Norma 38 Spl 158 gr FMJ Ammunition Desktop Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- This astounding ammo from a well regarded company sells on sale price at MidwayUSA $20.39 for a box of 50 or 41 cents a round. Plus it has 9 reviews at 5 stars - glowing reviews. It's factory ammo and looks good. This is a desktop review to give viewers the opportunity to put the nab on some of this ammo before it's gone...
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I have shot so much of this stuff that now it’s my goto brass for reloading! Lasts forever. You get affordable factory ammo, then excellent brass for reloading. Great stuff, great review.
Good Morning FC, every time I do a cost breakdown like this and I compare it to what is available, I smile, knowing that I am a handloader/caster! WooHoo! Thanks to all those smelting, casting, prepping, set up, etc videos that got me all started correctly. We don't see deals like this in Canada.
Great tip. Just placed my order. Thanks for the heads up.
Not bad if you need some brass. Personally over the years I have collected enough brass to last 5 people forever so brass is free, just bought 20 - 50 round boxes of new Winchester nickel brass for a Jackson at a small show which is where I find my deals. I cast my own 158gr RNFP Lee bullets from free scrap and powder coat them, fired them out of my 20" Rossi lever gun at 1700fps with no leading, clean up is just a few passes with a brass brush and a swab with some mineral spirits. I buy the cheapest powder coat I can find sourcing it from local shops when it gets mixed, got some crazy colors there so it's basically free. My bullets only cost me my time. Primers, I'm still working off cases I bought for 30 bucks/1000. I just scored 3000 that were given to me because they were CCI out of the 70's, still work fine but I have seen them locally for 65 beans/1000. As for powder I shoot a lot of Promo, same as Red Dot just half the price, works fantastic in my 38's, 357's and my 44 Specials that just love the stuff. So I'm looking at 8-10c /round all in. Add a Berry's plated bullet, new primers and a high performance powder and your right on with your price. Half the fun of reloading for me is scrounging components and producing quality ammo for penny's, keeps me shooting too. One thing though, you might have to add the cost of your equipment over time, my Dillon SDB's and RCBS Rock Chucker didn't come cheap but they continue to pay for themselves to this day.
I have been using NORMA .357 Mag. brass since 1970's. Use to buy new unprimed brass for a few bucks a box of 50 cases. To the best of my recollection I have had few cases split and my losses are primarily due to lost (unable to find in high grass) cases. Never have had any problems resizing the brass, no stuck cases whether using case lube or carbide dies. All in all, 50 plus years I have no complaints with NORMA.
Norma ammo is located way out in he bush in a small place called Åmotfors, quite far from Stockholm, I'd say 4-5hrs drive.
I’ve been reloading over 30 years and 90% of the time when I’ve encountered a piece of brass that gets stuck in a carbide die or with a deformed primer pocket, it is Norma brass. Thankfully I have over 10k pieces of .38 brass and can simply cull any Norma pieces. Cheap isn’t always a bargain, especially when you have a stuck case in a sizing die.
I have that Henry mug! Love it!
I always appreciate The Hot Lead Zone’s goal of providing useful information to shooters and reloaders. I would like to help contribute to that useful information by letting my fellow reloaders know that .38 caliber FMJ projectiles are available from a couple of different websites at prices between 10 and 13 cents apiece. I am not sure whether the rules allow me to mention those websites here in this comment. There is also a website that has .38 spl and .357 Mag rounds consistently available at a price of $19.99 per box of 50 rounds. They look as though they are probably produced in the same facility as Geco and these Norma rounds and they get good reviews from customers. They come in a green box but I am not sure if the rules allow me to mention the name they are branded under. Take care and good shooting!
The brass is incredible, you can load this brass so many times.
Love the 38 Spl.
My guess is this is actually made by GECO. Norma and GECO are both owned by the same company. Good value none the less.
Sadly, living in California, I can't buy ammo online. When we leave the state that won't be a problem anymore. -- I just checked, and at least as of June 17th it's still at the sale price.
Been shooting my reloads for 42 years .... 158 gr hard cast swcl win 231 @ 6.0 grs +P 1000 fps , found the loading data in a really old old reloading book . Please more videos Alan Thomas
I've been using that stuff for years. It is +p. It is stout from an air weight. Very good ammo and they have a matching defense round (blue box) in a hp that seems nice though i cannot find a YT test for it.
Thanks for the heads up on the sale.
The fmj's are probably good bear defense loads in both calibers.
10 cants per primer!!!
I'm glad I stocked up before the marching hippies closed down the San Francisco Gun Show.
