I've been looking around for .220 Swift Brass and noticed a considerable difference in price between the Winchester and Norma brass. Is there enough difference between the two brands to justify the additional cost?
Win brass is junk IMO in the .220S. With my .220S I stuck to Remington & Norma brass only. I have Norma brass from the 70s that is still being reloaded today.
The Win brass I had, had way to many case seperations (under 3 reloads on most), split necks with a few loadings on them. My Rem brass has a mili fraction of bad cases over Win brass in all those years.
My Rem brass has 20+ loads on them, the Norma brass 50+ on what I have from the 70-80s. Out of 500 Norma I lost 20 cases in that time. I loaded at 3600 FPS.
Originally Posted By: NastyDaddy101How do you keep your primer pockets tight with 50+ loading?
I have never had any issues with loose primer pockets with Rem/Norma, but did with lots of Win. brass over the years with the same load.
Same with 10K rounds of .223 thats been loaded 40x+, never had a loose pocket yet with any of the brass I load from military to commercial brass.
I had the same problem with split case necks, I went to Remington and never had another issue.Originally Posted By: 5spdWin brass is junk IMO in the .220S. With my .220S I stuck to Remington & Norma brass only. I have Norma brass from the 70s that is still being reloaded today.
The Win brass I had, had way to many case seperations (under 3 reloads on most), split necks with a few loadings on them. My Rem brass has a mili fraction of bad cases over Win brass in all those years.
My Rem brass has 20+ loads on them, the Norma brass 50+ on what I have from the 70-80s. Out of 500 Norma I lost 20 cases in that time. I loaded at 3600 FPS.
When I had my swift, all I used was win cases and was not very impressed myself. Like above poster, sometimes even 2nd, 3rd firing would split, junk...This was happening about 1 out of 5 cases, not a hot load by any means, 55s at 3900 from a 26" bbl and IMR4064.
Would have tried Norma, but didn't have the rifle for more then a year and the 300 wins I bought lasted me.