Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

Anyone ever shoot this brand? $340 for 1000 rounds.

http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/c...?$main-Medium$

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te....form1&Go.x=13

Re: Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

Herters is Russian made. Should work great in Russian guns. I wouldn't shoot it through any precision made weapons as it is steel cased. It's basically comparable to Wolf. Bx3

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Great name for ammo = herters = hurters

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Got a case of .380 a couple weeks back. Haven't gotten to shoot it yet. Will likely do so on or about the 20th of February. Will try to remember to report when I do. I landed those rounds at .34/round which is a steal for .380 these days.

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+1000

Do NOT! shoot that in a M1a, ar10 or bolt gun...........You will regret it!

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Is anyone else old enough to remember the Herter's catalog back "just a few" years ago? As a kid growing up, I ordered loads of neat fishing stuff from them.

It's a bit surprising to see their logo used now to sell Russian ammo.

Re: Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title as well. Visions of the .401 Power Mag revolver jumped into my head. I was confused since I thought they have been gone for at least two decades now!

Gregg

Re: Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

If you look at the box of .308 ammo in the first post, it uses the old Herter's logo. I mainly bought fishing/fly-tying stuff from them, but also remember pictures of their "wasp waist" bullets (which sort of remind me of strongly crimped Turkish 8mm bullets).

Also a bit weird...if you go to www.herters.com, it loads the Cabelas website.

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what will they regret? saving some cash? having shot pallets upon pallets of Russian ammo i can tell you it's fine. they only issue i have ever had from steel cased Russian stuff was a crappy box of Ulyanovsk where the powder charge failed and the projectile stuck in the barrel. the polymer stuff wont rub off in your chamber like the old lacquered stuff sometimes did. oh and then there's the "steel case will prematurely wear out so and so and so parts" myth. riiight.. it's malleable enough to actually reload, doubt it's gonna break your gun. but hey, the less you guys buy, the more there is for me.:36_3_16:

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Yeah, the catalog where everything was, "Herter's World Famous, Grand and Glorious, best you can buy anywhere, preferred by Kings and Potentates (Insert product name here like 'Cleaning Patches')"

That Herter's?

Yeah I remember them.

My Dad was in the airline business at the time. George Leonard Herter once wrote the King of Belgium over a lost bag issue with Sabena Airlines....

Re: Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

Yup! Same Herter's.

At the time, I was an "innocent yute" only involved in fishing, and hadn't started going down the path of firearms. I don't remember much of their firearm-related stuff (but regularly hear about Herter's rifles on a number of collectors' -Lists), but used Herter's as a Christmas wish-list source for fishing goodies. I think I've still got my Herter's fly rod & reel stashed out in the garage somewhere.

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Thanks for the memories of the Herter's catalogs! My Dad and me used to pour over it, keeping it my room until Dad would roar, "Where's the g-d catalog!". They had everything. When did they go out of business?

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http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu18.htm

Above is a pretty good and unbiased writeup on steel cased ammo.

http://www.tucsonshooting.com/Pima_P...ical_Rifle.php

And another observation on why I don't shoot steel cased ammo through my precision weapons. In general, it is dirty, less accurate and the looser tolerances of Russian ammo (which work great in AK's) don't lend themselves to the tighter tolerances of match grade barrels/actions.

Other than that, it is cheap and may be good for practice (you can even practice your malfunction drills for real with it:biggrin:) but I would not trust my life to it, or shoot it in a precision weapon. BTW, there is a reason that you don't use a steel bore brush to clean chambers/barrels.:thumpdown Bx3

Re: Herter's International Select Grade .308
 

I think Herter's shut down in 1979.