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.

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

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

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

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

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.

PM an address and I'll send you some Federal without a headstamp.

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.

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

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?

Lot of options seek and you will find.

Recent purchases.

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

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 ?

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

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.

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

another thought neck down 300 savage ?

First time I offered freebies and no response.

very nice gesture

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes Sir, you are correct.

Butch, that was class.