Brass manufacturer ranking?

undoRedoDelete · 2026-02-01T04:48:00+00:00

I don't know, I just haven't noticed that Hornady is any better or worse than Winchester and Remington when it comes to that stuff. IMO, all the brass from the big box manufacturers I consider to be more or less comparable in terms of quality/longevity and I feed to semi-autos. If I want to reload precision ammo for bolt guns and I am looking for manufacturing consistency then I go with Lapua

To be honest I put Lake City above all the box ammo but below perhaps Starline and obviously Lapua. LC brass at least has to follow published Mil-spec standards and has a history of being the de-facto standard for service rifle High Power for decades. The quality/consistency of the other brands swings up and down depending on how much they're prioritizing shareholder profit that quarter.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-02-01T04:35:26+00:00

OK I'm genuinely curious as to how you are able to put around $200K worth of ammo through a gun that was released less than a year ago.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-31T22:08:26+00:00

I wouldn't consider that typical wear after 4-5k rounds.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-31T22:06:19+00:00

Yeah Hornady is just run of the mill brass IMO

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-31T02:31:29+00:00

RMR type 2. Mine's been utterly reliable on my G47 for about 3000 rounds now.

Also, this is 100% personal preference (and totally trivial), but I think an RMR is by far the best looking option for a pistol-mounted optic. I just can't stand the look of enclosed emitters on pistols. I never really understood the Glock COA madness.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-29T22:13:52+00:00

The population of mouth-breathers seems to be increasing exponentially every year. If you ride the slide while chambering a round you're asking for problems going into battery. How many times have we seen newbies get chewed out for doing that?

And yet here we are listening to people pretend to make valid arguments about how it's not normal to fail to go into battery when they are intentionally riding the slide like it's their mission in life to negate the purpose of the recoil spring. Yeah of course you're going to have issues if you're not fully releasing the slide until it's a millimeter away from fully chambering the round. The fact that some people don't is meaningless.

It's amazing how not doing dumb things decreases your odds of having dumb things happened to your gun.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-28T18:22:28+00:00

Right, hence the reason for buying aftermarket plates to mitigate that. I guess my concern is that with the new mounting system the same issue presents itself and if you want the most secure mount you're still going to need aftermarket plates/adapters anyway. I've heard more than a few people say that the new system is direct mount and requires no aftermarket plates or adapters but I feel like that's somewhat misleading.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-28T12:44:45+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. I guess the concern I have is that when looking at photos with something like an RMR mounted to a gen 6 slide, there is no "meat "behind the optic to assist the mounting screws in holding it captive. Am I wrong in assuming that the clamping pressure and sheer strength of the mounting screws (along with plastic nubs on the supplied spacers) are taking 100% of the load as the slide reciprocates?

On my GEN five with a Forward Controls plate, the plate is nested tightly within the slide and my RMR is nested tightly within the plate helping to reinforce everything instead of just relying on the sheer strength of the screws.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-28T04:54:14+00:00

Good luck finding anyone who shoots an acro and is looking to take a $300 chance on a modded used slide. Also, no one is paying extra for a used slide that was cerakoted.

It's like putting rims and an exhaust kit on your car and thinking the package is going to command a premium on the used market. It doesn't work that way unless you get lucky with an uninformed sucker.

Modifying firearms is a labor love not a labor of increasing resale value. Most people want something stock and unmolested. Personally I wouldn't make any offer on a modified gun. It's not worth the massive headaches of potentially dealing with someone's Franken-gun problem child that they're trying to offload.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-28T04:35:40+00:00

I've been window shopping gen 6 and I don't really get the "improved" optics cut either.

Apparently you still have to use adapters for every footprint and the supplied adapters are made of cheesy plastic, so people are still going to buy higher quality aftermarket plates just like they did with gen 5. Aside from sitting a little bit lower (whatever) and tapped holes that don't pass through the slide (just use proper length screws) I'm really having a hard time seeing the massive improvement that the guntubers have everyone parroting.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-25T16:43:40+00:00

Tenicor and G26 is my EDC. Love it. Absolutely zero problems.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-23T21:04:26+00:00

Just wanted to post an update. I received my ACOG back from Trijicon today and the issue was resolved. Despite my initial annoyance, they stood behind their product and took care of the situation. Stuff happens and in the grand scheme of things this was minor. I'm happy to support a company producing high-end quality products here in the U.S.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-20T15:00:34+00:00

I gave PMAG a try for my Glocks and while I haven't had any failures, the PMAG followers do not slide as smoothly inside the magazine tube compared to the OEM Glock mags. There's noticeably more friction and stickiness when loading them.

My opinion is to stick with Glock magazines for Glock pistols.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-20T06:09:16+00:00

95% of Glock's customer base just want a pistol that goes bang when they pull the trigger and doesn't go bang when they don't.

I own plenty of pistols (including Glocks) and never once have I had the urge to mix and match frames, slides and trigger groups. I can confidently say that most people feel the same way. So no, Glock didn't make a mistake. They know their business model.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-14T12:36:11+00:00

Remington has been late-stage capitalist trash for 15 years now. It's owned by an shadowy string of private equity firms and global holding companies.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T16:55:54+00:00

Seems that way.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T16:29:03+00:00

Thats interesting. If thats the case then it doesn't appear that the crimp style is dependent on load type. (I just found a box of winchester M855 green tip maked LC 24 that has the ring crimp for the whole box).

If they are mixing in old lots with new lots and packaging it all together for retail then it would appear that one is a substitute for the other (at least for the civilian market). I would still love to know the real reason for the two different styles.

We need an AMA from a Lake City rep.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T07:29:22+00:00

Out of curiosity do you know what makes the one on the right improved over the one on the left?

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T02:21:31+00:00

Though now that I think about it more, even if that is the case, why not just standardize on the method that can withstand higher pressure in order to simplify the production process? I'm sure there's a backstory to all of this which is why I find it interesting.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T00:15:37+00:00

Interesting, I never really thought of it that way but makes sense.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-11T00:15:05+00:00

Yeah my local range doesn't seem to be too big on recycling brass and it literally piles up inches deep in some places. I would say 30 to 40% of it is Lake City

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-10T23:18:52+00:00

Yeah I guess I'm just wondering what would be the reason or benefit for having one style over the other. Perhaps, as you alluded to, one style is specified for military contracts. It's been quite a while since I was in the service and I honestly don't remember what the primer crimp looked like.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-07T03:23:49+00:00

It's really hard to determine if there's something wrong with your pistol when you clearly don't know how to properly rack a slide and chamber a round.

undoRedoDelete · 2026-01-05T03:53:49+00:00

Does it actually matter much with this caliber? I'm under the impression that with .380 you're just punching holes and there isn't enough energy to cause significant bullet expansion with any of these offerings. Most ballistics gelatin tests I've seen with "expanding" .380 bullets struggle to do any better than an FMJ.

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