For deer at 300 or less I now just buy the Winchester Deer Season XP load at about $17 a box and available just about anywhere. It’s a solid-base bullet so 300 sounds like a sensible range and the darn things kill deer like lightning and have been accurate in every rifle I’ve tried or seen them tried in.
My current deer rifle shoots it into 3/4” groups all day long, giving me great confidence out to 300 yards, which coincidentally happens to be the absolute max range I could expect on my main deer hunting property.
I simply can’t load better for less money, and when factoring time into the equation, it’s not even close.
