Originally Posted by elkhunter76
Lived 50 miles from Herter's in Mitchell SD as a kid growing up. Was like a dream come true to a kid! Paradise I tell you! Their old catalogs were the best. In their heyday they were easily an inch thick. They certainly expounded on their products but I shot alot of those old banana peel bullets out of my 30-06 at sod rats! Their powder was about half the price of Dupont! Shoot em say I! I think Norma was the manufacturer of their brass. Could be mistaken though. Others more knowledgable here would know for sure.


I sure remember the Herter"s catalogs, they were great. I purchased a ton of stuff from Herter's based largely on the hyperbole in the catalog - everything was the "world's greatest", but then what did a '50's teenager know.