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« Last post by Abilene on Yesterday at 10:52:52 PM »
Since I already voted, it won't let me vote again for brass shells. But I also don't use them very often these days, partially because they slow me down on loading into the SxS (no crimp), and they don't always eject as well. I know some of that is the old Rem-UMC hulls needing to be annealed, because even though they go in round, the mouth is a bit out of round after firing. However, Mako (with one dorsal) I have not had any problems with lack of oomph out of my brass loads.
But I do still like shooting the all brass at times. My reloading has been split between two locations with limited time for a while now, but that is changing as I get things consolidated and moved over the next year, so hopefully will get some more brass loading done. I've also got a lot of Alcan brass hulls, which are thicker than the REM-UMC / Winchester / Magtech but not as thick as RMC. They use a Remington 57-style primer (I think that's it) that looks like a 209 but is smaller. Fortunately I have a couple thousand of those. One problem I have with those is that a lot of them 2.5" but some are different lengths up to about 2.75". When firing them, I have to pay attention that I'm shooting the longest ones first, followed by shorter, or they will stick in the chamber from prior fouling. They need to be all trimmed to 2.5" but I have no way to do that.
Mako, yes the RMC hulls are the machined ones with the same internal dimensions as a plastic hull and use 209's. They're still around, last I looked those were about $8 each. I have a half dozen of them but don't use them much any more because the primer pockets are so tight that priming and depriming are both very difficult.