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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 642382" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>The story I was always told was that they do some kind of an application process to get the contract to supply rifles for the U.S. Palma team. Somewhere along the line Remington got the contract to supply "X" amount of rifles. The teams then evaluated them, and rejected them (I do not know why). Later it was awarded to Wm. Ruger, and they too were rejected. Supposedly both sets of rifles are somewhere in the same wharehouse gathering dust. Think the wharehouse is in the upper northeast part of the country, but could be just as wrong. </p><p> </p><p>I never knew that they ever used anything but the Sierra Palma bullet in a .308 case. Always thought that their was somekind of a bullet spec, and Sierra was contracted to make them (although there is more than one 155 grain bullet made out there. In the AA manual (the only manual I know that actually publishes Palma loads for the Sierra bullet other than Sierra) they list a 30-06 Palma load! I always thought that you only used the .308 case only.</p><p> </p><p>All the info I ever heard about the above was mostly second handed, and from your post I can see I was probably in error. Yet I think we are in the same direction of thought. We don't shoot Palma matches around here (that I know of), but have always found the concept to be most interesting. Had we shot them around here much I might have tried that route thirty years ago when I had a young man's eyes! </p><p> </p><p>It's very interesting what you can pick up from in a casual conversation around here.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 642382, member: 25383"] The story I was always told was that they do some kind of an application process to get the contract to supply rifles for the U.S. Palma team. Somewhere along the line Remington got the contract to supply "X" amount of rifles. The teams then evaluated them, and rejected them (I do not know why). Later it was awarded to Wm. Ruger, and they too were rejected. Supposedly both sets of rifles are somewhere in the same wharehouse gathering dust. Think the wharehouse is in the upper northeast part of the country, but could be just as wrong. I never knew that they ever used anything but the Sierra Palma bullet in a .308 case. Always thought that their was somekind of a bullet spec, and Sierra was contracted to make them (although there is more than one 155 grain bullet made out there. In the AA manual (the only manual I know that actually publishes Palma loads for the Sierra bullet other than Sierra) they list a 30-06 Palma load! I always thought that you only used the .308 case only. All the info I ever heard about the above was mostly second handed, and from your post I can see I was probably in error. Yet I think we are in the same direction of thought. We don't shoot Palma matches around here (that I know of), but have always found the concept to be most interesting. Had we shot them around here much I might have tried that route thirty years ago when I had a young man's eyes! It's very interesting what you can pick up from in a casual conversation around here. gary [/QUOTE]
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