Description
Norma WHITETAIL™ - Reliable. Effective. Affordable.
World-renowned quality within reach.
Going back to the basics with our NORMA Whitetail line, now extended with NORMA’s classic soft point bullet Alaska. When hunting season starts, you want to be able to count on your ammunition. NORMA’s Whitetail line of ammunition is loaded with the highest quality brass that meets and exceeds the standard set forth by reloaders. NORMA Whitetail is designed to deliver the shot to shot performance you need to ensure your next hunt is always successful.
Soft Point™
NORMA's Soft Point is a popular classic among deer and big game hunters all over the world. It features a flat-based bullet which offers consistent accuracy every time. The exposed lead tip, coupled with a quick expanding lead core, results in fast knock down effect and deep penetrative performance, delivering all its energy in the vital organs.
Precision loadings
NORMA Whitetail is loaded in Åmotfors, Sweden, with the same consistency and care as all NORMA Ammunition.
Norma Brass Case
NORMA Whitetail features NORMA's famous high quality brass cases which allow the shooter to maximize their investment in the NORMA Ammunition. The cases are well known for their superior consistency and high reloadability, due to the perfect blend of high quality copper and zinc, together with a long heritage of in-house developed manufacturing techniques.
- 270 Win.
In 1925 Winchester introduced a .30-06 case necked down to a bullet diameter which until then never had been used any British or other European manufacturer: .277”. The result was to become one of the most popular hunting cartridges in the world. When introduced it offered better long range performance than any other available big game cartridge. It was the favorite of the late gunwriter Jack O’Connor who through his writing popularized the .270 everywhere in the English speaking parts of the world. In Europe it also became widely used, but met heavy competition from the many popular 6,5mm cartridges and especially the 7x64 Brenneke. Over here it was never called by its metric designation - 6,9x64 - but kept its American name of .270 Winchester.
The success of the .270 was undoubtedly partly due to fact that it has a combination of a flat trajectory and a very manageable recoil with the standard 130 grain bullet. At normal hunting ranges a well placed bullet from a .270 means instant death to all species up to the size of mule deer, and many hunters prefer it for mountain hunting as respectable muzzle velocities and equivalent trajectories can be had from a 22” or even a 20” barrel.
Whether the .270 is an elk cartridge or not has been discussed endlessly, but hunters who do intend to use the .270 Win. on these species are recommended to use bullets in the 150-160 grain range in order to ensure sufficient penetration. With 100 grain bullets the .270 is also a fine varmint cartridge, although not intended to be when originally designed.
