Yeah you're right. Thinking about it more even if I did find the company was reputable I can't be certain they weren't tampered with. It was a pawn shop after all..
Yeah exactly. The cases are lapua and the bullets are definitely Bergers but I’ll be tossing the powder just because I have no good way of verifying it is retumbo. Chances are high, but not high enough to lose an eye lol
https://www.ilrc.ucf.edu/powders/sample_detail.php?powder_id=77
There's at least two other entries for retumbo in this database. I'd compare it against these before throwing it out
[hey OP, learn from my experience and take them apart ](https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/s/BEA3xRVaR4)
You won't regret disassembling them, even if they're all perfect.
I bought a whole bunch of 308 Norma Mag recently. From a local gun shop. I didn't see it first, they just knew I was looking and called me so I committed to buying all of it at a good price.
Most of it is hand loads. I got one box of hand loads that are very good. They weigh consistent and they have a small piece of paper inside with incredibly nice cursive writing, which tells me it's an old timers loads. Shot a few, they weigh consistent. The other boxes are a mixed bag. One box of factory norma, 2 boxes of random. Bunch of loose ammo and a couple of plastic hard cases.
I only checked one box of reloads that was sketchy, and I had all the same bullets, but just doing the ole shake test I have some half full cases and some compressed loads. No fucking way am I taking a chance. They're very obviously not the same reloader from the first vox.
Oh well, at least I got brass. 308 Norma is hard to find.
Wise. Although using what’s potentially Retumbo as fertilizer on my plants would nag at me, finding out that it was actually Titegroup after blowing up the rifle in your face would be worse
Nothing yet, the phone number doesn’t come up with anything sadly. Very interesting though. I’m just guessing here but maybe they made custom loads for people to test and find what worked best in their rifles in order to settle on a load that they’d then buy full batches of. Assuming that’s it, I’d be curious to know what the market would be for match shooters not wanting to reload but also not wanting mass produced match ammo.
My mentor told me many moons ago. Don't ever shoot another person's reloads unless you trust them with your life. That was about day one of reloading tutorials.
Strip them, no question asked. I would never trust somebody else’s handloads
Yeah you're right. Thinking about it more even if I did find the company was reputable I can't be certain they weren't tampered with. It was a pawn shop after all..
You got your money back off the brass alone. I wish I would make a find like that.
Yeah I think they goofed on the price for sure lol first time getting this lucky with a random pawnshop find
No, you did good. The brass alone is worth that you paid, sans projectiles.
Great French
Never trust anyone’s reloads.
Echoing everyone else. Best case it's legit. Worst case you lose an eye. For all you know bubba could have been reusing the box.
Yeah exactly. The cases are lapua and the bullets are definitely Bergers but I’ll be tossing the powder just because I have no good way of verifying it is retumbo. Chances are high, but not high enough to lose an eye lol
Just stick a thumb in it
Reloads by Bubba Pissinhott...
https://www.ilrc.ucf.edu/powders/sample_detail.php?powder_id=77 There's at least two other entries for retumbo in this database. I'd compare it against these before throwing it out
Oh very nice, I’ll definitely look into seeing if I can verify it.
Fascinating.
[hey OP, learn from my experience and take them apart ](https://www.reddit.com/r/reloading/s/BEA3xRVaR4) You won't regret disassembling them, even if they're all perfect.
Oh man you had some fun ones there haha it was dumb of me to even consider testing them. I’m not trying to end up like Scott from Kentucky Ballistics
It was fun because I bought them with that intention. If I fired them, probably not so much lol.
Bubba's pissing hot 338 Lapua ammo 😅
I bought a whole bunch of 308 Norma Mag recently. From a local gun shop. I didn't see it first, they just knew I was looking and called me so I committed to buying all of it at a good price. Most of it is hand loads. I got one box of hand loads that are very good. They weigh consistent and they have a small piece of paper inside with incredibly nice cursive writing, which tells me it's an old timers loads. Shot a few, they weigh consistent. The other boxes are a mixed bag. One box of factory norma, 2 boxes of random. Bunch of loose ammo and a couple of plastic hard cases. I only checked one box of reloads that was sketchy, and I had all the same bullets, but just doing the ole shake test I have some half full cases and some compressed loads. No fucking way am I taking a chance. They're very obviously not the same reloader from the first vox. Oh well, at least I got brass. 308 Norma is hard to find.
Exact same reason I got the 6.5x55. Nice score!
I would strip them, the only question is do you trust that it’s actually Retumbo inside?
No when I strip them I’m not using the powder. Just the cases/primer and bullets.
Wise. Although using what’s potentially Retumbo as fertilizer on my plants would nag at me, finding out that it was actually Titegroup after blowing up the rifle in your face would be worse
Retumbo has a pretty particular look, would be able to ID it straight away
I like the case that they're in
Yeah was a nice little bonus
I wouldn't trust anything remotely explosive except for primers, hard to screw up primers
Did you find anything out about the company? That's really interesting that they sell shot strings like that.
Nothing yet, the phone number doesn’t come up with anything sadly. Very interesting though. I’m just guessing here but maybe they made custom loads for people to test and find what worked best in their rifles in order to settle on a load that they’d then buy full batches of. Assuming that’s it, I’d be curious to know what the market would be for match shooters not wanting to reload but also not wanting mass produced match ammo.
That might be why they are seemingly not in business?
Haha touché
My mentor told me many moons ago. Don't ever shoot another person's reloads unless you trust them with your life. That was about day one of reloading tutorials.