Privi makes very good brass.
Lost in the woods... Hopefully.
Their brass is ok, their factory loads are very suspect. Coup[le years ago I bought 3 20 round boxes of 300 grain .338 Lapua Privi rounds and immediately had misfires in my Savage 11-111. It was like one ignited and 2 didn't, so being the person I am, I pulled all the bullets and powder and I was utterly amazed. Amazed that one, the seating depth was very inconsistent, two the pills were mixed, that is, the bullets were different in design from one case to another and 3, the charges were very inconsistent in weight (don't have a clue about the propellant kind as it did not look like the H1000 I use.
I tossed the pills in the scrap can, dumped the propellant in the garbage, popped the primers, resized the cases, annealed them and reprimed with Federal Large Rifle Magnum primers, reloaded them with 102 grains of H1000 and set 300 grain Lapua Scenars in the cases.
What was interesting was the difference in bullets, some were flat base some were boat tail and they were of different bullet weights as well.
I had bought them at Cabelas and went round and round with both Cabelas and Privi's North American distributor and they actually (Privi NA) refunded me what I paid for them, even though they did not want them back (I was willing to send them to them. no issue with me).
I've since used the brass and fired it and reloaded it again with no issues. Kind of surprised as to the inconsistency. Glad I pulled them. 338 Factory rounds aren't a cheap date no matter where you get them.
My experience with Privi-Partisan.
Yours may be different. I do know one thing and that is, I'll never buy factory loads from them, but then I always prefer to roll my own anyway. I was in a position where I didn't have the die sets to make my own. I do now.
I read somewhere a while ago that Privi Brass was actually Norma Brass but if that is a fact or not, don't have a clue.
