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Lapua or Norma brass I know they are both good but one has got to be better than the other.Who can tell me the better one?
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Surrell, I have used both and they are both great brass. Lapua does not make brass for 300 Wsm so Norma is what I use. I retired some of the first brass I bought after 15 loadings and never had a split neck! I use Lapua in my Br and my 6.5 and have never had any problems with them either. Can not go wrong with either in my opinion.
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Surrell, I have used both and have found both to be quality brass. A shooter would most likely wear out several barrels testing for a “best”.
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I recently bought an annealing machine and plan on annealing all my brass after 3 firings. Hopefully this will help maintain better neck tension and extend the brass life even farther. Is this often enough or should I anneal after every firing?
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Hey Steve, which brand of annealer did you buy?
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Benchsorce and love it.
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Surrell,
The only difference between Lapua and Norma are the flash holes! Both are the best of the best. Lapua punch the flash holes and Norma drill out the flash holes! I shoot Lapua when I can get them in a particular cartridge and shoot Norma or RWS on everything else. If you have Lapua, deburr the flash holes and you are good to go. Norma cases do not require deburring.
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Surrell, With one of my supply orders, I for some reason bought 50 pieces of Norma brass. When it came, I put it up and actually forgot I had it. When we chambered the dasher, I got to looking around and uncovered it. The first thing that I did was get out the calipers and started measuring a few cases. What I determined was, as compared to lapua, the norma was thicker and shorter. The necks appear to be a couple .001 thicker and the OAL maybe .010 to .015 shorter. I actually primed one and took it out in the backyard and shot it, brought it in side and remeasured. The neck measured almost .015 and the OAL was 1.300 + a little. I think the specs recommend a maximum OAL of 1.555 for the dasher and after having to trim the norma brass to say 1.300 to get them all alike, I determined that the .025″ was too short to try to deal with the carbon ring. I will say that the lapua is also short of the allowed max, but is roughly .015 longer that the norma. The norma brass is high quality, more expensive, and I guess if the shooter keeps a good eye on the chamber neck, being short should not matter. Somebody should have experience with this. Let us hear from you. Thanks, WWE
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