"Match" brass

[rubbman]

As I was sorting a bunch of .308 brass, I came across a bit of "Match" head stamps. Is there advantage to this brass over regular head stamps?

[highpower790]

For military match brass,the biggest advantage is no primer crimp.

[J-cat]

Hornady Match 308 brass from their TAP line is crimped.

[sargenv]

It used to be that "Match" brass was supposed to be more consistent than the run of the mill every day regular hunting/plinking ammo brass. These days it could be.. or it could just be some marketer putting "Match" on it to sell to the masses.. Sort of like "Magnum" shotshells.. sure they have a large payload of shot.. but in most cases more shot means less velocity. Good pattern density but no power to make the longer shots effective since pellets run out of energy faster.

Even serious people will take a large lot of "Match" brass and weigh them to get all of the brass the most consistent.. at least that's how I'd do it if I were looking for the most consistency.. These days though, I'm more interested in minute of 8" plate at 200 yards than I am at sub-MOA groups at longer ranges so even I might be wrong. I think anyone serious about groups tend to go for specific brands of brass (think Lapua) than something labelled "Match".

Things like Lake City "Match" brass was uncrimped since it was thought that it would be reloaded and used only in specific firearms (M1A, M1 Garand, 03A3, or other accurized competition firearms) as opposed through machine guns and other platforms that needed reliability more than accuracy.