9.3x64 Brenneke

[PerH]

RWS is weird, even by European gun trade circles.

I would say that they are producing ammunition for the war in Ukraine, and that is why they are booming but not doing much else. I don't know that to be true, but that seems to be the reason.

They also just got bought out by Beretta. So I don't know what that will mean for the future.

I was told the Italians are only interested in producing profitable ammunition. So I think there will be a downward spiral for RWS back to these cartridges if we are lucky.

308
30-06
8x57 IS .323 bullet
222
223
338 Lapua
300 Winchester
6.5x55
6.5 Creedmoor
22LR
22 WMR
9,3x62
7.5x55
The most popular cartridges in Europe, and a few military ones.

Then there is the fairly popular group, probably produced on a couple of runs a year.
8x67 JRS
8x68 S
9,3x74R
7x65R
7x57
7x57R
375 H&H

I was told all the rare metric ones were going to be over. Or at minimum rarely produced.
10,3x68 RWS
5,6x57
6,5x68
9,3x64
404 Jeff
10,75x68
5,6x50
5,6x50R
5,6x52R

And the 10,3x68 which were supposed to be to be « the all new one cartridge for everything anywhere , then it stopped suddenly . No mention of the 400 grain bullets , no audacity in saying «yes we copied a 40 + year old US wildcat «


.404 and 10,75 they stopped making many years ago at Rws as I know btw .

 

[Muskox]

They didn't actually copy anything. Peter Vonow is the "inventor", and Johanes Dickhoff who I also believe is Swiss who worked for RWS got it going.

The problem Per is that you might see it as a big stopper. I have two of them and I see it more in the lines of the 400 Whelen.

I am shooting all weights of bullets from the Woodleigh 400's to the RWS 200's. They all shoot.

It is an unlucky damn cartridge when I am hunting, never seems to be something that wants to die when I have that rifle in my hands. So I have yet to kill anything with it.

I am going to use it on a stag this year, and maybe on fallow deer plus a couple driven hunts. Going to be great.