28 Nosler anyone?

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Hi all! Just hear about the 28 Nosler today, promising cartridge for long range shooting... If I've understand correctly, it's a 7mm (.284") commonly available bullets with kinda high speed and flat trajectory...

Wanted to hear about experienced shooters about it. Are the cases are hard to find?

Thanks!
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Been out for awhile I own two right now and have had a few more. Great case, similar ballistics as 7stw but shorter case. Brass is fairly easy to find but now cheap. 25 pieces of nosler brass will run you about $110
 
The 7mm cartridge world is crowded already. 7mm is an excellent caliber which probably has the best reasonable weight ballistic coefficient bullets along with the 6.5 mm. They kind of stack up for case capacity from most to least:

7mm Remington Ultra Magnum
28 Nosler
7mm Remington Magnum
7mm Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum

The commonly available 7mm RM probably has lots of capacity, if not too much. My choice not considering brass availability would be the 7 RSAUM in a long action gun, so you can seat those long bullets out of the case body and out to the lands. I don't brass for the 28 Nosler at Wholesale Sports or Cabelas, but smaller places may have it. I would assume only Nosler brand is available, which I believe is made by Norma, and is very expensive -- about $3 a case. Here is what it looks like, if you have not seen it. It is 0.1" longer than a Rem Mag, so I would worry about the bullets being shoved back in the case in even a long action gun.

28 Nosler SAAMI
 
Evil_Dark said:
Hi all! Just hear about the 28 Nosler today, promising cartridge for long range shooting... If I've understand correctly, it's a 7mm (.284") commonly available bullets with kinda high speed and flat trajectory...

Wanted to hear about experienced shooters about it. Are the cases are hard to find?

Thanks!
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A friend has built a 26 Nosler, his experience is that it's less expensive to purchase factory ammo than to purchase empty cases.

I would expect 28 Nosler to be a similar experience.
 
Chargerguy said:
I was thinking of doing a 7mm STW build but now I'm strongly considering the 28 Nosler. Still not completely decided, but looking to use the 195 grain .284s.
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If you can find ammo or brass go for it otherwise the STW is the way I would go, but then again I am not crazy about propriatary calibers.
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Chargerguy said:
Seems like the nosler brass is the same price for the STW and the 28 Nosler. No cheaper alternatives for the 28 though (that I can find).
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One thing that should not be overlooked is that cases for the STW can be formed from abunch of other calibers like any full length H&H case, that is a big advantage.
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bigbull said:
One thing that should not be overlooked is that cases for the STW can be formed from abunch of other calibers like any full length H&H case, that is a big advantage.
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How the brass reforming works? Is it easy enough to do it myself?

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What about the 7-300win mag run rl33 and its right on the heals of the 28nosler and brass is easy to find and cheap. The Nosler is a great round the price of brass is just very high. It can be formed from 7RUM brass but i dont think your saving much going that route either.
 
The Noslers (all) are representative of excessively diminishing returns. They've all been an answer to a problem no one realized they had.
 
Most of the large cases have been necked to 7mm, I don't see any real advantage to Noslers version. I would put in the wildcat class, it will not be popular, cost is a factor for most shooters. If speed is your thing then the 7 Ultra Mag.
 
7 RUM, 28 Nosler all fine in a single shot, but when mag length is considered there is little advantage...then consider brass quality available
What cannot we accomplished with the 7 Rem Mag with modern powders?
If you want serious capacity the 7/300 Norma is overkill but at least gets it done at a reasonable OAL
otherwise 284 win, 7WSM, 7 Rem mag
 
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I had one made by Legendary arms works, the rifle had issues and was returned to the factory and my money was fully refunded, it wouldn't group inside 6 inches at 100 yards.(not the fault of the cartridge) As for the cartridge I had no problem matching factory velocities with handloads and in a different rifle that is actually accurate I'm sure it would be a great cartridge. I'm currently considering another one in a nosler brand rifle
 
I have had my Legendary Arms Professional for about a year and it is seriously one of the most accurate rifles I have ever owned.
The 28 Nosler makes tiny groups with practically any 160 gr. bullet I can load and the rifle is outstanding for quality of build.
Brass is not cheap but also not hard to find..
 
The only way they will really make the Noslers( at least the 7mm and 30 ) take off is to license others to make them commercially . Which in turn will drive brass production and therefore make if much more economical( the brass that is). I doubt they have the foresight to realise this.
Just like the Dakotas I am predicting obscurity ....
Licensing is the key to success which in turn will drive the production of reasonably priced brass .
As it is the brass is roughly $4 each...It is doomed to fail unless this changes.
 
Take the 28 Nolser the 195gr bergers a wyatts mag box and a long throat in the chamber. you won't beat the 28 nosler as far as ease of loading (finding the "perfect" load) 195 @ 3150fps is easy to achieve and will shoot in the .1's and .2's at all distances. the 28 nosler does it all and does it all extremely well. I cant think of one down side of the 28 nosler. and don't say expensive brass, if you are in to long range hunting shooting and building rifles money isn't the issue.
 
I currently have 2 on the way one with a 1 in 8 twist for shooting 195 grain bergers and one is a lighter weight rifle for sheep hunting. Brass has been fairly easy to obtain from most gun stores. The nosler brass is all made by norma, so brass is top quality.
 
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