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Nosler 300 Win Mag brass, very unimpressed!!!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="ericpetritz" data-source="post: 228273" data-attributes="member: 5958"><p>First off, I am the customer Kirby is referring to in this post. I have been visiting the site for quite some time now but this will serve as my first post so I would like to say hello to everyone. I will preface this post by saying I have been shooting long distance for a long time and I am a professional engineer--leading to an anal person when it comes to my rifles!!!! </p><p></p><p>Some History:</p><p>When I ordered the rifle from Kirby I sent him some Lapua brass to set the rifle up on. The problem is that by the time I received the rifle Lapua discontinued making 300 Win Brass leaving me up the proverbial creek without a paddle. I figured I would try some Nosler brass and see if it lived up to their bragging so I bought two boxes (100 brass). I came up with a load and headed to the range where I found that roughly 50% of the rounds would not chamber. I figured I must have made a mistake and seated the bullets out too far so I headed to the house and seated them in further--they still did not chamber. I then pulled the bullets and could not seat the empty brass either.</p><p></p><p>At this point I called Nosler and explained my problem. I was informed that they had seen this problem before with a specific lot of brass (the same lot I had, of course). They promptly sent me 100 new brass with a different lot number and when I tried them I found that many of them would not chamber either. Figuring that the Nosler brass was the problem and not owning any headspace gauges, I bought a bag of 50 WInchester brass to try. I tried chambering these brass straight out of the bag and found some of them did not chamber either. At this point I contacted Kirby and was instructed to send the rifle back to figure out the problem. After receiving an email from Kirby today I went and mic'd the necks of a dozen Nosler brass out of the same box as the four I sent to him and found the thickness varying up to 0.005" on the sample I checked---not good!!</p><p></p><p>I too use many, many Nosler bullets but I sure won't be using any more of their brass!!! As for the Winchester brass not chambering properly, I am sure Kirby will figure it out. Perhaps it is because I didn't full length size them before I attempted to chamber the brass??</p><p></p><p>Eric</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ericpetritz, post: 228273, member: 5958"] First off, I am the customer Kirby is referring to in this post. I have been visiting the site for quite some time now but this will serve as my first post so I would like to say hello to everyone. I will preface this post by saying I have been shooting long distance for a long time and I am a professional engineer--leading to an anal person when it comes to my rifles!!!! Some History: When I ordered the rifle from Kirby I sent him some Lapua brass to set the rifle up on. The problem is that by the time I received the rifle Lapua discontinued making 300 Win Brass leaving me up the proverbial creek without a paddle. I figured I would try some Nosler brass and see if it lived up to their bragging so I bought two boxes (100 brass). I came up with a load and headed to the range where I found that roughly 50% of the rounds would not chamber. I figured I must have made a mistake and seated the bullets out too far so I headed to the house and seated them in further--they still did not chamber. I then pulled the bullets and could not seat the empty brass either. At this point I called Nosler and explained my problem. I was informed that they had seen this problem before with a specific lot of brass (the same lot I had, of course). They promptly sent me 100 new brass with a different lot number and when I tried them I found that many of them would not chamber either. Figuring that the Nosler brass was the problem and not owning any headspace gauges, I bought a bag of 50 WInchester brass to try. I tried chambering these brass straight out of the bag and found some of them did not chamber either. At this point I contacted Kirby and was instructed to send the rifle back to figure out the problem. After receiving an email from Kirby today I went and mic'd the necks of a dozen Nosler brass out of the same box as the four I sent to him and found the thickness varying up to 0.005" on the sample I checked---not good!! I too use many, many Nosler bullets but I sure won't be using any more of their brass!!! As for the Winchester brass not chambering properly, I am sure Kirby will figure it out. Perhaps it is because I didn't full length size them before I attempted to chamber the brass?? Eric [/QUOTE]
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