33 Nosler -- your experience or thoughts.??

Wyit76 said:

You may be right with the 300 PRC, I absolutely can see it coming up short just as the 300 RUM and 30 Nosler did. Where you are wrong will likely be the 6.5 and 7mm PRC. The 6.5 PRC has found a solid niche with the sheep hunters, it is the modern rendition of a 270 with just a better bullet. The 7 PRC will absolutely be the down fall of the 7mm rem mag and this is coming from a die hard rem mag fan. Sure a custom rem mag with custom hand loads can do what a 7 PRC does but with 10 times more cost and effort. I will go so far as to wager that the 7 PRC starts to take a share away from the 300 WM even.

You are correct, these rifles really do not do anything more than their older counterparts. They do the same things but more efficiently. The days of 26" barrels are coming to an end and the older magnums drop performance rapidly when put in suppressor friendly 18-22" barrels. They also are not capable of shooting the longer more modern bullets without significant work.

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Bullthrower338 said:

I have been shooting a 33 Nosler quite a bit lately and it is impressing me even with factory ammo. I lucked into a deal on nosler brass that was placed on a clearance table at around .50 each and I bought all of it. Then the same store had factory Nosler ammo with ABLR and partitions priced at $60/box so I bought all of it as well which if you do proper gun math savings on components - cost of gun, I essentially got the rifle for free!
Have had some good luck with the ELD but am still playing with them.
Much cheaper to feed than my 338 Lapua AI and no fire forming step. I think the round has a lot of potential for hunting, more so than the Lapua in the configurations that I have both in Lapua and ackley versions.
I still have a deep love for the Win Mag and RUM 338’s but there is always room for another 338 at my house.

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Gomer said:

Don’t count out cartridges with a 60+ year head start. Besides, most of the older cartridges that share bore sizes with the PRCs are getting twist updates. Its more cost effective for all chamberings of a particular bore size to share a twist rate. That’s why you can get Sako and Tikka 7mm Rem Mags with 1 in 9.5 twists cheap right now. The new ones at full price have faster twists.

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Wyit76 said:

Definitely not counting them out, like I said I am an avid fan of the 7mm rem mag. I packed one around for ages and shot it enough to toast a barrel. I also chose not to rebarrel it to 7 rem mag and went to the 7 prc for an option than full custom 7 rem mag.

Changing up twist rates will only legitimately help out folks that hand load and even a good majority of them will be hindered by magazine length and neck length on those older cartridges. The magazine length issue is ultimately why I chose to go 7 prc with my old rem mag. You also have to persuade ammunition manufacturer to go outside of Sammi specs for a given cartridge and the vast majority simply won't do that.

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uplander01 said:

Nosler trying to leave their mark on things, like everyone else. Design redundancy, different lipstick on a pig, call it whatever you want. When you can't design anything new in a rifle platform other than "manufacturing techniques, tolerances, and finishes", the next best thing is a caliber there will always be a certain number of people that will find a reason to buy it.

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