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I like Sierra's, mainly for the 243 85 grain HP, 130 grain 270's, 110 grains for the 6.8SPC, and 168 grain HP's for the 308. In the 223 and 22-250, I use mainly Hornady VMax's. I do use some Noslers for heavier bullets in the 243.

I load barnes TTSX's for all our rifles, 8 different calibers.

These days, mostly Nosler, and most of those blems and overruns from SPS. Partitions priced within a few cents each of ordinary bullets are hard to pass up.

Hornady XTPs are my choice in handguns and for ML sabot loads, but the excellent job done by a Barnes T-EZ last season might sway me in that direction.

Nosler.

If you live in a lead free zone, do game wardens check your cartridges??

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If I had to choose just one, probably Nosler.

The only problem would be my 22cal rifles. I like to use them for deer hunting. Nosler's only offerings in medium game 22cal bullets are the 60gr Partition and the 64gr BSB. I haven't been able to get decent accuracy with either. I use Hornady, Sierra, and Barnes in my 22cal rifles. I'd really hate to give up the Hornady 55 SP!

Nosler mostly but I like to try all sorts of other bullets in order to stay opened minded.

For the big and scary, I have found that Swift A-frames work well

Nosler
Barnes
Berger
Hornady
Sierra


If I had to choose it would be in that order






Trystan

Speer Hot-Cors and Sierra ProHunters are my favorite bullets. I shoot the 120gr Hot-Cors in my 25.06 and bought about 600pcs before they stopped making them so I have a good inventory built up. My daughter shoots the Sierra 120gr PH in her .260 and has had excellent results with those. I also have some 120gr and 140gr hot-cors for the .260 but haven't tried those as of yet. I do have some Nosler BT's in the cabinet but the Speer/Sierra are my favorites.

Sierra. Their bullets are still reasonably priced, perform well, and they don't mess with product lines the way all the rest of the manufacturers do.

If a toss up of a certain caliber in a certain weight bullet, I'll always opt for Sierra.

I mostly use Speer Hot-Cors and Sierra Pro-Hunters. However of late I have been playing with Hornady Interlocks.

My favorite bullets are Gnoahhh Brand. 30+ bullet molds in the drawer grant me a wide selection, as many as I want, whenever I want them, for about 1/10 the cost of "store boughts". Life is good.

Living in Oregon it's hard not to support a local family owned business, so it's Nosler for me.

Nosler for elk, Hornady Interlocks for everything deer-sized

In order:

Sierra
Hornady
Nosler

I have no brand loyalty. I try to pick the brand that has the best overall performance, accuracy, real, not advertised BC, and terminal effects, at the best price point. My favorites are the Berger hunting VLDs, but they are so danged expensive and there are many that are comparing quite favorably with them now. Lately, I've been shooting Amaxes that I bought on closeout when the ELDS came out, and they do very well, as do the ELDs. The Nosler RDFs have my eye too. From what folks are saying, about the RDFs, Nosler finally realized folks aren't going to just willingly accept advertised BCs anymore.

John

Nosler
Sierra for some.

Handguns = Speer

For years I've been a devoted Hornady fan but lately I've increasingly getting to Nosler and a bit with Barnes.

Ballistic Tips getting tougher has been a boon for Nosler if my component shelf is any indication.