fiocchi ammo brass

[Monkeymaster]

Hello,
I have some Fioochi 223 in 40 grn v max varmit ammo comming soon.
Anyone have any good or bad reports on the brass ?
I was planning on shooting then reloading the brass.
Thanks

[pa hog]

I used some in .243 and had good luck with it. It was consistent and actually shot good groups. I don't recall any negatives with it.

[Luckus]

Not exactly the same thing, but I have shot some of their 22lr match ammo and it was excellent. Maybe their brass is worth a try. Let us kbow how it works out. Luckus

[mattm0812]

I know their brass is nice.

Can't remember the last time I bought factory ammo.

[Blitzfike]

I like Fiocchi brass of any kind when I find it. I have reloaded some of the 223 6 times so far with just annealing and trimming like I do after the third firing of any of it.

[stangfish]

I loaded some 308 kind of warm. Primer pockets stretched first time out.

[lago]

I hope you have better luck with reloading the Fiocchi brass than my brother and I had. His SIL shot the factory 40gn V-Max in a Remington 700 w/26” barrel and was getting 3700+fps and almost a 1” group at 200 yards. We didn’t get the same results in our Savage Varmint rifles. He didn’t reload so he gave the brass to my brother and me.

We could not find a load that would compare to what we were getting with Rem Nickel, Winchester, Lake City, and Federal. I gave up on it real quick but my brother kept on with it. He noticed that the brass usually 5 grains heavier than the other brass. We also noticed that the primer flash holes were off-center and had a jagged shape. It also took less powder to reach peak pressures, probably due to thickness/weight of the brass or at least this was his opinion. He could get 2-3 rounds in less than ½” @ 200yards but then have random flyers, opening up the group size to 2-3”. This was with Rem 7 ½ and Federal 205 primers. Powders were W748, RL-10, Alliant Varmint, and X-Terminator with 40gn and 55gn V-Max.

BTW, our game is prairie dogs and Fiocchi brass did not give us prairie dog MOA. I did a first-time test on H-335 w/55gn Z-max in my new Savage FVSS and shot a 5-shot group @200 yards and had 7/8” group. Hope I can repeat it.
Lago