I have a friend that is selling of a few firearms that im going to look at and is one is the 308 norma. Just wondering if its worth grabbing. Can factory ammo still be bought i can honestly say i never seen ammo on a shelf.
308 Norma Magnum ammunition can be found if you look hard enough, but it isn't cheap. Be sure not to confuse 308Norma, and 300Norma, they aren't the same.
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I have a friend that is selling of a few firearms that im going to look at and is one is the 308 norma. Just wondering if its worth grabbing. Can factory ammo still be bought i can honestly say i never seen ammo on a shelf.
I dont believe buying it would do you any good. Ammo is wildly expensive. Starts at $130/box of 20
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I had one about 15-20 years ago. With a 26” barrel and full noise handloads I could hardly beat ‘06 velocity across my chrony. A 180 at 2900 was the best I could achieve, 165’s at 3050ish. Both loaded with many different powders and projectiles.
Perhaps my results are in the minority and perhaps that rifle had an oversized chamber but it was a cartridge I couldn’t achieve listed velocity with any load. If I didn’t have a chronograph and trusted the book and felt recoil I would have thought it was a .300 mag of some flavour.
Easy to make ammo..........reload. You can FL resize 7mm Rem mag and ,338 Win mag brass or .300 Win mag and trim. Same as loading any other calibre.With smarter marketing [ammo + guns available at the same time] the copycat .300 win mag wouldn't have existed. Companies steal other's ideas.
I had one about 15-20 years ago. With a 26” barrel and full noise handloads I could hardly beat ‘06 velocity across my chrony. A 180 at 2900 was the best I could achieve, 165’s at 3050ish. Both loaded with many different powders and projectiles.
Perhaps my results are in the minority and perhaps that rifle had an oversized chamber but it was a cartridge I couldn’t achieve listed velocity with any load. If I didn’t have a chronograph and trusted the book and felt recoil I would have thought it was a .300 mag of some flavour.
If you used the same bullet weight you would have seen a difference.
However, as has been not , very similar to 30o mag except fr the difference i the neck.
Velocities are interchangeable with the 300 magnum.
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