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Bad batch of Lapua Brass
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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Duerr" data-source="post: 975920" data-attributes="member: 32685"><p>The Smith test fired the Rifle before it left his shop and he was shooting 49.0gr of RL 22 and the 105gr Berger. He advised that I start out with a load of 47.5 After fire forming...............Which I did. The Berger manual gave a max load of 40.0 IMR 4064 shooting the 80gr Berger Varmint Bullet, I was using 38.0....................I did notice that when seating the primers that on a lot of cases the primers went in with very little resistance. </p><p> Today I found 20 cases that you could just drop the primer into the primer pocket. In all respect this is just bad brass. I would not have thought much about it but at $1 a case. That's inexcusable.</p><p> Travis told me that he shoots Winchester brass and finds that it shoots just as good as Lapua.</p><p> </p><p> Saturday I will be shooting with 48.7gr of Reloader 22 and Cronographing the loads. Four five shot groups and then four five shot groups shooting 49.0gr.</p><p> </p><p> I have mixed feelings about the Lapua brass but will give them the benefit of my bad experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Duerr, post: 975920, member: 32685"] The Smith test fired the Rifle before it left his shop and he was shooting 49.0gr of RL 22 and the 105gr Berger. He advised that I start out with a load of 47.5 After fire forming...............Which I did. The Berger manual gave a max load of 40.0 IMR 4064 shooting the 80gr Berger Varmint Bullet, I was using 38.0....................I did notice that when seating the primers that on a lot of cases the primers went in with very little resistance. Today I found 20 cases that you could just drop the primer into the primer pocket. In all respect this is just bad brass. I would not have thought much about it but at $1 a case. That's inexcusable. Travis told me that he shoots Winchester brass and finds that it shoots just as good as Lapua. Saturday I will be shooting with 48.7gr of Reloader 22 and Cronographing the loads. Four five shot groups and then four five shot groups shooting 49.0gr. I have mixed feelings about the Lapua brass but will give them the benefit of my bad experience. [/QUOTE]
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