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Keep an eye on any new Nosler Brass! Update
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<blockquote data-quote="Engineering101" data-source="post: 1282998" data-attributes="member: 63138"><p>Mark A</p><p> </p><p>Thanks a ton for posting your findings! I have a bad habit of buying a sh*tload of brass when I find it so I haven't bought much in the past year or so since I sort of have a lifetime supply. Anyway I WAS a big Nosler fan even though word was their brass was made by Norma. It was always closely weight sorted in each box and I knew to buy the same batch which I did. All was good.</p><p> </p><p>NOW THAT THEY MAKE THEIR OWN ALL BETS ARE OFF! Interestingly I did just buy a couple bags each of Winchester brand 270 and 300 WSM. I prefer Winchester when I can get it because their metallurgy makes it tougher (and faster to work harden) than other brass. That toughness eliminates blown primer pockets unless I do something really crazy in load development. I weight sorted the 100 pieces of 270 WSM brass and it had a 10 grain spread! That is worse than it was in the past where it would have been 5 grains. I still expect to use it and have already processed it into 264 WSM brass. When dealing with that kind of brass I just drop the load as I cross 50 count box boundaries to maintain the velocity the same as the lighter weight brass produced. I'll be interested to see if the 300 WSM brass has as big a spread. The Norma 300 WSM brass I have is much tighter at about 3.5 grains across 100 pieces. The gun industry just keeps getting more and more "interesting" as in the old Chinese curse - may you live in interesting times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engineering101, post: 1282998, member: 63138"] Mark A Thanks a ton for posting your findings! I have a bad habit of buying a sh*tload of brass when I find it so I haven't bought much in the past year or so since I sort of have a lifetime supply. Anyway I WAS a big Nosler fan even though word was their brass was made by Norma. It was always closely weight sorted in each box and I knew to buy the same batch which I did. All was good. NOW THAT THEY MAKE THEIR OWN ALL BETS ARE OFF! Interestingly I did just buy a couple bags each of Winchester brand 270 and 300 WSM. I prefer Winchester when I can get it because their metallurgy makes it tougher (and faster to work harden) than other brass. That toughness eliminates blown primer pockets unless I do something really crazy in load development. I weight sorted the 100 pieces of 270 WSM brass and it had a 10 grain spread! That is worse than it was in the past where it would have been 5 grains. I still expect to use it and have already processed it into 264 WSM brass. When dealing with that kind of brass I just drop the load as I cross 50 count box boundaries to maintain the velocity the same as the lighter weight brass produced. I'll be interested to see if the 300 WSM brass has as big a spread. The Norma 300 WSM brass I have is much tighter at about 3.5 grains across 100 pieces. The gun industry just keeps getting more and more "interesting" as in the old Chinese curse - may you live in interesting times. [/QUOTE]
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