remington brass

[markp]

  Thinking of ordering some once fired 38 special brass.  Choices are remington or federal. I presume either would
  be fine.  I presume the differance between the two would be negligible.  Any thought on this ?

[tacklebury]

Reloading once shot Remington and federal in .38 no issues.  I have had issues with Remington brass on a few occasions in .45-70, .45 colt and a couple others.  In .38 however none as of yet. 

[Old Fart]

I don't recall having any issues with any of the 38spl brass out there.
But for the most part I don't load them up to fast anyway.

[anachronism]

I segregate Remington handgun brass from all others and use it for cast bullet loads with oversized bullets. I've found Remington brass to be a bit thinner in the case mouth area, which I feel is a benefit with cast loads. If you only shoot jacketed bullets, or lead bullets of nominal size, I'd suggest the Federal. Likewise, my experience has been that I get more loadings from Federal brass. I really like Federals handgun brass, just not their rifle brass.

[cybin]

I like remington brass in .38 --Federal is good brass,but i have issues with the primer pockets. seems like the federal primer pockets runs a bit smaller than remington or winchester. Federal brass works well if you use federal primers though--cci can be a real bear to seat in all federal primer pockets.
 
I have run into this in federal .38 special,.357, 9mm, and .380 brass.  Anyone else run into this besides me?
 
cybin

[markp]

  I ordered 500 federal once fired.  Last night I put primors in about 100 mixed brass 38 casings.
  I looked tonight to find  30 were in fact federals. I had no problems seating cci small pistol  primers with a lee hand primer.

 Thanks

[Dand]

I prefer RP brass for most of my loading but use plenty of Fed in 38/357.  I like to segregate by maker.  In my experience, Win seems thinnest, then Rem and Fed much thicker of all.  When it comes to seating and crimping bullets, the thicker Fed brass usually makes me reset my crimp die.  Otherwise I feel like I might be over crimping the bullets in the thicker cases, or under crimping if I've set the die for the Federal cases.