For those of you that are familiar with Norma�s bullets, which would you prefer on a deer sized game, the Oryx or the Vulkan ? The caliber given is .308 Win and bulletweight 180gr.

Regards

Oryx every time.

GBF

Since you have choosen such a dull round I guess the only way to spice it up is to use Oryx

My first choice would be 165 grains nosler partitions

/ JOHAN

Deer is not like wild boar, and even so. I used the vulkan with great results in my 308 (180gr), it worked in fact better than the Oryx, a tough bullet which is designed for heavy game, or high vel rounds, and which expansion rate is a bit low when used in standard velocity rounds. The wulkan is a wonderful bullet, which expands quickly yet usually gets out. Th oryx, which I used on medium sized wild boars, and roe buck, killed them fine, but they never stayed on the spot (5 animals). I came back to the good ol'vulkan.
The animals will die anyway, if you put the bullet in the right place.

[ 10-24-2003, 21:03: Message edited by: tigertate ]

� guess the Oryx is better on tougher animals, and since the difference in price is negligeable it would also be my first choice.

Does Norma still make their Plastic Point ammo? I bought 4 boxes of 9.3x62 recently, but haven't been able to find it on their web site.

Stu, the plastic point is still on their homepage. Do you have any first hand experience of them as hunting bullets ?

Regards

The greatest moose hunter ever, Karl-Henry Lundin, who has shot some 1800 moose (!!!) through his life, mainly used the plastic-tipped Norma Silverblixt in his .30-06.

This bullet was, however, notorious in some calibres (not sure if it was the smaller or bigger calibres that had the problem).

Norma has always had the problem with their bullets that they worked good in one caliber but didn't cut it in other calibers.

Except for the Oryx bullet, of course, which really is a formidable bullet in all calibres that easily comapares with bullets 10 times its cost. The single two Oryx bullets I have been able to salvage (all other shots have gone through the game) have retained more than 98% weight...

And not to mention its accuracy...

I wouldn't dream about using any other bullet for moose. Maybe I would use a Brenneke TUG for boar but since there are no boars whee I hunt the issue becomes a bit academic.

/HerrBerg

I just hunted scrub bulls and brumbies in Cape York, Australia a few weeks ago. Shot 4 bulls and 3 brumbies. Used my 9.3x62 with Norma plastic tip factory ammo, I think about 285 grain bullets. No bullet managed full penetration of an animal. I recovered 3 bullets, the rest were lost somewhere in the middle of some fat cattle. We weighed the 3 recovered bullets for (from memory)+/- 150, 180 and 210 grains each. Nice mushrooms. Not sure I'm completely happy with the bullet performance, but a dead animal is a dead animal.

I'll second the Oryx

It doesn't matter! With both of them; don't shoot at bad angles and don't expect it to break heavy boone without part in two (yes, that goes for the Oryx as well). Also, I have discovered that the 200 gr Oryx from my .30-06 tend to give quite a lot of blood-shot meat. Don't know why, but I have been told that others have experienced the same problem.

Go with a Barnes x or Swift A-frame instead.

Oryx every time.