Shooting norinco .308 through your nice guns?
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Chances are you wont like the results in accuracy .. and bad ammo or high volume shooting of bimetal does wear faster. There are a lot of factors at play here, but it's all trad-offs in one form or another. Unless you can add info about rifle, intended shooting use etc.. there isn't much more to say.
Bunch of parrots... 
My buddy has a Rem700 5r with a round count of ~9,000.
Approx half were them fast wearing, bi-metal, junk rounds.
9,000 rounds later, it's still sub moa with handloads.
Op, it's junk ammo with poor accuracy, but a ton of fun to bang gongs with.
My buddy has a Rem700 5r with a round count of ~9,000.
Approx half were them fast wearing, bi-metal, junk rounds.
9,000 rounds later, it's still sub moa with handloads.
Op, it's junk ammo with poor accuracy, but a ton of fun to bang gongs with.
Hehehe yeah, let me clarify a little more, high volume as in hot barrel semi. I doubt bolt action plinking is going to be causing a problem anytime soon.
Bunch of parrots...
My buddy has a Rem700 5r with a round count of ~9,000.
Approx half were them fast wearing, bi-metal, junk rounds.
9,000 rounds later, it's still sub moa with handloads.
Op, it's junk ammo with poor accuracy, but a ton of fun to bang gongs with.
I entirely agree. I bought some and it was really variable to put it mildly. Even at 100 metres there was significant variation, and that was in a Norc M305. The 'cheapest' I now go is Austrian surplus 308 which I really like and is accurate. (It is not even remotely accurate, why buy it?)
For a good gun, it is not even worth discussing, don't do it!
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Skip the tula 308 too... I had two over pressure rounds that blew the rim right off. big bang
Bunch of parrots...
My buddy has a Rem700 5r with a round count of ~9,000.
Approx half were them fast wearing, bi-metal, junk rounds.
9,000 rounds later, it's still sub moa with handloads.
Op, it's junk ammo with poor accuracy, but a ton of fun to bang gongs with.
This.
It won't give satisfying groups but it'll be better than not shooting.
Put a lot of NORC through my TRG 22, warm up barrel at start, blow away all the abandon clays at end of day. Accuracy sucks but more than adequate for clay at 200m at 40c a shot. Not wasting hand loads on clays. 308 barrel last way too long anyway, burn it out, rebarrel to 260
Bunch of parrots...
My buddy has a Rem700 5r with a round count of ~9,000.
Approx half were them fast wearing, bi-metal, junk rounds.
9,000 rounds later, it's still sub moa with handloads.
Op, it's junk ammo with poor accuracy, but a ton of fun to bang gongs with.
I've run 5.56 Norinco through my custom 223. Accuracy is poor but better to use that to warm up a barrel than my precision hand loads. If the accuracy is good enough through yours to hit clay pigeons even at 100y, you'll still be having fun and practicing that much needed trigger time.
put it this way, you have a ferarri you dont tend to use the lowest octane gasoline you can find do you? my guns are no different, if i want big bang and lots of it, i will take out a disposable sks and a crate. if i take out the nice girls, i feed em rite.
First of all you can get more then 50 ferrari rounds for the cost of 1000 norcs. Also I wouldn't be interested in buying a used expensive bolt gun that someone shot the cheapest ammo on earth with. Why would I want a gun that is now warn in, in a bad way, and therefore less accurate and shorter life. Though I know all the kind hearted souls on this site would let me know beforehand right??? I wouldn't do it on a expensive gun, of course people have different definitions of expensive gun. Heres what I think. 2 grand or less I would shoot norc through it, more then 2 grand and I wouldn't touch it.
