Do any of you have opinions on what brand of brass to buy? When i went to a gun shop to buy brass the store owner handed me a bunch of norma brass and almost flipped his lid when i asked if he had anything cheaper. He said it's no good using cheap brass for 300 wby which is what im loading for. It just seems like a waste to me to buy 20 cases for $24 cdn. Are there any advantages that make it worth the money at all?

Shooting benchrest, yeah, get good brass.

Shooting a .300 WBY at moose, bear, deer.... ah, I think that the Remington stuff is going to do just fine :) And you won't feel bad losing cases in the thick stuff, either.

He's either a serious accuracy nut (which is OK), or just wants to sell you what he already has (which is not OK in my book but certainly understandable from a business perspective).

My opinion.

Mike makes the good point. The guys that go to great pains to turn necks and so forth like the norma because it is soft and works better. They anneal the necks a lot too and they think they get best results with the Norma. I sure do love to watch the bench guys drool when they see the groups my old 760 shoots with unpolished RP brass and 165 gr. SPs.

Norma makes great brass- but not cheap brass...
Lapua brass is also outstanding, and not cheap.
The US makers brass is much more reasonably priced. That means either Remington or Winchester in rifle brass, for the most part. I have a strong preference for Winchester- less defects, more consistency. That's been my experience in quite a few different chamberings. None of them was 300 Weatherby, though.

Generally like Norma brass. It does seem to be annealed softer in the neck area than U.S. made cases and is USUALLY long lasting.

Had a .220Swift that was shot with factory Hornady, Reminton, and Norma ammo. Reloads were developed in each case...so they ended up with about the same number of uses when loaded and put into the ammo locker. Gun traded, and a couple of years pass before another .220Swift comes my way.

Digging out the ammo, ALL of the Norma cases had split in storage. This isn't fromwear, it's from storage, and the splits were full neck length. None of the Hornday or Rem. cases had neck split. Same brass age, same reloading histroy, same storage conditions, same powders and bullets and dies used in loading. WHY that lot of Norma cases all split when the "harder" US cases hadn't is up for debate.