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    Posted: December 09 2023 at 7:51pm
The only brass offering I have seen or used for quite some time is PPU. Are there any other companies manufacturing 303 British brass currently? 
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I bought some R-P about a year ago.  But, PPU is the best brass currently made. Grafs and Sons has it now. 
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Agree. PPU is excellent brass.
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I can't believe Starline does not make 303 Brit.
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[QUOTE=HammerDown]I can't believe Starline does not make 303 Brit.[/QUOTE

Starline has apparently had production issues since covid. So many things have been on seemingly permanent "temporary backorder" for years now. One thing that I did over the last two years was essentially advertise at the local gun shows. I had a friend that always did the local gun shows help me out. He let me put a 5"x8" card on his table letting others know I was interested in .303 brass, bullets and ammo. I received so many inquiries from people that had sold their Enfields or got out of reloading. Ultimately ended up with three .50cal ammo cans of items including extra die sets. Much of the factory ammo was purchased for less than $20/box. It pays to get the word out.
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Originally posted by HammerDown HammerDown wrote:

I can't believe Starline does not make 303 Brit.
With today's market of shooters who shoot the "flavor of the month", the .303 British cartridge is non-existent.  Starline makes their money selling .308W,  6.5 Creedmoor, 223, 6mmBR and the like. PPU cases will last you years if reloaded correctly...
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Hmmm... Maybe I'm paranoid, but when a company still blames covid for deficiencies, I've found it can just be an excuse they use to keep their inventories (costs) down on stuff that isn't their bread and butter. I'm ok with that. Free market and all. It's their business. I can usually find what I'm looking for elsewhere. 
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Get the PPU its the bees knees. filing that if you can find any the HXP
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Great idea!
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Sellier and Bellot is doing me well here as is the few hundred HXP I have.
Others available in England are RG and of course PPU.
I will admit I nurse my brass, if not originally fired in my rifle I anneal then full length size and trim the length after tumbling.After this its just neck sizing for 5 refills then trim again, annealing after 3 firings.
I have very few problems with split cases and only used my broken case extractor once and that was someone elses gun and ammo.
I was extremely lucky to get 6 bandoliers of HXP loaded in chargers.
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Incredible amounts of ammo is being sent to Ukraine, US military stockpiles have been dwindling, so much of the US capability is going to military contracts. 
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Originally posted by britrifles britrifles wrote:

Incredible amounts of ammo is being sent to Ukraine, US military stockpiles have been dwindling, so much of the US capability is going to military contracts. 

I am hearing and reading the same thing. Yet yesterday I wandered down to a 275 table gun show in Vero Beach and saw a vendor with a pallet of 5.56 green tips for $10/bx and 9mm for $12/box. Both no limit. So I don't know what to make of it. All of the .303 was up there in price. Was $35 for old stock S&B to $43 for Hornady. Did buy a box of Fiocchi .455 for $45.
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Think I read something north of 300 million rounds of small arms ammo has been sent to Ukraine from the US since Russia invaded. 
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I would have got the 455 for that price.

The 223 and 9 are a great price as well.

stack it deep as there is a long road ahead.
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Originally posted by paddyofurniture paddyofurniture wrote:

I would have got the 455 for that price.

The 223 and 9 are a great price as well.

stack it deep as there is a long road ahead.

Agree....can't believe it hasn't happened by now. But soon enough will start enough. The Soros crowd thrive on creating chaos.
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i have stacked deep , was reminded how deep when i had to move four 50cal cans this morning ......my back is sore - trying t keep it in place for all the holiday preping we are doing and it came close today 
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