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DF

Too bad you don't have any of their "Banana Peel" bullets. They were the Best of the Best in the World!

One little-known fact is that Herter's bullets all had such high ballistic coefficients they actually gained velocity while in the air. But being a naturally modest guy, George Leonard Herter didn't want to brag too much, so stuck to the basics.

I have a book by Jaques Lee Herter on how to be a proper guide.

It is frickin' hilarious!


Jaques was not so modest!

LOL. Even when I was a little kid and reading the catalogs, I wondered how everything with Herter's name on it was the absolute world's best. BTW, who made the bullets for them?

John,

The Herter catalog made for very entertaining bathroom reading and I always looked forward to it.

They don't make them like that any more.

I'm surprised that GLH did not find a cure for cancer, a car engine that ran on water, a rifle bullet that went around corners and a fishing lure that made fish jump out of the water and into the boat.

He is missed.

Steve

Yes, I do have very few 30cal wasp waisted bullets, Yes, I have shot some. Not really accurate in my rifle.
And no, I'm not 100 yrs. old.

Yep, Herter had the same effect on me as a kid. Great entertainment and I looked forward to getting that big ole catalog. There wasn't much in life not covered...

DF

As a young man I too found the Herters catalog very entertaining. I have actually shot and used the wasp waist bullets in 130gr 270 cal. I honestly don't remember how accurate they were because in those days almost never fused over group size. If I could hit what I shot at I was satisfied. I did kill a couple of California mule bucks with them and lots of jack rabbits. Made every thing plenty dead.

So,they shot good enough.

I too have an old box of them but have not tried them. I did shoot some of the loaded ammo back in the day from a bubba'ed 303 enfield I bought from a guy that worked for my dad and a buddy found several boxes for a 6.5 x 55 he has. The loaded ammo shot very well but the 6.5 was very slow as in 30-30 types of speed. I believe the ammo came out of Finland iirc.

I to have used Herter bullets. Both the reg. and the Wasp waist ones. Used the Wasp in a 30-40 and they shot very well so I saved that box for loading that gun. Several years ago a table at our gun show had lots of Herters bullets and the price was right so I bought several boxes just for blasting. I have about 50 left. These just shot just so so. All of these were .30 cal. I think they are softer than other cup and core that I have used. But in the 30-40 that was not a problem.

Gonna try the Semi-Pointed this weekend and after that the Wasp-Waist ones.

I still have a reloading manual & both volumes of the Bull Cook recipe books. Very entertaining reading. I loved those big thick catalogs, and ordered from them regularly.

I believe some of the bullets were made by Norma. A lot of Herters stuff was made in Germany and Scandanavian countries, none of that cheap Jap & China stuff! In spite of the colorful prose, most of his products were pretty good.

You can still buy Herter's brand shotgun shells. Cabela's has them. If you wait for the sales, they are so cheap that it does not really pay to reload. For trap they are as good as anything, in my opinion. I heard that they were made by Cheddite in Europe.

I recently bought gun cases with HERTER on the side.

I doubt it's the original bunch, someone evidently has rights to the name.

DF

I have a full box of .263 round nose bullets, kinda hate to use them, but should try.

Be neat to kill a deer with them. And even better to recover a bullet from the dead deer,just to see what it look like.

Think that is what has happened.

Loved Herter's as a kid...living in the middle of nowhere, we mail ordered a lot of stuff. Sometimes by the time you got it, you'd forgotten that you'd ordered it.

We kids all hated Jaques Herters Jr. Little bastid got to go all over the world setting records and killing schit while we had to go to school and hunt rabbits on weekends.

Several years ago my brother gave me a 1964 Herters catalog for Christmas....great, nostalgic reading.