Are the Nosler Solid Base in 7mm at 150 grain design for hunting or target?

Is this new or old?

The Nosler 150 grain bullets in 7mm are designed for hunting.

However, unless you have a good supply of them, I would not get too excited about loading these bullets, as they have just been discontinued, AGAIN.

They are great bullets, but the supply is in serious question.

R Flowers: has Nosler actually announced that they are discontinuing the Solid Base? I see on their website, that they are on sale. And I have been suspecting that they may be discontinued since all the factory loaded Solid Base ammo was put on sale.

This is a sore point with me. I've been mad at Nosler since they discontinued the Solid Base the first and and replaced them with the, IMO, inferior Ballistic Tips. (Especially after they responded to my quiery with a typical corporate: "Nosler has not plans to discontinue blaa, blaa...shortly before they were taken off the market.)

Thanks for any info.

But to answer the original question: IMO the Solid Base was one of the best deer bullets ever put on the market.

Yes, I believe that Nosler has said that it is discontinueing the Solid Base again.

I go to their talk forum a lot and for the last few weeks the header on the forum has said " Solid Base, get them before they are gone". (Now it says someting else.) And on the forum they answered me when I questioned if they were going to be stopping production again. They said that was the case.

I imagine it is just a matter of production capacity. They have so many new bullets that they probably have to cut back on something.

I have toured their plant and it is stuffed to the gills with equipment. They built a new building across the street, but it is for storage and shipping, etc. They cannot run all types of bullets at any one time.

Their Accubonds are selling like crazy and they are surely getting set up to run off lots of the new E-tip bullets.

Like you, I thought the Solid Base bullets were some of the best ever produced.

"Discontinuing" with component manufacturers is an uncertain term.

For many years Nosler did not produce the Solid Base. However, the tooling for their production didn't go away, it was just set aside to produce other bullets. Nosler got back into the Solid Base production in order to furnish some ammunition manufacturers with "OEM" projectiles. The Solid Base bullets reloaders have been recently able to buy were from production overruns and were never intended to be distributed through the normal retail channels.

My understanding is that some time ago Nosler mothballed the Solid Base tooling in order to produce other bullets (just as Winchester rotates the drawing dies for various calibers of brass, which is why you find some calibers "seasonally" unavailable.) So, for the time being, the Solid Base has been "discontinued". Don't be surprised to see it reappear in a few years if circumstances are right. But for now, if you need some, get enough to last you for a while.

I made it though the first production hiatus with my old stock of 6mm/100's and .270/130's and bought enough this time around (plus some .30's) to hopefully make it to the next batch.

Incidentally, I regard them as the very best "non-premium" hunting bullet made.