by Rod_outbak » 27 Jun 2018, 8:59 am
Yeah....Not shooting grasshoppers for meat.
Shooting them to reduce the plague that tries to attack me in my own garden when I walk around at night.
Year 7 of the worst drought in recorded history, and the grasshoppers are still breeding like crazy....sigh.
[And also because pokking grasshoppers sunrise & sunset is a freaking awesome exercise routine...]
I do have a good 70+ kite hawks who think I'm Father Christmas, though...Some of them seem too fat to fly any more.
I've one batch of Remington brass that I bought new (unprimed) for the 7mm-08, and I've had to deep-six the whole lot. Kept getting primers falling out, on the second loading.. At the same time, the Federal brass(resized down from .308), and the Norma, brass are both on their 5th reload, and only just starting to see the occasional split neck in the Federals.
Some of the Hornady 'Match' .308 ammo seems to have a crimp to keep the primer in, which makes them 'sticky' when de-priming the fired case. Not overly impressed with that, but I have enough brass these days that I dont need to buy any more of the Hornady gear, and once they've been reloaded, you've sorted it out anyway.
One surprise has been the Highland/PPU brass. It's pretty rough when you first reload it, but once it's been resized and trimmed etc, it seems to last well, and is solidly built.
Not sure if it'd be consistent enough for match ammo, but for everyday pokking, it's decent brass.
Sure as eggs I'd be buying it before I'll buy any more Remington brass!
I havent seen any Tikka brass in the flesh; I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
Sako used to make really nice brass, but I havent seen any of that for decades.
---------------------
Sharing the extreme love with cats in Outback QLD