I have never really considered the Nosler Partition a real expensive bullet, but Nosler does use Child Psychology on it customers by packaging them 50 to a box to ease price or sticker shock when buying them .
Agree with bea on this.Even at full retail a box of 165 Partitions costs less than filling a pickup with a tank of gas.
Been a few years since I was doing extensive 30/06 shooting,but in the last rifle I was using a load of 59-H4350 with both the 165 Sierra and 165 Nosler Partitions,and shooting to 500-600 yards.
At 100 yards you couldn't tell which was which in terms of grouping;but at 500-600 the Sierra showed slightly better grouping;and I mean "slightly", on average.Either would land easily in elk vitals.
Point being, it is SO easy to use the cheaper bullet for practice with full confidence in switching to the Partition for hunting.When it comes to elk hunting the choice between the two is easy for me.
