Norma is a Swedish Company, Finland is our neighbor and make Lapua but both from Skandinavia😉 Bondstrike is a nice bullet!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for including impact velocities at the different ranges. I hope you continue to do so in all your future videos.

Bondstrike is quickly becoming my favorite bullet. It’s some good 💩and paid 50 bucks less a box vs nosler accubond long range in my 300wsm it’s hard to beat

You’re opening up a whole new level of understanding with these tests, for guys like me who for years have suspected bonded bullets are too hard for lighter framed game at longer ranges. I guess this comes from using old school bonded designs that didn’t open up sufficiently for clean killing, and tended to blow straight through longer range game and leave a narrow wound, same as swaged monolithics do. The expansion at range with this design is fantastic and I’d be very keen on trying these on our red deer in .30 cal. If only we could get them!

Thanks you for listing velocity ranges!!!! Awesome work.

Thanks for going over a variety of loads

Yeesh...that is some absolutely wicked expansion for a .30 cal bullet.

I'm a big fan of Norma ammunition. I have factory Norma ammo in 243 Win, 308 Win, 7 mm Rem Mag and 300 Win Mag and I have to say the Norma ammo always shoots the best in my guns. Muzzle velocity isn't always the highest but I can consistently get sub-moa performance from Norma ammo in nearly all my rifles. I couldn't get my hands on bondstrike ammo during the great ammo shortage of 2020 but I did manage to buy lots of .308 caliber bondstrike bullets from Norma at that time. I also managed to get an RCBS reloading kit and I figured I would eventually get around to loading Norma bondstrike bullets in my 308 Win and 300 Win Mag cases. I just wish Norma would bring their 7 mm bondstrike bullets to the North American market.

I used this in its factory 30-06 loading on a an adult whitetail doe at 50 yards. Hard quartering to shot, bullet went in just in front of the shoulder blade, jellifying the lungs, (heart untouched) and the liver had many tears in it from the hydraulic shock, and left a fist size hole in the back of the opposite ribcage. I found damage along the skirt meat and traced that to the rear ham, where the bullet jacket was found lodged just inside the rear quarter. It shed its core and the jacket retained enough momentum to ride the meat just under the skin until it contacted a solid muscle group. Deer ended up running about 100 yards before expiring. You can see on the jacket where the bonding on that particular bullet took unevenly. Lead still adheared in some places and bare copper in others.

Great video !

'Hennifer' would be pleased with the performance of this bullet! Interestingly, the velocity of your load at 500 yards is the same as my 308 Winchester at 35 yards! I would really love to see how this bullet would perform at around 1850 fps. Which would be about 400 yards out of my rifle. Thank you for your work!

Thanks for doing these expansion tests! Glad I found this channel. Would definitely like to see Norma's Evo and ecostrike bullets tested as well.

By no means am I a sharp shooter. But out of my T3 with meopta scope with 30-o6 Norma 150gr. whitetail. I feel like one. I can get quarter size, 4 shot groups at 150 yards. This was done when the barrel was the hottest. Core-lok federal power-shock and Winchester w black plastic tips 1 1/2” groups. About same. Military surplus grande ammo 3” groups. Shot with the barrel cold. Norma is well worth the money. Took the box back to the supplier. Got a full case plus a few boxes all same lot number. Couldn’t be happier.

Very good video guys Thanks

Great job guys. Very informative

Will have to look for them next time.

Great video,….a big hug from Spain,

Ooh I've been wanting to test these

This was a great video. It would be really cool to see how far (or minimum velocity) you can go where it would still expand. If you can't shoot much further, maybe you could load down so that the bullet comes out of the barrel at like 1600 fps. This would give us an idea of the absolute max hunting range. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Nicely done FR.

Great results. Well done. Thank you.

It would be great if you could incorporate bullet length in your charts which would help some hunters to determine stability in their own rifles. I really appreciate all your realistic videos to help us make the right choices in choosing ammo for hunting.

