PA Plumber
Well-Known Member
I have some of their 280 AI cases and have more back ordered.
Guess I'll have to keep an eye on them.
Guess I'll have to keep an eye on them.
Orkan,They are the only two brass manufacturers I will recommend. I have had extensive experience with nearly every brass manufacturer. Those aforementioned two companies "get it."
Everyone else seems content to make a quick buck off unsuspecting shooters with low expectations, bad service, and no ability to hold lot-to-lot consistency. Yet there are glowing reviews for all of it all over the internet. Just goes to show how low most shooters expectations are.
I had purchased 100 pcs 243 brass from Peterson 3 or 4 years ago and found the flash holes had burrs and ragged edges. I called and they asked if I could send some pictures or return the box for a replacement. I sent the box back in and they sent me a new box of 100. The flash holes were better but still not as clean a punch out as they should be. I can't complain about their service as they did replace the product but I haven't purchased any more brass from them. I purchased some Alpha 22 CM brass a few months ago thru Brownell's and I'll have to say, it is stellar brass.Before you folks jump all over me, please understand this is my experience from this company. First, I want to say the brass when it arrives from their company is packaged very well. I had no issues with my first firing of any of their brass I used. A few cases, after the second firing, split. This was specifically my 6x47 Lapua I was using. After the third firing of the same lot, I had a few more split. When I went to resize them again, I had approximately 5 cases of 55 split the necks. I called Peterson hopefully to have them remedy the issue and they requested me to send in some of the split cases from the resizer. So I did. I even sent a few cases in after it was fired as they requested. These cases were all cleaned too in a Frankford arsenal water rotary tumbler prior to resizing.
Long story short, this company does not back their product once they got the cases I sent in. They pretty much told me that I need to anneal my cases after every 1-2 firings, I need to have my resizing die adjusted properly, and that I'm more likely than not bumping my shoulder back too much. The best part is the guy told me my bushing die was definitely not setup right. The funny thing is I'm not using a Bushing die. I'm using a Redding FL resizer non-bushing with a Carbide insert. Furthermore, I checked my shoulder bump and it was around 2 thousandths with my Hornady gauge. So with that said, they pretty much didn't respond to me again after I told them what I was doing. It's been almost a month now, so I've come to the conclusion I won't be getting any reimbursement from them let alone another response. I've had Lapua cases shot out of my 6x47 Lapua fired 10+ times never had an issue with necks splitting. The last time I had necks split was when I was using Remington brass years ago.
I also purchased some of their 280 Remington brass and already noticing the same trend as well, but it's too early to make a call on that lot. Once again, I'm using a regular FL resizer and not a bushing. At any event, I want folks to know these guys don't back their product and take no fault in their brass. I will not buy their brass again after this experience. I'm a varmint hunter, and I don't have time to anneal my brass every 1-2 firings as they told me. I never had cases split using Norma, Lapua, or Winchester even like this. If Lapua makes brass buy it over this company. They lost a customer and hopefully people are aware now they don't back their products.
Is that par for the course? No wildcat experience yet. I do know that I lost about that many out of 50 necked .300 win mag up to .358 Norma but they weren't annealed and not necked in stages, just ran 300 win brass through the .358 resize die and pushed back the shoulder and opened the neck all at once. Most made it just fine.I lost a few virgin cases while fireforming to a wildcat. Split necks and bodies on about five of each out of fifty.
270 and 280AI.
On a side note another massive vote in Peterson's favour is that they make this kind of brass for cartridges like the .270 win, .300 weatherby, and other non-match non military non competition type cartridges.Sorry to hear you had a problem I have Peterson 22 creedmoor brass that has been fired 10 times no problems yet have 200, 270 win. Peterson brass I fireformed to 6.5 Sherman and I have not had a problem with them on their 4th reload now