Remington 204 Ruger brass?

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So I have been waiting for relatively inexpensive 204 Ruger brass to come back on the market, and today I found Remington brass. Many moons ago, when the 204 Ruger was young, and Winchester was still making good brass, I bought my first batch of brass. It is getting long in the tooth, and some of it is laying on the p-dog fields of WY. I was hoping and waiting for Winchester to run a batch, but who know when that happens. So I bought 300 pieces of the new Remington brass, as an experiment. I have had decent luck with Remington 6.8 SPC brass, mainly as SD and Varmint loads, but accuracy was decent, even with the large primer pocket. Anyone have any thoughts on Remington brass, in 204 Ruger? Doing my small part to help them through bankruptcy proceedings.
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nope, but I must note that at least in some calibers, rem brass is hard-to-impossible to buy these days.

when I started back in the dark ages, it was commonly available & in bulk, reasonably priced. I recently went on a hunt for some.

I found 30-06, but not in very many places. places I used to order it from no longer even carry it.

I looked for some 223 for a friend who's getting started. again, hard to find for new, though I did find some once fired that was a good deal.

I shoot a 444 Marlin & all my brass for that is rem. I can't find it anywhere. Midway still shows it, but out of stock and limited availability. I can find loaded rem ammo, but it's $2 / round, too much for me to spend just to get some brass. I can get it from hornady and starline, but not so far from remington.

now with their recent bankruptcy filing, I don't think I'd expect brass for reloaders to be a priority. If you got some & like it, you might want to go ahead & get some more while you can. Or you might find yourself being forced to change to a different brand when you need some.
 
I have shot a LOT of Remington brass in several calibers. When I first got my .204's I shot both Remington and Winchester brass. Even then I thought the Remington was better, still do. A couple of years ago I bought 500 pieces of Winchester .204 brass, which I sent back to the Co. and got a refund. I would jump on some Remington .204 brass at a decent price.
I've formed several hundred pieces of .221 Fireball into 20 VT, don't think I ever lost any while forming or shooting.
 
Remington is in financial trouble for many, many reasons.

Their brass was my "go to" from the '60's on up through the turn
of the century. By 2006 after experiencing split necks on virgin
brass (one shouldn't have to anneal BEFORE the first loading),
crunched necks (not just bent, but crunched which had to be done
at the factory) I quit buying it. More expensive brass has turned
out to be less expensive all around after a few loadings.

Hope you have good luck with your Remmy .204R brass, Squeeze.
I'll just have to take your word for it.
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Originally Posted By: MatlockSomeone just posted this over on Accurate Shooter:

500 New Hornady 204 Brass

Thanks for the link, it is sold, but not to me. I am not a fan of Hornady brass. I got some very poor Hornady brass in 6.8 SPC, and I have never forgiven Hornady for that.
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I suppose some day I will have to get past that, and try them again. I view them like Nosler, they both charge a premium price for mediocre brass.

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All company's get bad brass out it seems, all the reading I've done it seems Norma is the go to for 204, then nobler, then hornady. I'm buying up t ht e 50ct boxes of gnocchi ammo and shooting it up for the brass as $25 a Box.
 
FWIW I've been using nothing but hornady brass in my 6.5 grendels and have been using a few hundred cases in 223 rem with no problems. so far as I can tell it's pretty good stuff.

but I do get where if you've had one or more bad batches it makes it hard to decide to try it again.
 
The first 300 cases landed on my door(I broke down and got 200 more, just in case I liked it). So my first impressions are it "looks good". No manufacturing/handling defects in the 300 cases. A quick check of the case length, and all were right around +.001 of trim length, which I found impressing. The only concern is it didn't look annealed, so I ran them through the BenchSource Vertex, and the cases got very discolored where heated. Not sure of what that means to the metallurgists in the crowd, but good brass usually doesn't get this discolored. We shall see how it plays out with my load development. This is getting run through an AR-15, in 204 Ruger, which can be hard on brass anyway. And I lose some to the prairie, when I shoot it, so cheaper brass softens that blow. If I get to minute of Prairie Dog, with this brass, I will be happy.

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Originally Posted By: 1badsheeAll company's get bad brass out it seems, all the reading I've done it seems Norma is the go to for 204, then nobler, then hornady. I'm buying up t ht e 50ct boxes of gnocchi ammo and shooting it up for the brass as $25 a Box.

Hey 1badshee, let us know if the flash holes are centered in the primer cup on that
Fiocchi brass.

I have loaded Fiocchi brass before, but have gave up on using it because of the offset
flash holes. (This was in .223)

I bought a bunch of Hornady 204 brass and its been good for me.

I ordered some bags of Remington 204 form Cabela's the other day.

Have not seen 204 Winchester or Remington 100ct bags for a long time.

 
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