Austrian Hertinberger Not too accurate?

[y2k]

Anyone else find this the not the most accurate ammo out there?

 

[carbonrod]

I haven't had any in a while, but the stuff I had was decent for surplus.

 

[powmia56]

I thought maybe the Austrian Hertinberger was a rifle I hadn't heard of and was all excited to read about it. Not so much now.

 

[y2k]

I have a Paker Hale that could only print 3 inch groups with it but with Winchester power max (red box) bullets are touching. Kind of weird. It shoots very well in everything else I shoot, Norinco M14, K98k etc.

 

[Wendell]

I've only used one battle pack of 7.62 Hirtenberger, "With the NATO cross."
It was very pretty, and the groups were the largest I've ever seen from my M-14S. I never once missed the (Metric) target; IOW, very pretty s**t.
(I assume that the particular lot was of sub-standard quality.) Even the cheapest copper-washed Norinco s**t had groups that were smaller.

 

[sunray]

It's milsurp. Milsurp ammo isn't loaded for great accuracy.

 

[Keller]

Yeah, same results here. Hirtenberger = not so good. Portuguese Surplus = much better.

It's just too bad that supplies of both have dried up. The days of $80 battle packs are long gone.

 

[simonyzer]

Never had problems with mine......

But... When I picked up mine at Districorp I noticed that my cases were Marked 7,62 MATCH, not 7,62 BALL

I guess was lucky

 

[Oldsmobiler]

The Austrian stuff worked pretty good in my junk and I won a couple matches with it. HOWEVER the best stuff I ever used was the case of Australian surplus that I got my hands on back in 2005...*sigh* those were the days

 

[Hitzy]

The bullet runout was bad on all the Hirten stuff I had....take a round and roll it on the table and you will see what I mean. I think that contributed to the #### groups it would print. Great brass though, I used it to reload with and it lasts for a long time.