Norma HPBT 190 .308 Win. Match

[ovenpaa]

I have a box of Norma HPBT 190 .308 Win. Match item number 17626. Has anyone come across them or heard of them? No idea what they will shoot like but I will find out in a few minutes.

[Robin128]

190gn? Will need a good twist rate???

[dodgyrog]

I bought a lot of them cheap from York Guns some time ago (years) and stripped them for the brass.
They only had around 35 gr of powder loaded which did surprise me.

[ovenpaa]

Brass is about all they are fit for as well. It took a couple of sighters and I was on the money and zeroed at 200m. The electronics showed 3-4cm groups so I was pleased until I peered at the head of one and noticed it had a pierced primer but no sooting around, so keep going, a couple more primers showed a hole where the pin had hit but it was as if the primer had been punched through so off to 600m. They certainly work, I was shooting at a Fig 12 target when all of a sudden a round refused to feed, peering down the chamber I noticed something holding around from entering the chamber, closer examination showed it to be a primer, the bloody thing had fallen out from the shot before. Time to stop. It is either undersize primers or a large primer pocket and I have no way of telling which is a pity

Otherwise the rifle (AI) was very happy and munched it's way through a hundred odd Lapua reloads so I have no reason to fault the rifle.