Hirtenberger ammo

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Hi,

I picked up a box of 165 grain Hirtenberger .308 at a gun show this year for a good price. Is this stuff worth much,rare here in Canada or particularly good ammo? I need to sight in my 788 soon, and I was wondering if I should save this stuff and buy something cheap for sight in or just use it.
 
I picked up two 200 round 'battle pack' of the EE early last year, the same member had some more of it listed again a while ago, so it's not really that rare. I used it to sight in my .308 Savage 10BA and shot a lot of paper with the rest of one pack! A friend with a M14 was looking for some ammo, so I ended up selling a pack to him, he really liked it.

The ammo is good, accuracy was similar to, but a bit better than S&B. I have read that the brass is very good to reload.
 
The Hirtenberger isn't rare but it isn't found in large quantities any more.

The 165 grain stuff you speak of is obviously soft point ammunition. Does it come in a box labeled MUSGRAVE with African animals on it??

They also offered it in other packaging as well.

It isn't any better than what is made here in North America as far as out of the box accuracy goes but the brass is excellent for reloading.

The bullets used in those is a bit to frangible for my tastes but if you do your job and place them properly, they will work fine.

By the way, it isn't a good idea to sight in using different ammo than you hunt with, unless you are just using the ammo to get close to POA.

Always do your final sighting in from a cold barrel with the same ammunition and loads you intend to hunt with.

I've seen up to 10 inches of difference in POI between similar bullet weights from different suppliers. Even different lots of cartridges from the same manufacturer will often have different POIs from a previous lot because of component variations. Especially powder and primer suppliers.
 
Yeah they are soft points, 165 grain and the box says "Hirtenberger". Ill post a pic of the box and the rounds soon. I plan to get on target with this, and then dial in the last little bit with the ammo I plan to use, which are 165 grain Hornady SP's.
 
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Go ahead and shoot it. If you got it cheap, that's a cheap sighting round. If it shoots like a dream with your first couple of shots, save it and hunt with it this season.

I don't know about how much you shoot but with my hunting rifle, once the season has started, the sighting in has all been done and 10 rounds is more than enough until it's over.
 
I have some Hirtenberger 7x57R that is Berdan primed. You should check inside your cases with a strong light before running any into a reloading die. It is frustrating to find out you have brass with the two tiny flash holes by breaking decapping pins.
That said, I did find it to be very good shooting ammunition.
 
Longwalker said:
I have some Hirtenberger 7x57R that is Berdan primed. You should check inside your cases with a strong light before running any into a reloading die. It is frustrating to find out you have brass with the two tiny flash holes by breaking decapping pins.
That said, I did find it to be very good shooting ammunition.
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I'm mostly a milsupr guy myself, and when I hear berdan, I think corrosive. Would this .308 SP be corrosive even if it was berdan primed?
 
cote_b said:
I'm mostly a milsupr guy myself, and when I hear berdan, I think corrosive. Would this .308 SP be corrosive even if it was berdan primed?
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Not necessarily. An example of this from the milsurp world is the Swiss GP11 7.5x55, absolutely fantastic ammo which is berdan primed and not corrosive.
 
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