Is there any Swiss Ammo left?

[ConstantinePal]

Howdy y'all I'm not here for a wtb or anything, I'm just wondering if anyone has seen any stores in the DFW or North Texas area carrying swiss 7.5x55. I'd like to actually go to a store to get some. Thanks!

 

[MTA]

I havent seen it in stock online or in a store in DFW in atleast 3 years unfortunately

Someone at a gun show probably has some but get ready to grab your ankles with the prices they are asking

 

[Moonpie]

It's out there but be prepared for nose bleed pricing. Especially the Norma factory stuff. PPU makes it too.
Mil-Surp in quantity is unobtainium anymore.
You can make 7.5 Swiss brass from .284 Winchester brass.

 

[miniion26]

Hard to come by. A good motive to start reloading, perhaps?

 

[satx78247]

Howdy y'all I'm not here for a wtb or anything, I'm just wondering if anyone has seen any stores in the DFW or North Texas area carrying swiss 7.5x55. I'd like to actually go to a store to get some. Thanks!

ConstantinePal,

About 3 months ago, a vendor at the SA Gun Show had NUMEROUS 20-round boxes on his table in both FMJ & JSP.

I've forgotten the brand-name but noted that it was made in SERBIA.
(I stopped & looked at the ammo, as I was looking for 7.62x45mm.)

NOTE: IF I remember correctly, 7.5 Swiss cases for handloading are fairly easily made from .284 brass
BUT
I just got off the phone with my "little brother" who has forgotten more that most people ever learned & he said that PPU is importing 7.5 Swiss.

Ed said: Buy a couple of boxes of factory ammo, keep the cases (PPU uses BOXER primed cases.) & reload them.
(He also said that while the Swiss straight-pull rifles are VERY accurate, they are NOT really strong & you should NOT exceed the data in the reloading books. He further said that 7.5 Swiss is a GREAT cartridge for GCCB use & that that "long, pencil-like 200 grain boolit" works WELL on DEER-SIZE game at about 2200FPS to well beyond 200 meters. = The LYMAN mold # 311644.)

FYI, the 7.5 Swiss is a "ballistic twin" to the S-A War vintage .30-40 Krag cartridge OR the "old-school" loading of the .303 British service cartridge & is fully suitable for taking the same size big game.
(Fwiw, when I was stationed in "K-Town" in the early 1970s, I knew a German hunter who had GREAT success hunting with his circa 1950s K-31 Swiss rifle on Red Deer & Moose, using his GCCB.)

yours, satx

 

[Charley]

PPU does import 7.5x55. As for forming from 284, nothing to it, just lube it well and run it into the 7.5x55 sizing die. I've made a bunch of it, back when 7.5x55 brass wasn't available. People with 284s hated me for using their brass!

 

[ConstantinePal]

Hard to come by. A good motive to start reloading, perhaps?

Yeah I'm strongly considering it. I'm brand new to gun ownership and huntingso I'm trying not to rush into more. But it will be a necessity to reload my ammo in the next couple of years, I bet.

 

[miniion26]

Yeah I'm strongly considering it. I'm brand new to gun ownership and huntingso I'm trying not to rush into more. But it will be a necessity to reload my ammo in the next couple of years, I bet.

My advice, if you plan on keeping the rifle: get the brass at least, since even that is hard to find.
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/73073

 

[robertc1024]

The good thing is it shoots light .308 caliber bullets. When I bought my K31, I was smart enough to buy a case of ammo with it. I haven't reloaded for it yet, but you can be sure I've been saving all the brass.

 

[benenglish]

Mil-Surp in quantity is unobtainium anymore.

The last time I saw some was last October. I assume prices have gone up since then.

 

[rotor]

Graf's has the brass. Might be wise to buy some while they have it.

 

[satx78247]

The last time I saw some was last October. I assume prices have gone up since then.

benenglish; All,

TRUE.
Moreover, the VAST majority of the Swiss "military issue" ammo is BERDAN-primed & thus (at least for most Americans) NOT "reloadable"..

yours, satx

 

[Coyote9]

Howdy y'all I'm not here for a wtb or anything, I'm just wondering if anyone has seen any stores in the DFW or North Texas area carrying swiss 7.5x55. I'd like to actually go to a store to get some. Thanks!

I'll check, I know that I have a Swiss adapter for firing 4mm in a 7.5x55 chamber (ammo available in Ft Worth)