Non-American ammo manufacturers that produce big bore ammo?

Sax, Sologne, Skadi, Kynoch to name a few
 
Northern Shooter said:
They’re back up and running
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You can visit their website. You can see where their current dealers are. Yes the are running for a while now but not cheap.
 
Northern Shooter said:
Canadian here.

Which European / International ammo
manufacturers still produce big bore ammo today? I’m aware of Norma and they’ve been a godsend for affordable dangerous game rounds.

Who else??
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Norma, RWS, GECO, Hirtenberger
 
Federal is owned by The Czechoslovakia Group. Does that count?
 
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Weather we like it or not, right now is the "good ol days." I buy some ammo every month no matter what, like contributing to my roth ira. I basically have a standing order with Midway for shotgun shells.

If they stopped making ammo tomorrow I could hunt as usual for the next 25 years. A little bit at a time adds up fast.

Cheers

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Norma
Sologne
Labor Fur Ballistik
RWS (up to .375 and only soft points)
PPU (up to .375 but ammunition is extremely unreliable for dangerous game hunting)

Norma and Sologne use American bullets (Norma uses Barnes Banded Solids and Sologne uses a lot of Hornady & Sierra & Nosler bullets). So I think that these two companies might not be able to source bullets if there’s any sort of falling out with the US.
 
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Hunter-Habib said:
Norma
Sologne
Labor Fur Ballistik
RWS (up to .375 and only soft points)
PPU (up to .375 but ammunition is extremely unreliable for dangerous game hunting)

Norma and Sologne use American bullets (Norma uses Barnes Banded Solids and Sologne uses a lot of Hornady & Sierra & Nosler bullets). So I think that these two companies might not be able to source bullets if there’s any sort of falling out with the US.
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Of those, Norma and PPU seem to be the only two that are readily available here.

Surprisingly Norma’s big bore ammo is cheaper here than Federal, Hornady, Barnes etc and it’s supposed to be quality stuff.
 
BeeMaa said:
Federal is owned by The Czechoslovakia Group. Does that count?
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@BeeMaa

I knew that the Czech group was planning to buy Remington and Federal. But did the deal end up going through ?
 
Sologne is entirely new to me.. Did any of you try out this ammo..?
 
Sax is new to me, looks like they produce everything up to 600NE.

Not seeing any stock in country unfortunately.
 
Northern Shooter said:
Sax is new to me, looks like they produce everything up to 600NE.

Not seeing any stock in country unfortunately.
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Hopefully, some of these European manufacturers will jump on the opportunity to fill ammo orders in Canada.
 
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DieJager said:
Big bore ammo?
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RWS definitely. GECO used to do at least medium bore. I haven’t seen any interesting GECO in North America in ten years, they now focus on 308/40/45/9/223.

Necg was an RWS dealer and they still have some on their website I think. Have a look at what calibers remain.
 
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