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Lapua finally trying to fix the dented neck problem
- Thread starter Dogtown
- Start date
Pros: No more dented necks.
Cons: No more “free” 50-rd ammo box.
I think I liked it the old way better. I’ll take the ammo box, because my OCD won’t let me NOT mandrel those necks even with the new packaging.
Cons: No more “free” 50-rd ammo box.
I think I liked it the old way better. I’ll take the ammo box, because my OCD won’t let me NOT mandrel those necks even with the new packaging.
Lapua offers SRP or LRP for the 308 brass.I go to load these and…it turns out these are SR primer .308WIN
No personal experience, but I was told (by Berger tech) they are designed for the Palma folks. Potentially better ES/SD as long as you aren’t shooting in cold weather - then you might experience hang fires.
I prefer the SRP for 243 Ackley.I go to load these and…it turns out these are SR primer .308WIN
That 50 round ammo box ia a PITA. It is much larger than it needs to be. And what must I do with the other 50 cases?
Agreed but I also don't care about dinged necks. It happens. Run an expander through them. I will be doing it still anyway.
Not necessarily for lower SD's, but since we push those 155's pretty hard to stay supersonic at 1K, the LR pockets get loose quicker than the SR brass.
Berger Man may have been full of it, but he said the theory was that the smaller diameter flash hole of SRP brass vs LRP brass created more of a jet effect and deeper penetration of the flash into the powder column to ignite it more consistently front-and-back. That raised more questions than it answered for me, but I was like, "Okaaay..."Not necessarily for lower SD's, but since we push those 155's pretty hard to stay supersonic at 1K, the LR pockets get loose quicker than the SR brass.
Our discussion was really about their 6.5CM brass (Lapua), which started out as SRP, but then switched without warning to LRP. I called to ask why, and more importantly, if this was going to be a permanent change across-the-board (and it was). The Palma brass theory (above) was mentioned as the reason why they started with SRP, and the cold weather ignition problem was stated as the reason for the change to LRP (i.e. hunters). All I really needed to know was whether to expect they would all be LRP from then on, he said they would be, and I let the rest slide, as it really wasn't anything that I needed to know for my application.
That's true, and as a result I don't really use them to transport loaded ammo to the range. I use MTMs for that. But they can be useful for sorting/storing cases as they go through the different case prep operations. I use a mix of MTMs and the "free" Lapua boxes for that, and throw a small card in each box that says where they are in the process. The loaded rounds all end up in MTMs, though.
The bigger disappointment for me is that the new boxes contain exactly 100 pieces of brass while the plastic boxes contained 101 pieces every single time.
That additional piece was great if you need a sacrificial piece for annealer setup or if you have a brain fart and destroy a case somehow.
As for 6.5 Creedmoor brass they sell both SRP and LRP versions to this day.
That additional piece was great if you need a sacrificial piece for annealer setup or if you have a brain fart and destroy a case somehow.
As for 6.5 Creedmoor brass they sell both SRP and LRP versions to this day.
I was speaking specifically about the version Berger uses in their factory ammo. It was SRP, now LRP. I want to say that when Berger first started producing 6.5CM, the only version Lapua made at that time was SRP, but I'm not sure.
