does anybody make .330 bullets. I have heard of the 8mm-06 (.323 bullets) and the .338-06 (.338 bullets) and was wondering if anybody ever tried a .330-06, and if so, how did it perform, and what bullets you used.

Bullets were made in .333 for the .333jeffery & later used in the .333okh (basically a .338-06). Woodleigh still makes them as does Hawk. Elmer Keith loved this round & is one of the reasons I have a .338-06 today.

Woodleigh makes two different .330 bullets. Both are 250 grain, one is a RN and the other is a FMJ.

Buffalo Arms Co. offers a selection on jacketed .329 and .330 bullets for the 8x56R cartridge. Ken Waters mentions the use of .329 bullets for a 318 Westley Richards rifle in his Pet Loads book.

I've got a VZ-24 that measures .329/.313 that I plan to test this weekend using the .329 175 grain jacketed bullets from Buffalo Arms. I guess you can call it a 330x57. Don't know how different that might be from a 318 Westly Richards.

The .318 WR is basically, a 30/06 with a shorter neck. Its been around since 1910 and works very well. Barnes used to make them in their old style, DKT made 225 gr. but I have not heard from them lately. I am using the Woodleigh soft and solid 250 gr. with good luck and will use them later this year in Tanzania. Lee.

A former German source for these and many other bullets was

SGS Projektil-Schmiede
Siegfried Georg Stoklossa
Haydnstr. 3
89567 Sontheim

Fax 07325 71 68
Telefon 07325 72 78

C.

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Originally posted by lee440:
The .318 WR is basically, a 30/06 with a shorter neck. Its been around since 1910 and works very well. Barnes used to make them in their old style, DKT made 225 gr. but I have not heard from them lately. I am using the Woodleigh soft and solid 250 gr. with good luck and will use them later this year in Tanzania. Lee.

Yep! lee440 pretty well covered it. The .318 Westley Richards uses a .330" diameter bullet. The case is very similar to the .30-06. (.30-06 brass can be used to make .318 cases.)



Original Kynoch ballistics (28" barrel):
180 gr bullet at 2700 fps.
250 gr bullet at 2400 fps.


(This is not my rifle. It's just a photo I found on the web.)



Also see:
http://www.kynochammunition.co.uk/
http://www.woodleighbullets.com.au/
http://www.westleyrichards.com/

-Bob F.

Interesting! For what's it's worth here is my 330x57:

The Buffalo 175 grain on the left and a Lee cast lead on the right, approx 215 grains. They shoot pretty well through my VZ-24 barrel; my next phase in the project is to how fast I can push the 175's and maintain accuracy. There's no way I can hang the bullets out like the 318 WR; my barrel just doesn't have the throat for those long 330 RNs.