PRVI Partizan
Still loading 7.62 Nagant, 7.92x33 Kurz and 8x56 RS Mannlicher cartridges. And the brass to reload them.
Image: Prvi Partizan a.d.
- Founded 1928
- Factory Užice, Serbia
- Workforce Over 1,000 people
- Catalogue Over 400 cartridge types
- Categories Ammunition
History
A century loading what nobody else loads any more
In 1927 Jakob Posinger moved his workshop from Kranj, in present-day Slovenia, to Užice, by agreement with the army and the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The factory started up on 1 May 1928 inside the «Stevan Nemanja» barracks at Krčagovo, with 150 workers for the first two years. In 1935 the town council gave it the land for a new factory: the first stone was laid on 20 June 1935, and from it came the first private factory of its kind in the Balkans, under the name Užice Arms and Ammunition Factory (FOMU).
During the Second World War, ammunition production was moved into the underground vault of the National Bank. Užice was, according to the company itself, the only town in Yugoslavia — and possibly in Europe — where an arms factory kept working under occupation. It stopped on 22 November, when an explosion caused by sabotage killed more than 120 people. On 5 September 1947 the factory took the name Prvi Partizan.
Today it is three plants, more than a thousand workers and more than 400 cartridge types for rifle, pistol and revolver. Before the end of 2015 they raised two new facilities, one for bullets and one for cases, and the house works to the certified systems ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
What sets this brand apart from any other is not the 308 Win. It is that its production lists still include 8x50 R Lebel, 8x56 RS Mannlicher, 6.5x52 Carcano, 6.5x51 Arisaka, 303 Savage, 7.7x58 Japanese, 7.92x33 Kurz, 7.62 Nagant, 7.63 Mauser and 9 mm Browning Long. For whoever owns one of those guns, PRVI Partizan is not one option among several: it is the one there is. And for those who prefer to handload, the same house sells them the case and the bullet.
Product families
What we distribute
Grouped by product line, with the calibres inside each one. The full list, with formats and availability, is at the shop.
Centrefire rifle ammunition
From the hunting soft point to the match HPBT, by way of military calibres almost nobody else loads.
Standard line
Soft point in its SP, SPBT, PSP BT and SP RN variants: the house hunting ammunition and the bulk of the catalogue. From the 22 Hornet to the 45-70 Government, with the usual European calibres: 7x57, 7x65 R, 8x57 JS, 8x56 RS, 9,3x62 and 9,3x74 R.
Loads
- 22 Hornet · 45 gr SP
- 222 Rem · 50 gr SP
- 22-250 Rem · 55 gr SP
- 243 Win · 90 gr SP
- 243 Win · 100 gr SP
- 6,5x55 · 139 gr SPBT
- 270 Win · 130 gr SP
- 270 Win · 150 gr SP
- 7 mm-08 · 140 gr SPBT
- 7x57 · 139 gr SP
- 7x57 · 173 gr SP
- 7x65 R · 173 gr SP
- 7 mm Rem. Mag. · 174 gr SP
- 7 mm Rem. Mag. · 174 gr PSPBT
- 30 M1 Carbine · 110 gr SPRN
- 30-30 Win · 150 gr SP
- 30-06 · 150 gr SP
- 30-06 · 165 gr PSPBT
- 30-06 · 180 gr SP
- 300 Win. Mag. · 165 gr PSPBT
- 300 Win. Mag. · 180 gr SP
- 303 British · 180 gr SPBT
- 308 Win · 150 gr SP
- 308 Win · 180 gr SP
- 7,62x39 · 123 gr PSP
- 7,62x54 R · 180 gr SPBT
- 8x56 RS · 208 gr SP
- 8x57 JS · 196 gr SP
- 9,3x62 · 285 gr SP
- 9,3x74 R · 285 gr SP
- 375 H&H Mag. · 300 gr SPRN
- 45-70 Gov. · 405 gr SJFP
GROM
The manufacturer's own bullet: copper alloy with a small lead core. The house describes it as controlled expansion, deep penetration and mass retention, and aims it at big game.
Z-GROM
The same projectile with a tin core instead of lead. It is the lead-free version of the GROM, with the same weight and the same velocity and energy tables.
Match
The match line: hollow point boat tail, tight tolerances, primers of uniform quality and powders chosen so the ballistics do not shift from one box to the next.
Full metal jacket (FMJ)
Full jacket, for target shooting and for military-calibre arms: 7,5x54 French, 7,5x55 Swiss, 7,92x33 Kurz, 30 M1 Carbine and 300 AAC Blackout.
Pistol and revolver ammunition
The house tradition lies in the handgun, and it is where the calibres the rest of the world gave up for dead survive.
