Lake city match brass

[806guns]

I have seen that guys really like the 308 lake city match brass. I found some that are mainly 65,66,67 head stamp some fired from semi auto. What’s a good price point for this brass ?

 

[hlee]

List it on gun broker, with $0.01 start and no reserve. In a few days you will have your answer...

 

[806guns]

Not looking to list, just wanting to know what it’s worth

 

[RTH1800]

Why?

 

[806guns]

I have a chance to get more and want to know if I’m getting gouged

 

[RTH1800]

I would think if you can get it for 1/2 price of new W brass it would be decent deal.
One thing I have noticed is that much of what is popular or liked is due to being cheap or free.
A lot of military brass falls into this category historically.
No one would choose it over Lapua but it’s OK.

 

[806guns]

About .30 c

 

[RTH1800]

Likely not bad in today’s market IF YOU CAN RESIZE IT TO FIT YOUR CHAMBER.
Some was fired in MG’s and simply can’t be properly resized.
Good luck.

 

[sinister]

Lake City Match fired through around 1994 will most likely have been fired through M14s.

Figure four firings (three reloads) before hitting stretching-thinning boundaries.

 

[bax]

I have about 100 loaded rounds of LC Match. I terms of quality it is about the same as Lake City LR brass - about 95% as good as Lapua. "95 percent" because I get a few more flyers with the quality Lake City brass and because I have to do more work to get it working - mostly uniform primer pockets and cut the burrs out of the flash holes. Lapua is usually better about both of those issues. If you anneal the brass and use sufficient lube, resizing is easy. In my case, when loaded the same, LC LR, LC Match, and Lapua all shoot to about the same point of impact.

In 2014 I bought 1,000 pieces of LC LR, I paid $190. Today, if I could find it more LC LR, I would buy another thousand and pay a bit more per piece.
If I recall correctly, Lake City made LC Match then they made LC Long Range but it is basically the same brass.

edit: I get way more than 4 reloads before I have stretch-thinning. YMMV

 

[sinister]

Generally, Lake City "Match" cases have a knurl groove around the base about a quarter-inch up from the base, while Long Range is nearly the same as 7.62mm Ball cases (the primer pocket is not crimped).

 

[806guns]

If I full length size the brass, I can get it to camber in the gun. Cases vary but using the headspace comparator from hornady it’s bumping it back .006

 

[Hunt]

I was given 100 pcs. I have 12 firings on it and primer pockets are still tight. I have no idea what it was orginally used in.

 

[806guns]

I was given 100 pcs. I have 12 firings on it and primer pockets are still tight. I have no idea what it was orginally used in.

Wow thats good to hear. How many times do you have to trim the brass and do you anneal every time.

 

[Hunt]

Wow thats good to hear. How many times do you have to trim the brass and do you anneal every time.

I trim about every 2nd or 3rd firing. I anneal every 3rd firing. It's tough brass and is considerably thicker than Rem/Winchester brass.

 

[bax]

"Generally, Lake City "Match" cases have a knurl groove around the base"

My LC Match doesn't have a knurled groove, it looks like regular brass - smooth above the extractor groove.

 

[806guns]

Mine is the same way no knurl

 

[sinister]

M852 has "Match" in its headstamp. Not sure when they stopped loading 173-grain Match.

Long Range is stamped "LR."

Last 40mm can of 96 Match brass I bought at Camp Perry is all knurled, but I haven't seen it released in a long while (since M118 LR and Mark 318 are the preferred 7.62 loads for M24s, Mark 11s, and M110s and has pretty much replaced Match since the M14 went away in 1994).

 

[806guns]

Second batch I got has some LR NM ? What’s it’s origin ?