my 270 brass search about 6 months ago I checked everything on the market and decided on the Hornaday 250 pc bag. If Starline had been available during my search I would have bought that stuff off the reputation of their handgun brass but I didn't see any for sale, they must have just started cranking it out in 270 Winchester.

Looking over the prices now it would have cost me about $10-15 bucks more to get the Starline.

But then I had real good results with 100 pc of Hornaday brass in my HB target .243 Winchester, originally bought 5 boxes of the Hornaday factory load they make in 70/75 grain loading when I put the Winchester Model_70 Heavy Varmint together. Shot that to break in the water piped sized stainless steel barrel & kept the 100 pc of brass to work up my own load.

I shot that stuff relentlessly till it needed to be annealed then did that & shot another 5x. Was running a Sierra 75 grainer at 3200 fps so it was no powder-puff target load. Surprisingly the primer pockets stayed decent all the way thru. Don't know if you can ask more from a piece of brass than that, must have trimmed them back down to minimum length 3-4×....lol

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I use Norma.

Sir,

Understood. For my casual shooting, my primary goal is accuracy. As long as I am MOA or better, accuracy wise, I am good. My load development typically starts at a mid-range book load and ends with the first sub MOA load that I find. I do not typically chase FPS (high pressure), nor work to shave thousandths off a sub-MOA load. O.K., I am lazy in addition to cheap. I shoot to have fun.

I have not checked recent batches of Winchester brass. However, in a previous life when I was weighing a representative sample of all cases, Winchester was the better than most. Maybe that has changed in recent times and I just haven't noticed it. However, at the moment, what I have on hand seems to be working acceptably such that it is not a concern for me.

Take care !

Yep, I had a Sr moment there! ha

As much 270 and 30-06 brass as Ive picked up at the range in the last 25 years I tend to prefer the Remington brass. Not a fan of WW or Federal at all.

What issues have people been seeing with the current Winchester brass? I just picked up my first few bags for a .270win, also a Fieldcraft.

I'm surprised to see so many people liking the Hornady brass. I've had nothing good come from them lately. I had a batch of new unfired 7mm-08 brass that wouldn't chamber, turned out the web/base was out of spec. Had a batch of new unfired .358win brass that wouldn't fit the proper size bolt face/extractor or shell holders. Had a batch of something else blow primers out of the pockets no matter what the charge was right from the first firing. Now I have a batch of new unfired .280AI that is getting split necks after only 1 to 3 firings. I've tried to anneal a bunch to see if that helps but I shouldn't need to anneal virgin brass. I only set shoulder back the minimum .001" to .002" based on my once fired brass measurements. Never any issues with any of these rifles with other brass.

FWIW, I stick with Lapua when I can, but have had good results with Remington and Starline in a couple chamberings I couldn't get Lapua for.

I’m using Hornady in most things now and have found it very good.