Say hello to the .500 Nitro Express in Today’s Photo. Some people like hard-kicking calibers. I am not one of them, and I notice that my friends’ firearms in these calibers stay home most of the time. Having said that, there are times where a large caliber [Read More…]
Norma introduced their award-winning NRA Golden Bullseye Monolithic Hollow Point (MHP) line in the United States with a 9x19mm (108-grain) and a .380 Auto entry (85-grain bullet). Key points on the MHP is that it is monolithic as opposed to blended materials as can be found with other hollow points [Read More…]
Norma has introduced an entirely new line of ammunition that is perfect for an assortment of cartridges in close-up training drills. They debuted their Range & Training Frangibles at SHOT Show this year during the “Industry Day at the Range” so as many [Read More…]
Norma has started off the year with a BANG! with their Norma MHP (Monolithic Hollow Point) by garnering adulation and strong attention from the shooting industry as a result of their all-copper construction projectile. The National Rifle Association (NRA) has awarded [Read More…]
Welcome back to The Rimfire Report where we discuss the various guns, ammunition, and sports surrounding rimfire firearms. I recently came across a post on Reddit by user Bovaloe. In the post, he decided he was going to take 12 different types of rimfire ammo to see if [Read More…]
Norma is known to the world over for their high-quality, factory-loaded ammunition as well as their components they have offered to the public, such as their rifle powders, so people could attempt to replicate that same quality with their own handloads. Now Norma is [Read More…]
Background: Our regular readers may remember this article back in May of 2018 about PRIME Ammo’s new 6mm Creedmoor offering. Cool, but not huge news. The bigger news is why the new cartridge never made it to market. A lot of us would have just written it off as [Read More…]
Norma Ammunition has come out with two new lines of ammunition this year for SHOT 2019. A hunting load that uses a match grade boattail round with a polymer bonded tip. This is designed for long range hunting applications where accuracy is necessary to hit animals out to 800 meters, but the terminal [Read More…]
I don’t like to be the bearer of bad news, especially as the doors to SHOT Show are about to open and a new year has just started. However, the Swedish Ammunition manufacturer Norma Precision AB in Åmotfors have just given 29 of their employees a four [Read More…]
Lapua from Finland begin the year with expanding their range of quality brass for hunters and long range competition shooters. If you’re shooting the .300 Norma Mag. or the .338 Norma Mag. in any of your rifles you now have another case and brand to chose from. [Read More…]
Western Powders is preparing to publish their very first, full-fledged reloading book. For those who are unaware, Western Powders owns multiple, reputable companies within the reloading industry that you probably are already using. Ramshot Reloading Powders Accurate [Read More…]
TFB’s Pete asked before if we can shoot MOA all day long? That’s over a year ago and I’m sorry I haven’t replied earlier but “I was busy“. However that doesn’t mean I can’t, and this time I brought back some proof to [Read More…]
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GDOTS) brought their .338 Norma Magnum caliber Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG) to the 2017 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting, giving TFB the chance at a closer look at this [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is Short Action Precision’s Two Round Holders. I waited a long time to get these. A friend bought them for me, forgot them, forgot them again and time went past. To be honest I probably don’t need them. But I buy a lot [Read More…]
Oh yes, it’s that time. The 10mm Automatic, what hasn’t been said about it? Well, a decently sourced article about its history*, maybe, but that’s for another time. Right now, we’re considering the 10mm Auto (or 10mm Norma as it’s more prim [Read More…]
According to the Polish Ministry of Defense they are to purchase 150 sniper rifles. The sniper rifle of choice is the Sako TRG M10 in .338 Lapua Magnum. Competition came from the national ZM Tarnów company. It is not known which rifle they chose to compete with, but [Read More…]
The Sig Sauer STRs and SSG 3000s may not be the coolest looking rifle on the Planet, but they shoot rather accurately to say the least. By the looks of the design and functions, here’s an invention from LRD in Sweden to take the rifle long into the [Read More…]
According to Long Range Shooting Handbook, SOCOM has officially chosen the .300 Norma Mag for their Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) Cartridge. Here is photo comparing other popular cartridges to the .300 Norma Mag. Here is what Long Range Hand Book had to say on the [Read More…]
Norma USA has announced two new lines of hunting ammunition: Norma African PH and Norma American PH. The American line includes just about every popular hunting round, and some not so popular rounds from .243 Win. to .338 Lapua Mag. The African line includes all the [Read More…]
Blaser, in partner ship with Norma, will be introducing a new line of magnum cartridges later this year. They are not giving out any detailed information until May, but they have said these are completely new cartridges, not based on any previous designs. 7mm Blaser [Read More…]