Peterson brass is awesome

[Movistar]

I’m not affiliated in any way. But I’m totally impressed. I bought two boxes (100 total) of Peterson small rifle primer 6.5 CM brass. I just wanted to try it out and needed a little bit of brass but wanted to try it before I committed fully. I paid $72.xx shipped from Eurooptic after a coupon I had. I’m not normally a weigh and sort my brass kind of guy. But for kicks I weighed 30 of them. Less than 1 grain spread. 168.8-169.7 and most of them were closer to the 169.1-2 mark. Very consistent. All the mouths were perfect because of the way they package them. Made in the USA too. Love that.

On to the shooting.

16.5 inch Proof Carbon 1-8 twist 6.5CM in my Q Fix rifle.

Load development landed right around 40.8 grains of RL16 with a 147 ELD M and a CCI 400 primer. Speed was right at 2500 FPS or so with an SD of 2.6. I’ve fired this brass 3 times and it’s awesome. Very consistent. Check it out. I feel no need to pay Lapua money.

 

[Twitchy]

I've been impressed with in my 18" 6.5. My numbers arent as impressive, but they were half of what hornady brass was giving me.

Got any pics of your rifle? I'm curious what a 16" Proof looks like.

 

[Movistar]

I've been impressed with in my 18" 6.5. My numbers arent as impressive, but they were half of what hornady brass was giving me.

Got any pics of your rifle? I'm curious what a 16" Proof looks like.

Proof barrels are legit

 

[Milo 2.5]

I bought 400 of the same lot # of 6 creed last summer. I did the weigh test thing right off the bat too, in 10 cases I had a 3gr spread, no reason to go farther.
Being new, I did not do a capacity test. They shot fine though, but I thought extremely soft compared to Lapua brass. I myself would really have to think twice before I tried the brand again.

 

[maverickasu]

ES of 5fps?... doing something right for sure

 

[308Gunner]

I am getting an ES of 3.8 with my 6.5 SLR using 260 SRP

 

[supercorndogs]

3 shot string?

 

[Autofire]

I’m not affiliated in any way. But I’m totally impressed. I bought two boxes (100 total) of Peterson small rifle primer 6.5 CM brass. I just wanted to try it out and needed a little bit of brass but wanted to try it before I committed fully. I paid $72.xx shipped from Eurooptic after a coupon I had. I’m not normally a weigh and sort my brass kind of guy. But for kicks I weighed 30 of them. Less than 1 grain spread. 168.8-169.7 and most of them were closer to the 169.1-2 mark. Very consistent. All the mouths were perfect because of the way they package them. Made in the USA too. Love that.

On to the shooting.

16.5 inch Proof Carbon 1-8 twist 6.5CM in my Q Fix rifle.

Load development landed right around 40.8 grains of RL16 with a 147 ELD M and a CCI 400 primer. Speed was right at 2500 FPS or so with an SD of 2.6. I’ve fired this brass 3 times and it’s awesome. Very consistent. Check it out. I feel no need to pay Lapua money.

I don't get this SD 2.6 when you fired only 3 rounds. What was you SD after 20 rounds?

 

[4darkseid]

I am running their 408 Cheytac brass in my 375 ELR. Its tuff stuff. It starts out with very tight minimum spec or under primer pockets, but they are a normal fit after two firings when they take their set.

 

[Movistar]

I don't get this SD 2.6 when you fired only 3 rounds. What was you SD after 20 rounds?

The load development I’m doing on this new barrel and brass I’ve only been firing 3 to 5 loads at each charge weight. I’ve got more loaded up to test again. But the loads have been consistently single digits. I’m happy with it.

 

[antithesis]

My first order from Peterson was 200, .308 Win SRP, and 300 6.5 CM LRP Fat Neck. I have another 100 of the fat neck, and 500 6.5 LRP standard neck on the way.

The case body has slightly less capacity than Lapua. But just like Lapua, minimal stretch. The primer pockets are a tighter tolerance (width) than Lapua, although they are shallow and need to be uniformed, especially the LRP. I did find the last 1-1.5mm of the neck (case mouth) is thinner than the rest of the neck by 0.001. They are not brittle but still need to be annealed. Considering they are always available, a US product, and significantly less money than the blue box, I plan to keep buying them.

At some point I may buy some of their wildcat tubes and see how well I can form them to 6 Dasher rather than hydroforming Lapua.

 

[308Gunner]

My loads are for 10 shots as I don’t think 3 will give you a valid velocity. I would have run 20 but I had 10 left so that is what I did. This load has been shot to 1345 and tracks right on with my Sig 2400

 

[4darkseid]

Peterson
Kinetic
Alpha

Are the top three fairly new players in brass making.

Are all newcomers to the brass market. They all use the same machinery to produce brass.

The samples of Peterson we have seen are excellent.

The samples of Kinetic are excellent too. They have had their brass tested by a large bullet maker. The cases started to fail in the 30 plus reload range.

Kinetic is local to us. And, i have seen their products for sale locally.