Campro projectiles ?

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hey guys i see a Canadian brand of projectiles available down here, what is the general gist of them?
i thought i read somewher they were a plated bullet but it looks like these are just a .308 180gr fmj rn sp.... ? 160901 ..


selling here for $55 per 100....



good for hunting deers?
 
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Campro typically makes inexpensive target bullets. I've used hundreds of thousands of them at the range. In .308 I've only seen 147gr FMJ, never a 180gr RN. It's certainly possible they have made those in the past of did a special run though. I typically use their pistol and .224 bullets.

They are not the bullet I think of using when I go hunting but I would imagine just about any 30 caliber bullet will kill a deer.
 
405gr for my 45/70 smack paper pretty good and decent at 100yds from my H&R Buffalo Classic. I’d be curious what or how these would be for deer?
The 55gr fmj shoot well and sit near side by side the Hornady 55gr fmj
I wish they’d bring back the .303 180gr SP

So far no big complaints. Plenty of options for pistol shooters.
 
Maybe Whelan is asking about the 180gr 303 SP then? Presumably if Campro went to the effort of making a SP they intend it to be hunted with. Campro uses plating on pistol bullets but in my understanding most of the rifle bullets are just simple cup and core jacketed bullets.
 
Gatehouse said:
Maybe Whelan is asking about the 180gr 303 SP then? Presumably if Campro went to the effort of making a SP they intend it to be hunted with. Campro uses plating on pistol bullets but in my understanding most of the rifle bullets are just simple cup and core jacketed bullets.
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Initially I thought I seen them as a 303...311....
But when I went back on the site an searched for 308 campro, they showed up as above , 308 180 fmj rnsp !

Worth a call I think, I was looking for 303 stuff haha.

Either way, worth a look.
I'll call them now
 
CamPro 147gr work pretty good in my .30-06 at reduced speed.

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Yep that's what I'm thinking.
Seems like Aussies duno about em. Hence they sitting there.

I'm almost broke at the moment too but watch me prioritise some 30 cal bullets 😂😂😂🫣🫣🤷
 
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This is what the 30 Cal, 180 grain bullets look like.

I found a 500 count box of these at a gunshow in Kamloops last year. They only wanted $100 for an unopened box and for that price, I thought I would give them a go in a couple of rifles with short barrels.

They seem to hold together quite well when shot into a fresh cut, Cottonwood block. I haven't had the opportunity to use them in the field on game animals.

Whelanlad, Cottonwood is a very soft, deciduous tree, which can grow quite large and is quite good for testing bullet expansion.

The CamPro projectiles expanded well and didn't come apart at the 2350 fps I was getting from a 20 inch barrel.
 
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I’ve got a bag of the .311 180gr Sp and have been getting decent accuracy out of a no.4 with iron sights only that I’ve been tinkering with, it was a mess and shot what looked like a buckshot pattern at 100m. After some bedding etc I’ve got it shooting better.

Wish I had bought more than a bag of 500 lol, haven’t tried them in any of my 7.62x54r rifles yet.

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In theory our beloved .303 is the same diameter as both Russian calibres, the 54R and the x39, and projectiles are interchangeable, but the 123gr ones are a bit lightweight in either fullsize rifle. I have run the 123 in .303BR as a plinking round and it did a decent job.

The Campro .38 158 TC does a decent job over some CFE Pistol at ICORE power factor.
 
I never did try the 303 bullets but had good luck with the 308 and 223 bullets
Also good results with the pistol bullets too
They are great for plinking/ casual shooting as they are decently priced
 
Butcherbill said:
I’ve got a bag of the .311 180gr Sp and have been getting decent accuracy out of a no.4 with iron sights only that I’ve been tinkering with, it was a mess and shot what looked like a buckshot pattern at 100m. After some bedding etc I’ve got it shooting better.

Wish I had bought more than a bag of 500 lol, haven’t tried them in any of my 7.62x54r rifles yet.

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Many 7.62x54r Mosins prefer .311-312 bullets for best accuracy results, than can be achieved with the .310 diameter bullets they are intended to shoot.

Just like the Lee Enfields, their bore diameters were given a very generous tolerance range, and that only worsened with wartime production.
 
bearhunter said:
Many 7.62x54r Mosins prefer .311-312 bullets for best accuracy results, than can be achieved with the .310 diameter bullets they are intended to shoot.

Just like the Lee Enfields, their bore diameters were given a very generous tolerance range, and that only worsened with wartime production.
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I’ve got one I suspect is like this, typical war time 91/30. Shoots .310 dia bullets alright but not what I’d call accurately lol.

Hopefully it likes the .311 Campro’s, otherwise I’ll try .312 cast. Would be a waste to shoot Sierra’s or Hornady’s out of it, not something I will ever hunt with anyway.
 
I have an M91 that will only shoot .308 bullets well and an M91/30 sniper with a PE scope that needs .312 to shoot well with jacketed bullets.

I've shot both with powder coated cast bullets, which measure .314 and like most rifles they shoot slightly oversize cast bullets well.

You may not get much, if any accuracy increases with cast bullets that are only .001 over the nominal diameter bullets they're intended to shoot

One thing I do find with my M91 type rifles is they tend to like being loaded rather hot and prefer 170+ grain bullets.
 
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