38 Special Wadcutter Brass

Maven wrote: For what it's worth, I read in one of the gun mags. that .38Spl. wadcutter/target brass wasn't designed to stand up to many resizings or reloads.  That matches (no pun intended) my experience with the Rem. target loads brass as I got many splits after 2 resizings.  Btw, the Rem. HBWC's which runfiverun referred to in post #2 are superbly accurate if you can still purchase thme (Midway, et. al.?).

I haven't had that problem with splitting using the Winchester match brass, at least so far. However, Federal match brass that I had a few years back would get longitudinal splits on the case body on the first reloads. I scrapped the whole darn pile. Never have used the Remington match brass though. With one exception, I've had issues with Federal brass for rifles for many years, usually because it's too soft last year I was given 1,100 rounds of once fired Federal Gold medal match .308 brass. Supposed to be good stuff right? from the first 100 rounds I tried to load, I rejected 60 percent because the primer pockets were way too loose. Some would not even hold the primer. :X I'm at the point in my life where you cannot run fast enough to give me Federal brass for any cartridge. The one exception? I needed some brass for my .300 Win. mag. and the gun shop was out of Winchester brass. They did have 100 rounds of federal brass so I bought those. Somebody at fedral must have screwed up because that brass has been reloaded 5 times and the primer pockets are still tight, the necks haven't split and the ammo is accurate. I'll probably anneal the necks to make sure they'll still be good for the next time I load them up. Paul B.