Bend, Ore. – -(Ammoland.com)- Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional products for the shooting sports, Nosler, Inc. has finalized the acquisition of Silver State Armory (SSA).
The addition of SSA’s products and manufacturing capacity is an important step toward Nosler’s goal of providing customers with a reliable source for high demand ammunition products.
“The Silver State acquisition provides a strategic opportunity for Nosler to increase capacity at this unique time in the history of our industry.” – Bob Nosler President/CEO, Nosler, Inc.
About SSA:
Located in Packwood, Washington, Silver State Armory customers include law enforcement, security agencies, hunters and military forces. Company strengths include manufacturing ammunition and component brass for the 6.8 SPC, 5.56 NATO and 7.62×51 NATO.
In March of 2012, Nosler became ISO 9001:2008 certified. ISO Certification provides objective confirmation that the Nosler reputation for quality and consistency can be continually relied upon by distributors, dealers, and customers. At SSA, this same diligent commitment to quality and consistency will be practiced under the direction of Nosler Vice President, Greg Hawley, along with former owners, Art Kalwas and Jeff Kannada.
Founded in 1948, Nosler, Incorporated is a family-owned company located in Bend, Oregon. Nosler is best known for revolutionizing big game hunting with its world famous Partition and Ballistic Tip bullets. With the company motto “Quality First,” Nosler manufactures premium component bullets, brass, ammunition, and semi-custom rifles for domestic and international customers. www.nosler.com
I only bought 3 boxes of SSA 5.56×45 w/62 grnTSX bullets…I should have purchased more. My CORE XIV. W/16″ barrel is putting them in less than a 1/2″ GROUPS @ 100 yds, with a SIGHT MARK red dot…(that rifle in 1/7 loves 62 – 77 gn bullets equally).. I’ve put the 55 gr version in big doe an all the insides slid out together When I unzipped her. The same happened with a 4 yr old buck on the last day of gun season last year. Anyone seen how the the 62 performs?
I recently purchased some SSA ammo from CTD…what garbage! Out 5 boxes, all 5 had rounds of varying length, misshapen tips, many rounds were definitely set back too far into the brass. I sent them back directly to Nosler. I am awaiting the delivery of my replacement cartridges. After reading this, I wish I could have asked for my money back. It will be quite a while before I order from the again. Need to see a long track record of quality control.
I really miss SSA ammo. On rare occasions Nosler makes a small quantity, or if they don’t make it they find it somewhere, then sell it out and shut things down. It’s extremely disappointing. I loved dealing with SSA, they were customer focuses. Nosler apparently feels that everything that SSA did, at least in regards to the 6.8 SPC loads, is below them or something. The discontinued and will not ever again make the “Tac Loads” that SSA sold, which I loved. I could order in quantity under the SSA banner and get ammo quickly. With Nosler I’m lucky if… Read more »
Around November 2014, I bought over $14,000 of ammunition, 12 cases of Silver State Armory ammo. The 6.8 SPC 85 grain SCHP is 500 ft./s under advertise velocity with current muzzle velocity averaging 2550. The 6.8 110 grain TSX is at least 300 feet below advertise velocity at 2200 ft./s. I’m running an LWRC with 14.7 inch barrel. I spent well over $14,000 on low velocity ammo — I got burned bad by SSA and Nosler. Imagine investing well over $14,000 on a lifetime supply of hunting and defense ammo only to find out you got junk!!
SSA operated out of a small section of a business Park in Packwood initially. You could buy ammo out of their office there, when they had it. Packwood is in a very economically depressed area. Logging industry has taken a nose dive and the Forest Service used to employ hundreds of people in the area; now it’s just a small number of employees. SSA had built a much larger facility (something like 20,000 square feet) and had expanded production to several shifts and had hired something like 40 more local people. The expansion was done with ARRA money, to help… Read more »
I been using SSA .308 150 gr Nosler Accubond ammo for whitetail for 2 seasons now, and have taken 2 respectful WNY bucks. One at 150 and the other at 210 yrs. And dropped both in there tracks. Ultimately the best ammo I have ever used. But now I am having trouble finding it, please help.
I bought stag arms prohunter in 6.8 spc specifically shoot ssa 85gr tsx load in my 21.77″ barrel it chronographed at 3200 mvl very little drop to 300yds I dont think hornady can match it I’m sick about it all.
Typical Corp America at work…this is what those dogs do, take and assets and fire and screw the staff of the outfit…very SAD and disgusting actually.
I hear a lot of anecdotal talk about Nosler shutting down SSA but does anyone know why they did? Was SSA profitable? Maybe they were losing money and were going out of business anyway. Maybe they were starting to have quality problems of their own. Did anyone from SSA move over to Nosler? All I saw was Gary saying that as far as he has heard “…none of the plant personnel were offered employment with Nosler.” Well, since Gary hasnt heard it then it must be true. Gary also tells us that Nosler “seized all of the equipment”. Thats ridiculous.… Read more »
Totally agree on boycotting Nosler and will pas the word.
The holding company that owns Remington made the decision to move Marlin. At least they realized they made a mistake and could not put out junk with the Marlin label. I read that key people were brought to NY and all new machining and assembly equipment acquired. I just bought a 336 XLR and the machining is flawless and the action tight and smooth.