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They still work.
Ted

Friend of mine was at the range today with his Oehler and his 6.5X55. A dozen 156gr Normas were going close to 2600 with IMR7828, and four different groups were all close to an inch.

Ted

Killed several deer using them in the 7-08. Performed well.. dead deer and no recovered boolits. Nothing spectacular... they just work.

I have used them on deer (red deer mostly) in .303, .243, .308 .30/06, .270, 7x57, 6.5x55, .30/30 off the top of my head. Mostly at close ranges, between 15 yards and 80 yards.

I find the bullets to separate the lead core from the jacket easily and have them down as 'brittle' in my mind; in the light bullets weights they will quite often break into peices. Although, to be fair, this may be something to do with the close ranges I hunt at. Much less likely to in the calibers with a high SD like the 6.5x55 and 7x57.
Quite underpowered ammo in general; eg, the 139 grain 6.5x55 was chrono'd at 2300fps by a friend(a few years ago now though) I remember I refused to chronograph the .270 ammo at one time because its all I could afford at the time and I didnt want to know.

However, 139 grain bullet in 7x57, with its big lead round nose -as slow as it is - kills like the wrath of an old testiment God.

I have it down in my head as cheap ammo, but I have never lost a deer with it, and they have always killed what I shot at, and I dont think I have had to shoot anything twice because the bullet 'didnt work' the first time.

The brass is excellent for reloading.

CarlsenHwy,

I chronied the 308 Win version of that Prvi ammo with the 150g bullet. It checked in at 2705fps ave which I didn't think was too bad, though on the mild side.

I also put a couple of the 30-06 150g versions over the chrony, from memory they were not going much faster; about 2780fps or something. I forgot to write it down.

I have heard the 8mm Mauser versions are very slow indeed but kill well!

Bob, the 8x57 will be slow, I remember I shot some at the range and it hardly kicked at all,and POI was very low and I think it will have been like the American Winchester 8mm, loaded like a .30/30...I never shot a deer with a 8x57 yet though.
...but, try the same thing in Sellier and Bellot ammo and a different story. Which is odd , because the Prvi/Highland stuff is Serbian and the Sellier and Bellot is Czech.

The Sellier and Bellot is a good cheap ammo, more accurate then Prvi Partisan on average and good velocities. ButI think the bullets are hard and don't expand much.