Thread: Remington vs Norma brass

Is there that much difference?? I have a load with the Norma stuff but much cheaper to shoot remington for hunting and plinking. I understand load may vary but doubt it will be significant. Regards

The Remington brass in my experience is much heavier and thicker. It is likely that your current Norma loads will have pressure signs in the Remington brass due to the reduced case capacity.

Sweet as. Run a lightish load but will be spicing it up so probably best to stick with what I know. Cheers for the info

I used norma brass in my 303 and when I lost too many and couldn't buy it any more changed to R P rem and it seemed fine. Lasted plenty of reloads and accuracy was pretty good. For an ex target 303 hunting rifle.

I wouldn't recommend running two types of brass specially if you need to use different powder charges. Considering you'll be often having a few rounds left at the end of a batch, changing over resighting and so in it will.likely be cheaper in the long run to just buy more of the expensive brand.

In the past I have found Remington brass to be very trashy - off centre flash holes, primer pockets becoming loose in as few as 3 loads. Norma in my experience has been excellent.

I have used various brands of brass for over 45 years using the same load in each type and had no problems. Some do have less case capacity but if you are using under max loads it shouldn't be an issue. B est thing to do is load up a few at lower levels and work up to your max load.

RP brass is ok once you weight sort it, uniform the primer pockets, debur the flash holes, neck turn for uniform thickness and anneal the necks.

Or you can just get the Norma brass and avoid the hassle.

Yeah sticking with norma