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Offline kevin.303

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« on: March 30, 2004, 07:31:20 AM »
anyone ever used this this stuff or even heard of it? a company out of quebec, www.districorp.ca has it and i want to get some .303 and 7.62x54. its boxer primed brass and comes in lots of 500 rounds for $281.00 canuck or 11.99 a box. i hadn't heard of it until now and want to get some opinions on quality and performance before i commit myself to an order.
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2004, 12:54:56 PM »
I've shot some of it for 6.5x55 and .30-06.  Good stuff for the price IMHO ($5.95US per box of 20).  It's not the most accurate I've ever tried, but I managed to get 1.5" groups w/ it out of my .30-06 and after some playing with it 2" groups out of my 6.5 Swede.  Plenty good enough for hunting, and they make allmost everything available in a soft-point version (most cheap target ammo is FMJ.  I'd much rather get the soft-points as it leaves them open for hunting ammo in a pinch).  Reloading the brass is a bit of a headache though.  The primer pockets are a bit tight, so I had to open them up a bit before they could be primed.  The flash holes were also a tad on the small side, causing my decapper to push back in the collet to keep from breaking (fail-safe feature of the Lee dies).   After trying it a few times on each one though, they all deprimed.  After the first deprime you could likely fix them with a small drill bit (Dremel?).  At half the price of most other ammo though, it's not bad.