Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles PRVI Brass

Any of you guys recommend this brass? For some of the cartridges that I load for, other brands are hard to find but PRVI is available.

I've used enough of it , not to worry about it.
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i've heard it was right on par with Norma brass. Anyone else hear this as I would like to know also....

I've used a couple of bags in different calibers. The bag of 7mm-08 I picked up only had 31 pieces that I could fit a primer in. The rest of that bag the pockets were too small for a LR primer and too large for a SR primer. They're in the bucket waiting for some other members before recycling them.

Bbear... that sucks

That's a shame. Prvi brass is better than Rem/Win. It's made to design specs - the correct length and rim diameter/thickness for rimmed cartridges. It's not polished after forming. You can still see the annealing on the necks, but that's cosmetic.

I use it for my 303s, 22 Hornet, 222 and 223 Rem, 308 and 7.62x54R. I no longer have a 7.62x39mm, but used it for those loads. I prefer Lapua in this last case because of the increased case capacity.

WRT to your brass, maybe you can uniform the pockets or donate the good ones to someone that's learning to reload.

I've used PRVI brass in 9.3X62, 7mm-08, and .223 Rem.

The 7mm-08 brass had very tight primer pockets, a little chamfering helped. I had to use my press to prime the cases as it was too hard to do with the hand priming tool I usually use.

The 9.3X62 and .223 brass has been excellent! Some of the 9.3X62 has been reloaded 5 times with no loss of any cases.

I would buy more if I needed it.

Have only used it in 8x57 and 6.5x55. Primer pockets were fine on the batches I got. I sort by case neck concentricity* and both batches were very good, I think I only culled about 8 or 10 out of 100 for having more than .001" thickness variation. That's a bit better percentage than the average Remington and Winchester brass I've measured.

The price is right and quality is fine - as well as availability. No one on the net that I could find had 8x57 or 6.5x55 available except for expensive Lapua or Norma brass so I'm happy to use the Prvi.




* yeah, I know, sorting case necks to use in a Yugo M24/47. What can I say, old habits die hard...

Where are you all buying PRVI brass?

I got mine from Graf & Sons.

http://www.grafs.com/

Although now that I look at the 8x57 and 6.5x55 again their prices have gone up a bit.

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Yep some do have tight pockets but chamfering fixes it.

Have used lots of it in 308, but from factory ammo which I reloaded.

I am still reloading a lot of it 10 years later. Some of those cases would have been reloaded 10 times.