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The .308 Norma Magnum (7.62×65mmBR) cartridge was created by Nils Kvale at Norma, Sweden. Like the larger .358 Norma Magnum it is based on a shortened 300 H&H magnum. [1] [2] It very closely resembled the wildcat .30-338 Magnum cartridge. [3] [2] Kvale designed a wildcat cartridge, the 8mm Kvale, in 1949. This gave a magnum power cartridge by ...
Nils Kvale and Roy Weatherby were invaluable for Norma's success in the latter half of the 20th century. Kvale was a product developer for the company in the 1960s and introduced a number of new calibers such as the .308 Norma Magnum and .358 Norma Magnum to the market. Today, Norma has a yearly production of 100 million rounds in 110 calibers.
The 6mm Norma BR cartridge was introduced by Norma in 1996. It is based on the 6mm BR Remington cartridge, although where Remington's cartridge was intended for bullets of about 70 grains (4.5 g), Norma standardized their set of chambering specifications for a very low drag (VLD) bullet of over 100 grains (6.5 g), thus realizing the long-range ...
The .358 Norma is what is known as a "short magnum," designed to work in long rifle actions; many .30-06 rifles such as the 1903 Springfield rifle have been rebarreled to the much-more powerful .358 Norma.[5] Norma's factory ammunition for the .358 Norma drives a 250-grain bullet at 2880 fps and produces more than 4,600 ft-lbs (foot-pounds) of ...
.300 Norma Magnum.300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum.300 Remington Ultra Magnum.300 Rook.300 Ruger Compact Magnum.300 Savage.300 Sherwood.300 Weatherby Magnum.300 Whisper.300 Winchester Magnum.300 Winchester Short Magnum.303 British.303 Magnum.303 Savage.375/303 Westley Richards Accelerated Express.307 Winchester.308 Marlin Express
2,510 ft/s (770 m/s) 2,588 ft⋅lbf (3,509 J) Test barrel length: 24 in (26 in for Lapua) [ 1] The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar, but not identical, to the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.
The .300 H&H is a fine African plains game cartridge, and suitable for all but the most dangerous big game and pachyderms . As it was common for rimless hunting cartridges, a rimmed (beltless) variant, at the time called just "Holland's Super .30" [6] and now sometimes named .30 Super Flanged H&H, was developed simultaneously for break-barrel ...
The team was overjoyed by how well the ship fared when it finally took to the sea on March 2, said Robert B. Jackson, photographer and health and safety officer. “For the first time in 4,000 ...