What cartridge have you thought about the most, but never owned a rifle in it?

The following is straight from Norma about their ammo:


Dear Vince, don’t vary you are right.



In Europe we have similar rules we have the CIP-rules this is very close mostly identical to the SAAMI who you have.

We also produce since decades ago ammunition for the USA market so we must also follow the pressure levels

According to SAAMI-rules.



PS. (We don’t have better stronger rifles as you have in USA it’s same construction equal know how from the engineers).



Bests Åke Nilsson



Med vänlig hälsning/Best regards
Norma Customer Support

Originally Posted by Mike70560

Christian,

Ammo makers worldwide do not adhere to the same specification. In the US SAAMI specs are used. In Europe CIP specs are used. You are correct that Norma does not use SAAMI specifications. They use CIP standards which I believe are tougher. For instance the temperature that Norma tests their rounds is 100 Celcius which 212 F. SAAMI only requires 60 to 80 F.

I have shot and chrono'd Norma ammo in the past. My biggest complaint is the low velocity. I was told this was done to stay within CIP specifications.

Have YOU actually bought, shot and chrono'd 8 by 57 ammo from Norma that was over-pressured?

Very interesting, I didn't know that. Maybe it isn't quite as bad as I painted it out too be, but I still don't want to use it, call me a scaredy cat or whatever.

No, I have never used Norma 8X57 ammo, but I have read bad stuff before on the internet about pressure issues. Then again, those complaints were on the internet, people can say anythuing they want to on the I-net.