I paid 2 cents per primer before the pandemic, and I don't think we'll ever see that price again.
Well hopefully Norma brass isn’t like Fiocchi and Aguila with the annoying off center flash holes. Makes depriming a pain!
I bought 30 boxes of this stuff pre covid and I’m still shooting it
Have you noticed how cheap and plentiful 9mm ammo is now?? 21 cents as I write this ($245 for 1000 with shipping for CCI Blazer). But I can still load 38 spl cheap! My cost to reload with FMJ would be 3.3 cents a case - I bought years ago 3000 once-fired cases for $100. All the rest of the components were purchased within last 3 years. Powder 4.8gr of HP38 over 125gr bullet. Powder cost 1.37 cents (HP38 I bought 3 years ago), I have no idea how you came up with 7 cents!!! Even if I doubled the price of the powder as one I bought THIS YEAR from Cabela's. I paid $32 for Accurate No. 2 before tax and if I was loading 158gr bullet that would take only 4gr max - this still comes out to only 1.83 cents. Primers - just last week I received primers (American made) 4.4 cents SHIPPED! Bullets, I bought 2k of jacketed bullets with soft lead HP nose. They were 10 cents a piece and shipping was free. That's 15.77 cents per round and if I throw in 3.3 cents for cases, that's 19 cents a round. Now I hardly shoot FMJ bullets because casting your own is a LOT cheaper. Local scrap yard prices is $1 per lb. Doesn't matter if its soft lead, or Linotype or lead solder. One time I bought 500lb of Linotype and he gave me a deal 70 cents a pound! Driving cost is just few miles down the road, I don't count that. Powder coat, I bought HF stuff and still have not ran out, then I bought 3lb from local powder coat company for $10/lb and after thousands of bullets coated there is still plenty left over. I don't even count that cost since its been years and years since I bought that PC and I won't need it any time soon. Since I prefect to shoot and cast lighter 125gr and 105gr bullets my cost 7.5 cents per round of loaded 38 special. Here's another trick I did. I bought a bunch of pulled 9mm FMJ bullets as well as plated and I bought old C&H swage die on eBay and swaged up a bunch of these 9mm bullets to 357 so now I don't ever have to worry about paying premium price for 357 bullets.
My .38 Sp ammo source for life is me...first round I learned to reload so I have a LOT of .38 Sp : )
I live in Washington state. I just bought full metal jacket 38 Special 158 grain ammo by Ammo Incorporated from our local Bi-Mart membership store for $25.99 for a 50 round box. No shipping or hazmat fees. I have everything to reload except time.
I am in WA too. I have Dillon RL1100 and added the bullet feeder recently in 9/38. Loading for me is just pulling handle once everything is setup. Just stop every 100 rounds to refill the primers. I can help you if you need it.
Thanks legend, I hope that when you fire these Norma rounds off at the range you can let us know how they perform.
I've got beef with Norma brass... I've found their 223/556 brass has very small flash holes. My Redding FL sizing die's decapping pin always get stuck in the flash hole and then gets pulled out of the die.
I then have to stop and get a punch and hammer and pound it out of the case. Total PIA...
I have heard that recently and seems to be a trend, I wonder why?
I did subscribed to this channel because the specifics on reloading cartridges ...am i missing something? Like a "zoom " overhead?
Cookie you never age, what's your secret?
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Steve, you must have moved out of Kalifornia if you are buting ammo from Midway. I notice your reloading room looks different, and the Hot Lead Zone sign is nowhere to be seen. Congrats. It really is getting stupid here. Good deal on the ammo. I was thinking, that bullet in a 357 would be decrnt for bear defense. Lo and behold, here you come with 357 ammo. You read my mind. Good shooting to you
Always looking for a deal.
When your living in California do ya still have to get ammo shipped to an FFL and does this slow down the shipping and time driving to get your ammo ?? Also does your FFL charge you for this too ?? thank you ....
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Norma makes great .22 lr ammo. Rws is who makes it but its a lot cheaper than Rws.
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I'm out of touch with ammo prices. It makes me even glader (is this a word?) that I reload.
I pay for a bag of 1000 158gn`s for just under 100$ woop
Did I hear you in an earlier video say you are in Ohio? I am in central Ohio myself.
This new Norma ammo is made in the USA 🇺🇸. It's probably cheap because they want to get their feet into the US bargain market.
.40 each? Meh. I can make for under .30 each. If you’re paying .21 each for a copper projectile, you’re crazy. You didn’t include the added cost of tax and shipping in your calculations. Pushes cost up to .43 to .45 each. Still not great.