Ended up with a few boxes of speer 275 grn .333 bullets. Any idea when they were made?

I bought a box of speer 275 grain .338 thatt had 7or8 .330 dia. mixed in with a few years back.

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Originally posted by theback40:
Ended up with a few boxes of speer 275 grn .333 bullets. Any idea when they were made?

Quite a while ago. Post a photo of the boxes and that might help narrow the date a little, but probably the 1950's.

The .333's were made for the .333 OKH, a .300 H&H necked up. The "K" in OKH is for Elmer Keith, who was a proponent of the round. Can't remember who the "O" and the "H" stood for, but the "O" was DEFINITELY not Jack O'connor.

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:

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Originally posted by theback40:
Ended up with a few boxes of speer 275 grn .333 bullets. Any idea when they were made?

Quite a while ago. Post a photo of the boxes and that might help narrow the date a little, but probably the 1950's.

The .333's were made for the .333 OKH, a .300 H&H necked up. The "K" in OKH is for Elmer Keith, who was a proponent of the round. Can't remember who the "O" and the "H" stood for, but the "O" was DEFINITELY not Jack O'connor.

O'Neil, Keith, Hopkins - OKH

IIRC the 333 OKH was closer to but not exactly a .333-06, Stonecreek. The 334 OKH was the one made from the H&H brass. They later made a shortened version that might have been called the 333 OKH Belted, which was inspiration for the 338WM.

I saw pictures of them all a while ago but can't remember where at this moment.

Elmer was a big fan of the 275-grain Speer .338 bullet and perhaps this thread reminds us where that came from. Initially, he had used 250 and 300-grain Kynoch slugs made for the 333 Jeffery(s) but had found them too brittle. Since he lived in Idaho, you can bet he got into Speer's ear and persuaded it to make some alternative.

might have been in Ackley's book.

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IIRC the 333 OKH was closer to but not exactly a .333-06, Stonecreek. The 334 OKH was the one made from the H&H brass.

I think you're right about that. Both used .333" bullets.

I sold 10 boxes of Speer 275 gr; bullets that were .338 as far as I know/ they were discontinued about a year ago. We shot some elk with them. great bullet. Im thinking ,333 bullets have been out of production for many years.

the 275 gr 338 bullets I'm talking about were sold out for $22 a box by Graf's or Midway.

The 333 OKH -OKH stood for Oneil-Keith-Don Hopkins
all worked together to design a rifle utilizing 333 bullets as those available for the 333 Jeffery
magazine rifle. It is covered in frank Barnes "Cartridges of the World".
The 338-06 is a wildcat I have using a pre-64 model 70.
It is a close relative of the 333 OKH and Barnes states can use the same loads as the 333 OKH.