black hills brass

[flitz]

my 223 should be here tomorrow.was thinking of buying some black hills ammo because
of the good results and i will be using a lee collet die. how good is black hills brass?
what are you223 guys using for brass? one more question when you refer to
winchester white box is that the super x

flitz

[quickdtoo]

I can tell ya a couple things about BH brass, one is that at least 2 members here have had case separations shooting it in their Handis cuz BH uses once fired brass from military weapons, at least that's what they were told by BH when they asked about it.

I don't know this for sure, but it has been stated on other forums that they use Lake City brass for some of their ammo, dunno which or if it's true.

FWIW, the 52gr match ammo shoots pretty good from reports here.

The WWB is the USA value packs, comes in 40 or 50 round boxes.

http://www.winchester.com/products/catalog/cfrdetail.aspx?symbol=USA2232F&bn=4&type=7

WWB 45gr JHP

Tim

[mookster79]

This is becoming a very common subject for me in the past couple of days, and mainly because of my new handi .223.   I will say this about blackhills brass.  The red box new match ammo has just given me awesome results as of today.  I have never used the remanufactured black hills in my handi, but have run a whole bunch of the fmj reman through my AR.  I have never had a problem with that or ultramax reman in that rifle, and it is a preban colt AR15 A2 which is still all original parts.  I have heard of a few instances of what quick is saying, and when it comes to handis he is way more of an authority to me.

I just ordered a good amount of the ultramax 50 gr. nosler bt rounds because of the results the 55 gr. fmj rounds gave me. They were just as accurate as the black hills in my gun.  It is possibel that both company's could have lake city cases in there reman. ammo.  But like quick said, I don't know how true any reports of bad casings and malfunctions are.  I know with my experience and for the cost I have had the same results with the remanufactured ammo as the new stuff.  The day something goes wrong is the day I quit using it.  Hope this helps a little, Good luck.

Oh yeah, I love my new handi.  Just have fun with it.

[Norseman112]

I have some black hills brass I reloaded for my .223 ultra. It works ok just do a good job on inspecting your brass.  When I buy brass its always winchester. I have always had good luck with it. I also use the Lee Collet  for my ultra and it works good.

John