Starline Brass

[HollandNut]

Who has / is using it and yur thoughts on it ??

[james snodgrass]

I've been useing it in 44mag & 357mag for at least 15 yrs and I'm pretty sure the old midway brass was made by starline I've got some of that over 20 yrs old. I'de say its tough to beat it.

[Lloyd Smale]

best handgun brass made.

[standles]

I use it exclusively in my competition guns and if I need to buy for any reason in the others it is always starline.

[Jim]

Same here.

[22cf45]

I've had the same experience, it is fine brass.
Phil

[Tom W.]

When I buy, that's what I get.

For the record, I inherited a bunch of random brass, and one case was headstamped "Midway", so October 12, 2005 I e-mailed them and asked who made it. They said that there was a limited run in the 1980's with the Midway headstamp and it was made by Starline.

[jawjaboy]

best handgun brass made.

No argument on that! Besides that, it sho is puuurdy....shines like new money! :wink:

[HollandNut]

Thanks I figgerd there must be sumpthin' to it's quality ..

[dustinfamily]

I've had great success with it, and if You order from starine.com they flat rate box it to You.(at least they did last year) You might have to buy 500 pcs but You can alway find someone to take some extra off Your hands.
Mark

[HollandNut]

I'd order from them , no doubt , gonna get at least 1000 pieces , so if the 480 ever officially squats , I'll have enuff for a while anyways .. Besides they're cheeper than the distributors are ..

[jtaylor1960]

I have used 45Colt ,45/70 and 38/55 starline and am very happy with it.

[pumpguy]

45-70 and .357 mag is what I have used. Primo stuff!

[Buckshot]

..........I have it in 38S&W, 45ACP, 38-55(2.125"), 40-65, and 45-90. Nice brass. No complaints.

..............Buckshot

[JMax]

I only use their brass for all my match needs. Superb quality lot to lot.

[GSM]

I use their 45 ACP, 38 Spec., and 32 Mag.

Wonderful brass, maybe a little thicker than others, but very good overall.

[Sundogg1911]

If I buy new pistol brass, it is almost always Starline. (Unless I get some outragious deal on something else) I don't know of any better brass out there.
I don't know of anyone that has used Starline brass and not liked it.

[Nardoo]

I use it in my 45/90 and have had no problems. Seems very uniform too.

Nardoo

[13Echo]

I have Starline brass for my 45-90 and 50-70 rifles. It is the most uniform brass I've ever used, but, at least in the large rifle cases, it is very hard and needed to be annealed before I could get decent accuracy with my blackpowder rifles. Still, it is all I use for these rifles and I doubt anyone else makes better brass.

Jerry Liles

[MGySgt]

Much the same finding's for me with Star Line brass.

what I have found and FWIW

2 issues with Star line brass thought.

1. If you worked the load with some other brass (Rem, WW etc) You better rework the load in the Star Line - there is less case capicity. I worked a load for my 45/70 with WW and the Hornady 350FP J-boolit. A friend tried to load the same load in his Star Line brass - it would not fit. He reworked the load and was 5 grains under my load and that is all the powder that would fit!

2. For BP loads (or low presuure with white powder) you have to anneal the brass to get your accuracy - 3 to 4 inch difference between annealed and not annealed groups.

Drew

[iron mule]

i agree with all above // i use thier 44-40// 38-40// 38-55// 35-70// 44 mag //357 mag and never had a problem if you order from them get it lots of 1,000 or more for the best savings//// mule

[Adam10mm]

I use Starline in 357 Magnum, 10mm, 45 Super, 45/70.

[Shiloh]

Have about 450 pieces that I bought on E-bay before it was dis-allowed. :(
.45 Auto Rim. Great Brass !!

Really disappointed with the politically correct, symbolism over substance E-bay
folks :(

Shiloh :castmine:

[Adam10mm]

There's always the forums and Reloadersauction.com.

[spurrit]

Seems to stay shinier than most other brass. Never had a piece fail me, yet.

[Newtire]

About the only brass that holds up for a long time in .32-20 and in .32 magnum, about the only game in town. Couldn't imagine any brass being better.

[Castinoff]

I'm just getting back into reloading & casting after a long dry spell so lotsa things have changed. As a result, I research (mostly here on the net) new products that I may not have heard of or used. Starline was the subject of one of my "researches" and although I've never used it personally, all of the comments about it that I've seen are positive, just like those here.

[mainiac]

Have bought 3 different lots of star-linr .32 mag brass. All 3 lots suffer from body splits. This last lot is better,but still,I loose alot of it to body splits. E-mailed star-line about it awhile ago, and they said maybe i ought to bake it in oven for x-amount of time @ x-amount of degrees. Dont care to do this. It is a anneal problem that should be fixed at the factory,not in the ol ladies oven!

[Newtire]

Have bought 3 different lots of star-linr .32 mag brass. All 3 lots suffer from body splits. This last lot is better,but still,I loose alot of it to body splits. E-mailed star-line about it awhile ago, and they said maybe i ought to bake it in oven for x-amount of time @ x-amount of degrees. Dont care to do this. It is a anneal problem that should be fixed at the factory,not in the ol ladies oven!

Hi maniac,

When did you get your brass? I heard about Federal cases all doing that at first but have been lucky enough not to have experienced that. I would be worried about annealing an entire case too! I have been reloading the same lot over & over.

I have lost a few of the .32-20 cases to case mouth splits but none of the .32 mags. I got did that. I bought 100 about 4 years ago and another 200 2 years ago.

The Winchester & Remington .32-20's will be lucky to see 3 loadings.