Pistol
Jacketed and semi-jacketed in 9 mm Luger, 9 mm Short, 7,65 Parabellum and 7,63 Mauser. That last one is the case that explains the whole brand: everyday ammunition for a gun of 1896.
Revolver
Lead wadcutter for precision shooting, soft point and semi-jacketed for the rest. It includes the 7,62 Nagant, the long-case cartridge of the Russian revolver of 1895.
Blank ammunition
It comes from the house military production. The case, once steel with a Berdan primer, is today brass with a standard Boxer primer.
Blank cartridge
Brass blanks for film, salutes and practice, in the usual long-arm calibres and in 9 mm. The 9 PA is the one for blank-firing guns; the rest are for real firearms.
Reloading bullets · rifle
The same projectiles its ammunition carries, sold loose in boxes of 100. It is the part of the catalogue that keeps the handloader going.
Soft point (SP, SPBT, PSP BT, FSP)
The hunting family: soft nose in round, spitzer or flat-nose form, with and without boat tail. From .224 to .375.
References
- .22 · 50 gr SP
- 6 mm/.243 · 90 gr SP
- 6 mm/.243 · 100 gr SP
- 6,5 mm · 139 gr SPBT
- 6,5 mm · 140 gr PSP
- .270 · 130 gr SP
- .270 · 150 gr SP
- 7 mm · 139 gr SP
- 7 mm · 173 gr SP
- .30 · 110 gr SP RN
- .30 · 150 gr SP
- .30 · 165 gr PSP BT
- .30 · 180 gr SP
- 7,62x39 · 123 gr SPRN
- .303 · 150 gr SP BT
- .303 · 180 gr SP BT
- 8 mm · 139 gr SP
- 8 mm · 196 gr SP
- 9,3 mm · 285 gr SP
- .375 · 300 gr SP RN
- .30 · 150 gr FSP
- .30 · 170 gr FSP
Full metal jacket (FMJ, FMJ BT)
Full jacket for target shooting and for reloading military calibres, in the weights the originals call for: .303 at 182 gr, 8 mm at 198 gr, .30 at 145 gr.
References
Match (HPBT)
Hollow point boat tail for those who build their own match ammunition. It is the same bullet the factory-loaded Match line carries.
GROM
The house big-game bullet, loose, in the three calibres it is made in.
References
Reloading bullets · handgun
Jacketed, lead and semi-jacketed, in boxes of 100, for pistol and revolver.
Full metal jacket (FMJ)
From 6,35 to .45, with the full weight range in 9 mm — 93, 94, 115, 124, 130 and 147 gr — and the 7,63 Mauser and 7,62 Tokarev bullets.
Lead (LRN, WC)
Bare lead: round nose for general use and hollow-base wadcutter for precision revolver shooting.
Semi-jacketed (SJFP, FPJ)
Semi-jacketed or jacketed flat nose, for the revolver and pistol calibres with more energy.
Reloading brass
Virgin unprimed brass, in boxes of 100. The manufacturer maintains that its case takes several reloads without losing quality, and that is what has made it known among handloaders.
Rifle brass
Here lies the brand's reason for being: 6,5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer, 7,65x53 Argentine, 7,92x33 Kurz, 8x50 R Lebel, 8x56 RS Mannlicher and 8x60 Mauser live alongside the 308 Win and the 300 Blackout.
Calibres
- 22 Hornet
- 22-250 Rem
- 222 Rem
- 223 Rem
- 243 Win
- 6,5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer
- 6,5x55
- 6,5x57
- 270 Win
- 7x57
- 7x57 R
- 7x64
- 7 mm Rem. Mag.
- 30 M1 Carbine
- 30-30 Win
- 30-06 Springfield
- 300 Blackout
- 300 Win. Mag.
- 303 British
- 308 Win
- 7,5x54 French
- 7,5x55 Swiss
- 7,62x39
- 7,62x54 R
- 7,65x53 Argentine
- 7,92x33 Kurz
- 8x50 R Lebel
- 8x56 RS Mannlicher
- 8x57
- 8x60 Mauser
- 9,3x62
- 375 H&H Mag.
- 45-70 Gov.
Pistol and revolver brass
Twenty calibres, from 6,35 to 45 ACP, with the 7,62 Nagant, the 7,63 Mauser, the 7,62 Tokarev and the 30 Luger in between.
Blank brass
Blank brass with a Boxer primer, with the case length in the reference itself. There are long and short ones.
PRVI Partizan at the shop
The full catalogue, with formats and availability.
Firearms and ammunition subject to regulatory control are purchased and processed under the applicable rules through an authorised gun dealer.
The shop is available in Spanish.