6.5 CREEDMOOR SMALL PRIMER POCKET BRASS Reviews & Ratings

Starline brass is the best. I only shoot Starline 6.5 CM small primer pockets in my three 6.5 CM rifles.

just what I needed small primer 6.5 brass. Looks great I received the product in 2 days, can't beat that!

great cases, working up first loads now. seeing how they last will be the tell.

This brass does run slightly heavier and less weight consistent compared to Sig, Lapua, and Hornady, and they warn that max charges are usually 1.5gr less for 6.5 CM. Not by a ton though and Im still getting ~10 SD over a 20 round string, never sorting brass. Its very possible that this brass will go its whole life without stretching to the 1.92 max length. They all start around 1.89. The necks are a little rough to start and I do the inside/outside chamfer every loading. I bought the 6 creed Starline small primer as soon as they started making it. Just bought the 500 pack of the 6.5 Creedmoor small primer, since Im on my 8th firing with that original lot (converted to 6.5) and the primer pocket seems just as fresh, and this is while full length sizing for an AR10! Large primer pockets wore out way quicker with hot experimentation. The only cases Ive tossed have been pinhole neck ruptures due to the sharp star chamber edges gouging the brass as it extracts and flings against them.... definitely take the edge off if youre an AR10 guy.

Very pleased with this brass.

Purchased 200 pieces against the will of my shooting mates. loaded all 200 with modest loads, fire formed and then went to work. The first thing that stood out was weight differential - these casings were all within one grain from highest to lowest. My last lot of Lapua wasn't even that tight. Im not a scrooge, but i load for a gas gun, so I take every stitch of advantage I can create in my process (because in need it) which includes: De-prime, clean, anneal (every time), FL size (every time) and bump shoulder 2/1000th's, Neck size (.288 bushing in my case), wire clean primer pocket bottom, deburr and chamfer mouth, hand prime and hand weigh/verify (two scale) every charge. I tell you all of that to help explain that this brass when annealed every time and FL sized every time has given unbelievable consistency from loading to loading out to 5 loadings so far. load #1 was of course just to fire form, but since that first fire forming, these casings render the EXACT same result on the chronograph and target every time for the 4 firings since. Half the cost of the big name stuff and i'm suffering absolutely no loss of performance (and I dont need a tiny decapping pin for the other brand anymore). My pet load for AR10 rifle with 24" Bbl: Starline SRP annealed, fl sized & shoulder bumped 2/1000th's , neck .288, CCI 450 primer, 44.5gr RL16, Berger Classic hunter 135gr, CBTO 2.180, COAL 2.800. This load gets me 2935 with a typical ES of 18 or less and a typical group of .43 to .58 MOA. I have shot better groups with my old Lapua brass, but those loads were much slower and less capable for my hunting desires. Nice job Starline, this one is a winner.

This brass is very good, strong, consistent weight, and volume. Primer pockets stay tight after 8 reloads (most I've done thus far). My only complaint is that they tend to run a little short, 1.905 +- .002. (brass from each individual lot varied less than +- 0.001). Lot to lot variation was a little higher. This doesn't seem to affect accuracy in any way. I only neck size my brass and thus far have not had to re-trim after trimming once when they were new to get a uniform length for the entire batch.

Initially I had improved the 6.5mm Creedmoor reamer for accuracy. After testing several different brands of brass the 6.5mm Creedmoor using the 107 or 142 grain SMK elevations were from 2 inches to 3 inches in elevation at 1,000 yards on the F-class target. This is using a Krieger #14 8 twist barrel, 6.5mm DARN Creedmoor reamer (JGS) and the Redding precision dies. No attempt was done to read the wind as I cannot do this with success. Norm

I'm ordering more! Like the small primers with American-sized flash holes, which didn't really need deburring. Weight range 161.9Av/159.3Lo/164.7Hi/1.3SD. I sorted into two bins with 1.5 gr spread, with 7 culls in the hi/lo tails. At this price, I could do that! Necks are very uniform. Measured every 90 deg around mid neck; only a couple cases had more than .0005 high-to-low; for 25 cases (100 readings), 2 readings each at .0125 & .0140; the vast majority were .0130 or .0135. Load: CCI 400 / 140 gr Nosler RDF / 42.0 gr H4350 / 2.810 COAL Rig: Ruger Precision Gen 2 / Harris BR-M / rear bag / Zeiss Conquest HD 5-25X x 55) Performance: 2740 FPS 7.3 SD, 1/2-2/3 MOA @300 yd (and my lack of skill contributes most of that). If you're like me and lack the skill for 1/4 MOA shooting, the Starline/NRDF combo is a VERY affordable alternative to Berger/Lapua, and pairs extremely well with the RPR for budget-conscious long-range shooting

After reloading and shooting this brass I have no reason to buy Lapua. Big statement I know, but I stand by it.