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Brass: Military vs. Comercial
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2537330" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>It appears to me that it is once again someone trying to turn molehills into mountains. I have had, and still do a lot of military .308 brass. Most of mine is Lake City Match brass which is about as good as it gets. Yes, military brass has a heavier wall construction than commercial, but that is a plus not a minus when it comes to reloading. Why? It can be reloaded, in my case up to 7 or 8 times before the necks crack as opposed to 3 to 4 times for commercial brass. If you anneal it can even last longer. I will freely admit that I do not load to max pressure, I load for best accuracy which is never close to a compressed load. No matter if it's commercial or military my loads wander out of the barrel at between 2400 and 2600 fps, after all I am looking for accuracy not a race horse. I shoot 165 and 168 gr bullets for both match and hunting with the .308 and find that I can shoot them both without a change in zero, which is very handy. My go to powders are IMR 4320 and IMR 4895 approximating the 7.62 MM Lake City match. I have more than one .308 and the rounds work the same in all of them, let's simply say sub MOA. Bottom line is that the case capacity has less to do with accuracy than what you dump into the case. The less you dump in the case the lower the pressure the longer the individual cases last.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2537330, member: 118816"] It appears to me that it is once again someone trying to turn molehills into mountains. I have had, and still do a lot of military .308 brass. Most of mine is Lake City Match brass which is about as good as it gets. Yes, military brass has a heavier wall construction than commercial, but that is a plus not a minus when it comes to reloading. Why? It can be reloaded, in my case up to 7 or 8 times before the necks crack as opposed to 3 to 4 times for commercial brass. If you anneal it can even last longer. I will freely admit that I do not load to max pressure, I load for best accuracy which is never close to a compressed load. No matter if it's commercial or military my loads wander out of the barrel at between 2400 and 2600 fps, after all I am looking for accuracy not a race horse. I shoot 165 and 168 gr bullets for both match and hunting with the .308 and find that I can shoot them both without a change in zero, which is very handy. My go to powders are IMR 4320 and IMR 4895 approximating the 7.62 MM Lake City match. I have more than one .308 and the rounds work the same in all of them, let's simply say sub MOA. Bottom line is that the case capacity has less to do with accuracy than what you dump into the case. The less you dump in the case the lower the pressure the longer the individual cases last. [/QUOTE]
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