A friend brought me a box of Lapua 6.5 Creedmore brass.

The original box says 100 cases, but apparently added more and I ended up with 152 cases.

Out of curiosity, I weighed a few, and was very surprised how close they weighed.

Then decide to weight the whole lot.

Imagine my surprise when all 152 cases were with 1 grain!!!

Absolutely fantastic.

I have a few 6.5 Creedmore rifles, and some factory ammo from Hornady and RWS.

I will try all these ammo, and some reloads, in these rifles.

I will post my results.

Lapua brass is about the best you can find.

But they are starting to get some competition from alpha and peterson.

Bertram should fly over to Finland and learn how to make brass.

Absolutely, positively, the very worst brass I have EVER seen.

The case wall thickness varies so much yiu can see it by the naked eye!

How the manage to do that is beyond me!


And Fiocchi!

They have a knack of drilling the flash hole off center!

Too much vino probably!

I remember when Hornady used to put 101 bullets in their 100 pack boxes. It used to drive me crazy having one bullet left over when I loaded them.

I remember those days, Frank you're dating yourself.

Paul

I love it one more bullet to reload.

I might still have some 101 boxes.

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Originally posted by Fjold:
I remember when Hornady used to put 101 bullets in their 100 pack boxes. It used to drive me crazy having one bullet left over when I loaded them.

I'm pretty sure your recollection is of Sierra Bullets.....as I still have more than a few boxes of them.

(edit:Sierra actually advertised the 101 count per box.)

Yes.......I am THAT old....

Kevin

I have cardboard boxes of bulk bullets that came in plastic bags.

They were supposed to hold 500 but always had more.

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:

quote:

Originally posted by Fjold:
I remember when Hornady used to put 101 bullets in their 100 pack boxes. It used to drive me crazy having one bullet left over when I loaded them.

I'm pretty sure your recollection is of Sierra Bullets.....as I still have more than a few boxes of them.

(edit:Sierra actually advertised the 101 count per box.)

Yes.......I am THAT old....

Kevin

No, I'm sure it was Hornady. I started reloading for 44 magnum and the 308 Win. and my Remington 788 in 308 loved the 165 grain Hornady BTSP. I remember buying 20 boxes of them at a gunshow in Charleston SC in 1981. I still have one full box left along with my left-handed 788.

I'm so old that I have an unopened steel bottle of Win 296 that I bought.

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I'm so old that I have an unopened steel bottle of Win 296 that I bought.

Got you beat I have a bunch of them.

Don't think they are not that old.

Powder containers from the 50's are old to me.

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Originally posted by Fjold:

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:

quote:

Originally posted by Fjold:
I remember when Hornady used to put 101 bullets in their 100 pack boxes. It used to drive me crazy having one bullet left over when I loaded them.

I'm pretty sure your recollection is of Sierra Bullets.....as I still have more than a few boxes of them.

(edit:Sierra actually advertised the 101 count per box.)

Yes.......I am THAT old....

Kevin

No, I'm sure it was Hornady. I started reloading for 44 magnum and the 308 Win. and my Remington 788 in 308 loved the 165 grain Hornady BTSP. I remember buying 20 boxes of them at a gunshow in Charleston SC in 1981. I still have one full box left along with my left-handed 788.

I'm so old that I have an unopened steel bottle of Win 296 that I bought.

Frank......

After having no luck with a quick interweb search......I called one of the techs at Sierra.
Well....he said the 101 count boxes did exist through about the 1970's and the end of the green/black cardboard boxes. He did add that Sierra does include one extra bullet per hundred, in bulk packs of 500 or 1000.

Sometime.....I'll try to dig out some of my old sealed Sierra 53HPFB&52HPBT boxes....and old Sierra manuals.

As for Hornady....in the old red/white cardboard box....I've never found an extra bullet in a 100 count box. And......I've moly-plated a bunch of them.

Even so......I'll still try to find some written info.

Kevin

I'm this old:

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Originally posted by Fjold:
I'm this old:

We must be close Frank.....

I also have all three.......plus a short square factory can of H110 and H414

Kevin

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:

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Originally posted by Fjold:
I'm this old:

We must be close Frank.....

I also have all three.......plus a short square factory can of H110 and H414

Kevin

A lot of them went into the trash over the years.