Military surplus brass is capable of really good groups. These pix were formed by 155 grain bullets with minimal brass prep. The primer pockets were swaged and I trimmed the flash holes. Finally, they were all trimmed to 2.000" I should point out that none of the cases were sorted by weight or had their necks trimmed.
Milsurp brass is capable of fine performance. Reloaders should not get too carried away with the hype surrounding expensive, European made cases. High end, expensive brass has its place to be sure, but for hunters or military rifle shooters, shoot the milsurp stuff and save.
The first picture shows a five shot group at 100 yd using 155 Sierra MKs. It measured 0.459 inches. The overall group size for ten different powders at 100 yd was 1.007 inches
This second picture shows the best group using 155 grain Hornady VMAXes. It meaasured 0.481 inches. Slightly larger than the Sierras.
Overall, from my rifle, the Hornady AMAXes produced an average groups size of 0.715 for ten powders. Granted, this was only at 100 yards, but it formed the basis for further testing.
The Hornady bullets grouped tighter as fired from my Tikka HB, with all ten powders grouping less than an inch. With the Sierras, only five of the ten powder loads did better than one inch.