I hesitate to reload these but surely tempted. Picked up a box of Noslers .308 200 grn. RN couple years back. Fine looking bullet at the perfect bullet weight for its caliber. Attempted some searches on it and find nada on the bullet. When did Noslers manufacture a round nose in this weight and am curious as why they would stop? Seems ideal for my needs here in the Brooks.
Probably no different in reason than that box of .308 Remington 220 RN Mush CL I have. Evolution in technology. thanks

Why, pray tell, do you hesitate in reloading them? Just get data on another 200 grain jacketed bullet and do your usual load workup.

They are great bullets at shorter and medium ranges. Just use the same bullet weight loads and work up.

I am always on the look out for 220gr round nose I shoot them in my favorite hog rifle. They work very well

Are they round nosed or semi-spitzers ? I believe the ss is still being made.
What cartridge ?

Either shoot them, or have your heirs sell them at your estate sale.

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Either shoot them, or have your heirs sell them at your estate sale.

Or melt them down to get the lead out for fishing weights!

From experience these round nose bullets are always exceptionally accurate and give little meat damage. So, as some express it, "You can eat all the way up to the hole."

The only caveat is that if you load too low a velocity on light game...small deer...they will pencil through.

They'll be good in .30-06 and the bigger capacity .30s...but wouldn't, I'd guess. be so good in .308 or .30-40 unless you can get at least 2,400 or so velocity out at the muzzle. As I've never owned either I don't know if that velocity is achievable in them with that weight.

I'm gonna guess that they do not look as "kewl" or lethal as a spritzer. And they gave some nebulous advantages if you shoot beyond 300 yards. I have tried RN bullets in a 7-08 and they are deer hammers.

I used the 200 grain roundnose Nosler Partitions to take my Brown Bear with a .300 Winny near Cold Bay Alaske. I consider it the perfect buller for that round and at the time I felt i should buy every box I came across for a while. I have several But now when I go into Big Bear country I pack a .358 STA. Good shooting.

Thank you fellas, will not now think I've something "priceless". In my last half a century or so just never came across them as loaded fodder. Didn't start reloading till I was like 38 and don't recall seeing them for reloading. Not uncommon for me to "jump" shoot moose, seem like Noslers bailed on a good bullet. Going to load them for my .300 H&H, carry it this spring. Fun fun fun!

300 H&H with a 200 grain round nose bullet sounds as good as pie and ice cream....made for each other!

Nosler differ form most heavy weight bullets in that the heavy weights such as the 200 and 220 gr. Nosler begins its expansion on contact but stops at the partition..I have never had a Nosler pencil thu an animal..I have had them blow the fornt portion completely off and the exit hole would give that impression, but not so, even then the kill quickly as a rule..I have had most RN heavy bullets pencil thru at one degree or another at times. Its pretty hard to determine what a penetrator like that does other than looking at the tissue damange inside, and even that's can be a poor indicator.