Lapua or Hornady match grade brass? Help

[ShootnMathews]

I've always used Lapua brass exclusively for my long range rifles but I'm not looking to spend a lot of money at the moment. I see Hornady had 50ct boxes of "Match grade" cases and was wondering if anyone had had good success with them or if I should just stay with Lapua??

 

[338 dude]

I've always used Lapua brass exclusively for my long range rifles but I'm not looking to spend a lot of money at the moment. I see Hornady had 50ct boxes of "Match grade" cases and was wondering if anyone had had good success with them or if I should just stay with Lapua??

Lapua

 

[ShootnMathews]

Lapua

Thanks. That's what I'm thinking as well.

 

[Dmagna]

Hornady is my last choice in brass. Lapua is way better

 

[BlackTail30]

I think Hornady brass can be serviceable. Is it is a good as Lapua? Of course not, but depending on what you're doing I think it can work fine. I got on the 6.5 PRC train really early and was able to get a case of both the 143 ELD-X and 147 ELD-M ammo which are both loaded in Hornady brass and both rounds shoot so good I haven't even bothered reloading for that gun yet. Also, during the "plandemic" when no ammo was around I found some 30-06 loaded by Unknown Munitions in Idaho which was using Hornady brass and the 178 ELD-M and that stuff hammers in my gun. All that to say, my limited experience with Hornady stuff has been positive.

 

[Mike Matteson]

We know what Lapua brass is. The thing is like and old friend said. You spend a $1.00, $2,98. The $1 for the first time and it didn't work. The 2nd time the $1.98 for the right item. So you end up spending a dollar, $2.98. You can figure it out from there.

 

[ShootnMathews]

We know what Lapua brass is. The thing is like and old friend said. You spend a $1.00, $2,98. The $1 for the first time and it didn't work. The 2nd time the $1.98 for the right item. So you end up spending a dollar, $2.98. You can figure it out from there.

Yeah I agree. I bit the bullet and ordered the Lapua. It's never done me wrong.

 

[nksmfamjp]

but now you will never know what match grade means on the Hornady box??

 

[Lonewolf74]

Few years ago I would of said Lapua…these day's I'm thinking Peterson is the best brass

 

[RWE]

You know, I am just going to have to get some Lapua or Petersons brass and try it out since y'all think Hornady Match is bad... That stuff should tickle me to death! Maybe this is a bad idea!!

 

[Rick Richard]

Lapua. Hornady is "hit or miss" on their quality in my opinion.

 

[Mike Matteson]

I have both. Depending on what I can get my grubby hands on too. I got 500 case of 280AI and they varied several thousand in length. Now I haven't taken time to measure and of the Lapua case yet. Presently haven't needed any to use yet. I am glad I did at the time. Prices have gone up by about $300 on 280AI cases from Peterson. The first 500 were about $468.00 and the second lot was $740 or there about.
Brass cost are going out of sight. I waited about a year after ordering them before getting them each time.
I have several belted mags I reload for. They don't made any Peterson of Lapua brass for 338WM yet. So I am going to have expand the 300WM brass to make them.

 

[QuietTexan]

I think Hornady brass can be serviceable.

X2. It's functional, it works, and it's a lower cost option. I'm not in a huge rush to feed Lapua, Alpha or Peterson cases to my ARs or M-1, so it has a place in my reloading room. They take more work to prep and match up into batches, but you can get 20-case groups that are pretty well matched to each other capacity-wise, and those can go out to distance well enough. 3x 20ct boxes of 26 Nosler resulted in two 15-case batches that are close enough together to be good. The rest still shoot just not tight enough together to be considered matched. More than enough cases for a hunting trip, not enough for a range rifle.

I have some barrels that will shoot about 1" at 100 yards feeding them basically anything, so not every round I load has to be the most best perfect ideal tuned secret sauce thing ever. Sometimes I have friends that just want to hear a 12" gong go DUNK and Hornady/Rem/Win/PPU/etc all fit the bill out to respectable distances.

 

[ShootnMathews]

You know, I am just going to have to get some Lapua or Petersons brass and try it out since y'all think Hornady Match is bad... That stuff should tickle me to death! Maybe this is a bad idea!!

Lapua shoots fantastic in my LR rifles. I've never once been disappointed.