Fireball brass

[Faststeel]

lads

last time to P&D I saw new bags of Rem. 221 Fireball,. could not believe my eyes, expensive, but available.......lol

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by Faststeel

lads

last time to P&D I saw new bags of Rem. 221 Fireball,. could not believe my eyes, expensive, but available.......lol

Do you recall what the price per 100 was by any chance. I am sitting on quite a bit of 221 and 17 FB brass that I have been considering selling down, at least some of it.

[rembo]

I have bought Lapua and Nosler 221 FB lately from Hirsch Precision and Prophet River.

I'd pass on the RP brass

[Big Thumper]

Originally Posted by Dean2

Do you recall what the price per 100 was by any chance. I am sitting on quite a bit of 221 and 17 FB brass that I have been considering selling down, at least some of it.

83.99 at PR
https://store.prophetriver.com/remin...l-100ct-22404/

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by rembo

I have bought Lapua and Nosler 221 FB lately from Hirsch Precision and Prophet River.

I'd pass on the RP brass

I have loaded literally thousands of rounds of 17 and 221 FB in Rem cases. We load large quantities for gopher safaris to Saskatchewan. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Remington brass, my 17 FB will regularly shoot .155 MOA all the way to 300 yards using Remington brass. I have some cases that are on their 11th load, neck sized only, with never having been annealed. It is about 1/3 the price of Norma. If I only needed a hundred cases price difference would be irrelevant but when you are buying 3-5000 at a time it makes a heck of a difference.


P.S. Just saw the 83.99 thanks BigT. That is actually a very good price for 221 brass. It was that much 5 years ago.

[Big Thumper]

Originally Posted by Dean2

P.S. Just saw the 83.99 thanks BigT. That is actually a very good price for 221 brass. It was that much 5 years ago.

looks like they have 17 FB too but a few dollars more

[Faststeel]

Originally Posted by Dean2

Do you recall what the price per 100 was by any chance. I am sitting on quite a bit of 221 and 17 FB brass that I have been considering selling down, at least some of it.

Dean, I think it was $91.00 per 100 pieces. at P&D

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by Faststeel

Dean, I think it was $91.00 per 100 pieces. at P&D

Thanks

[elkhunter11]

Originally Posted by Faststeel

Dean, I think it was $91.00 per 100 pieces. at P&D

At that price, I would rather pay $109 for Lapua.

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by elkhunter11

At that price, I would rather pay $109 for Lapua.

At the Prophet River price of 84 a bag I would go Rem for large volumes, at 91 it is starting to get really tempting to go Lapua if you could get a big enough volume. I still won't pay the near $200 that Norma brass costs. Nosler brass, which is made for them by Norma, is about half the Norma price for some strange reason but I haven't seen it for sale here in Canada.

[Big Thumper]

Originally Posted by Dean2

At the Prophet River price of 84 a bag I would go Rem for large volumes, at 91 it is starting to get really tempting to go Lapua if you could get a big enough volume. I still won't pay the near $200 that Norma brass costs. Nosler brass, which is made for them by Norma, is about half the Norma price for some strange reason but I haven't seen it for sale here in Canada.

https://store.prophetriver.com/nosle...ireball-100ct/

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by Big Thumper

https://store.prophetriver.com/nosle...ireball-100ct/

Yes, I was exaggerating. None the less, In 5000 cases that is a $2500 difference to rem brass. Like I said earlier, if all you need is a couple of hundred brass the price difference is pretty much irrelevant, pick the brass u like best but like I said earlier too, Rem brass shoots about .16 moa so I really don't see how much better more expensive brass could make it. I think in many cases there is a little brass snobbery more than reality at work.

[Bergerboy]

Its not on their site, but I know these guys can get good prices on 221FB brass.

https://www.deadcenterreloading.com/