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Has anyone ever seen 7mm 155 grain Norma bullets? I came across a box of 50, it is ancient and falling apart, but clearly marked Norma. The bullets appear to be perfectly good, exposed lead round nose soft point style, silver metal jacket as on many Norma bullets. Plan to use them in a 7x57 Steyr M72 that has a taste for heavier bullets, does not shoot 140 grain slugs at all.

Any thoughts out there??
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Check them with a magnet. They may well be mild steel. If so they had a reputation for not opening and are reputadly hell on bores.
 
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Hey 1894
Very interesting. Did the magnet test and found that every "silvery" Norma bullet has a steel jacket, reloads and factory. Same goes for RWS, and I have been using these bullets for years. Can guarantee that they do open up in the 6.5x54mm and 6.5x55 cartridges, cause I have the venison to prove it. Have not had the hunting experience with those bullets in 7mm.
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Glad to hear they work! For hunting they are no doubt fine but I would not want to be shooting large volumes of them through a treasured barrel.
 
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Norma used to use jacket metal that they called "Tri-clad". It was a mild steel jacket with gliding metal on both sides. The gliding metal on the outside was thick enough the mild steel core would never touch your rifling. The front section had fault lines scribed in the jacket material (similar to what Hornady does today)to ensure expansion. The stiffer mild steel core did not bend back 180 deg like most soft jackets do but bent out at approx 90 deg when it hit meat. This created a very effective wound. I used them for a number of years and was very happy with their performance.Unfortunantly the Canadian dist stopped importing them and the supply soon dried up.
 
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