[Skrenos]

Have bought 3 different lots of star-linr .32 mag brass. All 3 lots suffer from body splits. This last lot is better,but still,I loose alot of it to body splits. E-mailed star-line about it awhile ago, and they said maybe i ought to bake it in oven for x-amount of time @ x-amount of degrees. Dont care to do this. It is a anneal problem that should be fixed at the factory,not in the ol ladies oven!

Does your gun do this with any other brands of brass?

[mainiac]

I have several lots of federals,and some of them body-split also. But a couple of lots are very nice, multiple high pressure loads with no problems. Ive bought the star-line brass in the last 2-3 years or so. With the .32 mag, if you cant find federal, your stuck with starline it seems,,, Now with .357, its a different story! Exellent brass,with no problems.

[contender85]

I use the Starline brass in 32-20, 357Mag, 44Mag, 45Colt, and 32 H&R Mag.....a friend told the same thing about Federal 32 H&R Mag cases splitting and suggested that I use only Starline for it, unfortunately I haven't shot the 32 enough yet to tell if there's a problem or not.


Mark

[400cor-bon]

Starline is great stuff.
I use 45 ACP. 400 C-B, 357, 32 mag
and I have some OLD 9 mm that has lots of relaods through them
still going strong :drinks:

[bullshot]

Freakshow10mm
Never heard of Reloaders Auction. Thanks for the info. In staying with the thread I also use a fair amount of Starline brass both pistol and rifle with no issues.

[pa_guns]

Hi

Starline is good stuff. I have never seen a problem with it in anything I have used from them.

Bob

[oneokie]

Anyone had any luck in receiving a response from Starline when using the "contact us" link on their web-site?

[400cor-bon]

Have bought 3 different lots of star-linr .32 mag brass. All 3 lots suffer from body splits. This last lot is better,but still,I loose alot of it to body splits. E-mailed star-line about it awhile ago, and they said maybe i ought to bake it in oven for x-amount of time @ x-amount of degrees. Dont care to do this. It is a anneal problem that should be fixed at the factory,not in the ol ladies oven!

this is common in 32 mags. my bro in law has a NEF pistol that does about 1 in 6.
my pistol does it with both federal and starline. might be something with the round and flame cutting
but once the split ones are weeded out, the remaining ones dont seem to split (as often)

[spurrit]

Anyone had any luck in receiving a response from Starline when using the "contact us" link on their web-site?

Nope. Never. They suck at answering the damned phone, too. I wish they had an answering machine, so I could tell them, "I love, use, and recommend your product. I'll start buying it again when you start answering th damn phone or start answering e-mails. This is piss poor service."

[felix]

Yep, honey always works mo'betta' than sour wine (vinegar)! ... felix

[spurrit]

Honey has nothing on a week old road killed squirrel.

[TNsailorman]

I have used .45acp starline and .38 Special starline brass since the company first started making it and have had nothing but excellent results with it. Now I am beginning to venture into the .41 magnum and the .45AR and .357 magnum areas. Does it look like I am changing over? The only real problem is the fact that others are finding out our little secret and now it is not always easy to find Starline.

[Gun-adian]

To date I've used .45/70, .45 Colt and .44 Mag without a problem, all in hot loads. The stuff is awesome.

I've got some .44 Special and .30 Luger inbound now. I tkink I'm safe in assuming the quality will still be top notch.

I'll order some 10mm from them as soon as I can find a 10mm Glock for the right price.

Mike

[spurrit]

Slightly OT, but, since the question has been asked and answered, I was wondering if anyone else has noticed .38 and .357 cases being more prone to splitting than others? It seems that every time I shoot my .357 Blackhawk, I get one or two split cases out of a hundred or two.

[brshooter]

I bought 2000 45-70 cses from them, the quality is much better than the 2,500 Winchester 45-70 cases I bought earlier. Had a serious issue with the depth of the primer pocket in the winchester cases, they were too shallow, bent and distorted cases were real common with the winchesters, some to the point that they could not be saved. All so the case length of the Winchesters were too long and varied, making it difficult to get a uniform crimp. I had to use a primer uniformer and trim all the Winchester cases.
The Starline brass was extremely uniform in length, and were at the trim to length. Primer pockets were well with-in tolerances and of the 2000 cases only two had small dings at the neck.
I use them in a Gatling Gun. And if I have my choice, I will never buy Winchester again, Starline quality is impressive. And the best part, they are $ 100 cheaper per 1000 than the Winchester. Starline sells direct, and the prices are good.

[2400]

Who has / is using it and yur thoughts on it ??

I've used a lot of Starline over the years and it is great brass, I look for it first when it's time to buy new brass.

[Maximilian225]

best handgun brass made.

+1
:Fire:

[JesterGrin_1]

Where is the best place to purchase Starline Brass?

[Scrounger]

Where is the best place to purchase Starline Brass?

From Starline: http://www.starlinebrass.com/

[oneokie]

Grafs, Midway, Buffalo Arms

Bought some 38-55 from Graf's, most of what I received was not at advertised length, they made it good. Refunded my return shipping.

[JesterGrin_1]

Thank You :drinks:

[pa_guns]

Hi

Brass is something that goes on and off sale at a lot of places. I would always check thee sources before I placed an order.

Bob

[lovedogs]

All I've tried Starline in so far is my wife's .45-70 BC. I did that to keep our brass seperate. I was already using Winchester. The Starline is heavier and has less case capacity. It also varies more in weight than the Winchester, probably not enough variation though to be a problem unless you're doing super accuracy testing. So far we haven't been able to see any difference in case life or durability but we are using low loads so it isn't being tested much. I think it's good stuff.

[Chunky Monkey]

I never have but (other than not answering phone or email) I think I will next time I need new brass!:Fire:

[spurrit]

Anyone ever been able to get anyone to answer the phone at starline? I'm about to just give up, tell the KMA, and shop elsewhere.