Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

[buckskin52]

Thoughts or comparison's on the better of the two. Thinking about buying 400 rds of loaded match ammo. I am thinking of either Southwest match or Federal Match. It will be shot out of a M1A Match, LMT MWS and a rock river LAR8. I typically reload everything but I need new brass. It seems more practical to buy the loaded match ammo for a buck a round and just reuse the brass. Thoughts?
Thanks,
Zach

 

[ChadTRG42]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

Just buy bags of Win brass for $18 a bag.

 

[buckskin52]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

How many are in the $18 bag and where are you buying it?

 

[ChadTRG42]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

50 per bag. Grafs and other on-line places have it in stock.

 

[LawnMM]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

For what you're going to spend on 400 rounds of match ammo you can buy probably 80% of what you need to reload.

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

Southwest advertises here and seems to enjoy a good rep with site members.

 

[KNIGHT11B4]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

My money goes to Southwest Ammo, not just because of the great price.

Ive shot a ton of their ammo with great results and their customer service is top notch.

 

[clmayfield]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

I think it makes sense to buy the match ammo. Especially if it is a new stick... then you have an accuracy baseline to beat when you are handloading. I would say to have SW Ammo load them up with Lapua, which they will do, but for semi's, the brass life isn't long enough to justify the cost of Lapua. I would go with SW Ammo.

Another choice might be the new Hornady Superperformance. I bought some recently and it is some sexy looking ammo. Normally, I uniform the meplats on FGMM. The bullets are so uniform on this Superperformance that I decided it wasn't worth the effort. I haven's shot it yet, but I have read many good things.

 

[rdinak]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

Weidners has once fired military brass on sale $99 for 500 pcs. With a little prep work..you can load your own match grade ammo. and come out money ahed.

 

[coues7]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

Chad,

Can you link up to the brass for $18/bag? All I can find is $32

 

[okiefired]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

I use both and IMO Win is the better brass just because of case life. With my fairly hot handloads (45 grs Varget with 178 pills) I get about 4 loads from once fired FGMM brass, think I could get twice that with Win. I've found Fed. to be consistand though and I get it once fired for free so I use it quite a bit in bolt and auto loaders. If I had my choice of the two at equal investment, I'd choose Win.

okie

 

[buckskin52]

Re: Winchester or Federal Brass? Southwest or FGMM

I think I will give southwest a try. They have a good rep here and I am about a month or so out at least on having my new reloading room built. I just finished the french drains. Any other opinions are greatly appreciated and I thank those that took the time to respond.