I use the 52 grain HPBT match bullets for a 223, and 125 grain tnt for a 300 savage. The HPBT are on par with Sierra, good thing too as they were about 10¢ cheaper. The 125 grain is ok. I mean it’s a lever action, how great can they be? When I was younger, maybe early 80s, it seemed to me that Hornady was the bottom of the barrel. Their packaged bullets looked like seconds do today. Now the make really good stuff and Speer I feel is at the bottom. I hope Speer turns things around, I still have a place in my heart for them.