Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Workhorse bullets - in each line, which ones shine?

Did you ever run a Barnes X over the Juenke?

Old school here I guess, & definitely not the experience of MD/John. The guy that showed me the performance of Partitions 43 years ago now likes Barnes. But he still has a fondness for the Noslers. I do to.

My first year in the Rockies I saw Mulies taken with; 243, 270, 7mag, 308, 30-06, & 300 mag. Classic wounds, caliber in, quarter to 50 cent diameter exits. Many likewise examples since.

Maybe boomer bullets that don't travel to a thousand the best. But they shine otherwise.

10at6,

As Sitka stated earlier, running monolthics over a Juenke machine does not work.

What the machine measures is, essentially, uniform (or not) jacket thickness. It uses ultrasound to determine how well the bullet is balanced, and since monolithics don't have cores, there's nothing to react to the ultrasound.

For 7mm, the 120gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, the 139gr and 154gr Hornady Interlock and the 120gr/140gr Barnes TTSX.

For the 30-06, the 165gr Hornady Interlock or the 165/168gr TTSX.

For the .243, the 95gr Nosler Ballistic Tip.

And as always, any Partition or Accubond.

Grew up shooting nothing but Hornady Interlock, in several different calibers. I still shoot a lot of interlocks, but shoot Nosler products in my magnum rifles.

Outstanding responses fellas!

Of the 49 animals killed in the last 12 years:

140 gr Nos Bal Tip for 7mmRM
120 gr Nos Bal Tip for 6.5-06
115 gr Nos Bal Tip for 25-06
95 gr Nos Bal Tip for 6mmBR

Have only killed a few animals with them, but no complaints:
162 gr Horn SST for 7mmRM
140 gr Nos Accubond for 280AI

Whatever is on the shelf will take whatever I hunt for that particular caliber.

Mine is one that you can shoot a coupla boxed of every time you are out at the range... and then use the exact same load over 90% of the time to anchor game out in the field.

The $0.22/pop Speer Grand Slams do that for me, at least in .264/140 gr. and .277/150 gr., as long as you keep'em in their performance envelope.




GR

154 gr Hornady Interlock in a 7x57mm.

In .30-06 Sierra Game King 165gr. and in .35 Whelen Hornady Inter-lok 200gr. RN have given outstanding performance on whitetails.

.308 caliber ( for my 30-30, 308 Win, and 30-06 rifles)

Winchester Power Points: 180 grain
Speer flatbase Hot-Cor: 165, 180, 200 grain spitzers, 170 grain flatnose
Remington round nose Core-Lokts: 170, 180 grain (true Core-lokts, no longer made)


for woodchucks and my 222 Rem and 22-250: Sierra .224". 50 grain BlitzKings



I am sure there are others, but don't have results to offer.

AussieGunWriter sums up my experience as well….whatever is on the shelf.

I appreciate what you did there - nice draft horse collars to go with that nice old Ruger 7x57.

Have found the Nosler Accubond just as effective in my hunting loads as the NP but considerably more accurate.

I reload over 65 cartridges. I own a lot of bullets. I have boiled it down to:

Nosler ballistic tip for big game

Hornady Vmax for small game.

Speer Gold Dot for self defense.

When I used to hunt with my 7x57, it used the 154 Interlock.
25-06: 120gr Hornady HP
270 Win: 150gr Hornady Interlock [once with a 160gr NP on elk. Worked!]
30-06: 180gr Hornady Interlock, in any 30-06 I owned.

[quote=Mule Deer]I have used the following bullets on big game:

Barnes—
Tipped Triple Shock
Triple Shock
Long-Range X (LRX)
X-Bullet
XLC

Berger Hunting VLD

Fail Safe—
Both Winchester & Combined Technology

Federal—
Blue Box
Deep Shok
Red Box
Trophy Bonded Tip

Hornady—
ELD-X
GMX
InterBond
Spire Point, both Interlock & pre-Interlock
SST

Norma Oryx

North Fork Soft Point

Nosler—
AccuBond
AccuBond Long Range
Ballistic Tip
E-Tip
Partition (both lathe-turned and extruded)
Partition Gold
Solid Base

Remington—
Core-Lokt (original and post-1990)
Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded

Sierra—
GameKing

Speer—
Hot-Cor
Grand Slam (original and improved)

Swift—
A-Frame
Scirocco
Scirocco II

Trophy Bonded Bear Claw—both the original and Federal versions

Winchester—
Power Point
Silvertip
XP3

They have all worked fine, as long as the bullets were used within their design parameters.


I'm so jealous right now I'm trembling! lol Life is good aint it?

Model 70 Featherweight 7X57 gets 160 grain Partitions; Interarms Mark X 270 Win gets 130 grain Partitions; Rem. 700 CDL 35 Whelen gets 250 grain Partitions. Gee, I guess I like Partitions.

I have only hunted Alaska for big game, so big bears are almost always a possibility. For me it was Nosler Partitions until the late 80's when I switched to the Barnes X bullet line. As long as I am hunting Alaska I will be using the Barnes TTSX and LRX bullets in a .338 Winny, 30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor in my magazine fed bolt guns. My lever guns use the bonded Kodiak bullet from the former Alaska Bullet Works and I am turning a bunch of 225 grain .358 Partitions into a flat nosed bullet for my Mod. 94 Big Bore in .356 Win. that my wife will be carrying for moose and berry picking.

Prior to the Covid and libtard Biden crap I laid in a supply of components and I doubt I will need to buy another hunting bullet, primer or piece of brass. But, the 5.56 AR, 9mm Banshee and several 9mm, 357, .38, .45 ACP and .44mag. handguns require more ammo to stay proficient with for me. So I usually buy what's on sale for the range.