If you had to pick a bullet manufacturer, which brand would you choose? I load some Barnes and Sierra's, but if I had to pick it would be Nosler.

Local area is unleaded and has been for years. Barnes

Barnes

Nosler Sierra....

I do have a limited supply of 300 grn Barnes Originals that my 338 shoots like a laser............

Barnes

If I was rich it would be Berger.

But I'm not, so its Nosler.

Lapua.

Hanco: Indeed here on the Big Game Rifles reloading site Nosler is my go to brand, and has been for 57 years now.
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VarmintGuy

Depending on the rifle, I load Nosler mainly. Also Berger, Hornady, Sierra ,and some stuff from Barnes.

Mostly Nosler some Sierra

Nosler
Hornady
Sierra

In many of the places I looked, Partitions are more expensive than Berger hunting VLDs. Accubonds appear to be about equal. Keep in mind Bergers are boxes of 100 and Nosler are 50.

Hornady by far.

Some green boxes on the shelf with a few black ones, but red boxes dominate by an overwhelming margin.

Nosler
Hornady

Sierra, Hornady, Barnes, Nosler, and home made

Barnes.... and my own cast! memtb

I think it's silly to be stuck on any particular brand. It's just more Chevy vs Ford thinking.

Nosler Partitions for most, Woodleighs and Hawks for the odd stuff.

When something new comes out I try it. Hammer bullets is most recent one. There is a new company I am waiting for them to start shipping. It is called Hollow cavity.

With that stated I would go with Barnes if limited.

Overwhelmingly Nosler nowadays.

Partition or BBC for hunting.

After that, I like Amax, Sierra, BT for practice.

Barnes. Nothing their line wont cover and cover better. Used to be they were short on varmint or practice bullets but not any more.

Nosler

I have more Nosler Custom Comps and RDFs on-hand than any other bullet. Lapua Scenars are next. For hunting, I have more Speers than everything else combined. I've had good results from Hornady, too, and Sierra, but what I have is what I have. I wish ATK hadn't totally destroyed Speer.

For deer hunting I have more Corelokts than anything else other than 35 cal. That's all Hornady.

Nosler

Nosler, rifle

Speer, handgun

Hornady (Interlocks)

Nosler Seconds

Speer was my nostalgic favorite for decades. But I'm fed up with their pathetic attempts and stumbles, intro Deep Shocks, drop Deep Shocks, re-design Grand Slams, replace Hot Cores with Deep Curls, drop Deep Curls, bring back Hot Cores...what a joke

Barnes but I hate needing faster twist for some.

If I had to pick one, it'd be a coin flip between Nosler and Hornady. I like Nosler's variety of offerings better, but I like Hornady's pricing and 100/box availability better.

That said, in a glance at my bench, I see Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, Speer, and Barnes. I do a fair amount of load testing for my range time, try a new one every session, and I stick with two or three for each rifle, governed only by accuracy and consistency of POI. Whichever bullet that happens to be, is the one it is, and manufacturer doesn't matter to me. They all take deer and hogs well.

^^^^^^^^ Like the Accubonds in 7mm and .270 and the 7mm 120 BT, Interlocks in 6.5, .270, 7mm . Interlocks are hard to beat for the $$$$$ for deer hunting anyway.

Nosler
Barnes
Woodleigh
Hornady

Regarding rifles the Gunsmith recommended Hornady, back in the '70s. But I hunt in the Condor zone which requires 100% lead free. So I switched and tried Nosler (E-Tip), Hornady (GMX). I finally settled on Barnes TSX & TTSX.

For handguns I stick with Speer.

Hornady

Hornady occupies the most shelving space on my bench by a large margin.


Dan

I'm glad I don't have to choose 1, no one brand makes all the bullets I like.
We live in the Golden age of reloading!
If I chose in order by volume it would be,
Nosler
Berger
Hornady
Swift
Barnes
Speer

Grew up in bend Oregon so lots of Noslers. Barnes is great too.

Two notable exceptions are the excellent 87 Gr Speer hot Core for the 250-3000 and the Speer 145 gr .284 BTSP.

Nosler

Lots of Hornady and Nosler on my shelves.

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??

X2

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.

Rifle:

Nosler .25 and up.
Sierra .25 and down.


Handgun:

Whatever is available.