Norma is so accurate in my Sako rifle's. I buy it by the case.

Another great video, thanks!

I bought several boxes of this and selliers blue bullets xrgy to try. I watch a lot of ammo test and Norma always has great deviation even sometime single digit in velocity. Sellier/blazer is tops for me in for low deviation in pistol ammos . I also got some of the federal copper. It’s loaded with Speer hot cor. I’m afraid we are heading towards decreasing ammo number’s steadily with what’s going on in Israel and soon to be Iran.

👍🏻 Thank you!

Norma is great ammo at a very fair price. I am leaning towards Norma alot. I spent a shit load on Nosler ammo last year and was very disappointed in accuracy.

Good test

Would also like to see these tested out of a .308 or 30-06 down to around 1800fps impact velocity.

Glad to see you testing more Norma stuff. With that 100 yard bullet performance, it does make me wonder how it would hold up closer in at those velocities. Not that you would intend to use that particular load at say 50 yards, but if the need came up while hunting.

Love the vids . Want to see some 270 win

Would love to see you use a wider range of velocity. 3000/2500/2000/1500 fps for example would give a person a good idea of performance of the same bullet even if they are shooting a 308 vs your 300wm so it wouldn't matter which cartridge.

I’ve been trying to find a quality .30 caliper hunting bullet for over a year. (Accubond, Partition, Game king). It seems as these are readily available. I will be picking up some of these for load development for my 300 win mag. I’m planning a fall 2023 Elk hunt. Thanks for the video and all the data. They look like an impressive bullet!

I love 180gr bondstike, I would like to see you test 155gr Sierra tmk in a 308. With nosler data you should be able to get close to 3000fps. Thanks again for the great content.

Good results but that much expansion could definitely hinder penetration. I think this would be excellent for deer sized same around 300lbs or less but for heavier game I would rather have less expansion to ensure adequate penetration.

Any idea how these would compare to the older winchester ballistic silvertip ?

Just subscribed! Great work!! My new favorite bullet... BOND STRIKE does it all except come in 7 mm projectiles...So i just read there making 7 mm since 2019.. OUT OF STOCK !!!. What about old school with a tip?? Rem Tipped COR LOKT .. Cor lokt have pbly killed more deer than any bullet, I have personally witnessed a few. would like to see the test will supply ammo if I can find? What caliber ?

This the one bullet i cant find anywhere got a email saying they was in stock go online and by the time i filled out all my CC info n shiping press process and get a message saying sorry out of stock

I kind of like the Oryx better. Still, superb performance for the design type.

Just placing my order for a few boxes. Only x factor is will my Xbolt HC 300 WSM like it, its a federal snob with ammo as far as grouping. Anything Federal even the blue box stuff shoots well. Since this performed so well, any plans to run Bondstrikes on sub magnum calibers such as 6.5cm or 308 win? Thanks guys and another well done, informative video

What are you using for your ballistic coefficient for this bullet? It shoots well for me, but haven’t found a good Bc yet

is the norma bondstrike 300 win mag really this good?

I love the construction as I’m a huge fan of bonded bullets, but that bc on the 180’s in my opinion has to be exaggerated. I haven’t gotten to verify, but it’s claimed bc is higher than vlds in the 200 grain weight class. I’m planning on using the bondstrike in 6.5 through .308 cal but I’m definitely going to have to do the work to verify bc.

Do you guys do factory animal?

Oh nice video guys. I am huge fan of anything Norma! Have you guys tested any Barnes bullets?

You mean our Swedish friends right?

Do you think this bullet out performs the Nosler Partition

I don't buy that .615 G1 BC.. That seems WAY too high. Look at 200gr ELDX (.597 g1) and 178gr ELDX (.552 g1)...

Can you buy there bullets for reloading I presume that this was Norma loaded ammunition

Wonder if the 300wsm is just as good?

What powder did you use for these rounds?

Accubond is better.