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300 Weatherby has Hammer bullets.

Box of 20 $179 + tax & ship. YIKES!

That sort of gets in the way of a lot of practice.

Why bother?

Holy dumbass batman! 😂....Hb

That's MSRP and their regular ammo doesn't sell for MSRP anywhere.


Of course that doesn't stop the usual Fire chit show.

i like Hammer bullets and now have plenty of these great Hammer bullets ,the bullet price is not that bad. but i will just load my own when i need some Hammer bullet cartridges. i have also learned i don`t need a 300 Weatherby mag. to kill game with or that nasty 300 Weatherby mag. recoil anymore.

Which one is it?

will be much better hunting ammo vs the Hornady Interlock sh it they have in the 300 Wby

That's what it is in a nutshell.

Why all the buzz over Hammer bullets? Looks like an old TSX.

IME, they expand better than Barnes.

A 178 Hammer out of my pre-64 FWT .358 Win sure whacked a WT last Fall. Not a Weatherby but bad enough.

I like Hammer bullets. Not cheap, but worth it.

DF

Great bullets

Expand better than a Barnes? I’ve killed a bunch of animals to include whitetails, muleys, black bear and elk, with .257. .264, .284, .308, and .338 caliber bullets in TSX and TTSX and have never had a Barnes bullet fail me, never. All were very dead. The Barnes bullets I have recovered have been textbook expansion. I’ve recovered about 10 or so. I’ve recently shot a deer and a bull elk with the hammers(absolutes in .308) and while they shoot well, I’m not sold on the terminal performance I’ve witnessed on the two animals I’ve killed. They did not perform as I expected….I will continue using the Barnes….

I think that some Barnes bullets do not expand well. I loaded some 270 loads for my son and I on a Wyoming whitetail hunt. The bullets killed the deer, so the bullets were not failures. But the bullet did very little expanding. Pencil hole in and out. The damage inside wasn’t what I’ve seen with cup and core bullets. I understand that the TTSX version is a much improved bullet for the smaller calibers.
I’m not a Barnes hater, I have some larger caliber Barnes bullets (not TTSX) and I’ll be trying them. “Maybe using a grizzly load on a Whitetail.”

I also finally came across some TTSX bullets in the smaller calibers. Too many bullets too few seasons, too few opportunities.

I try to use something different each year. But I’ve used heavy for the caliber cup and core for so long that I don’t have the experience with different bullets that some have.

What was it you saw/or didn't see that made you not like them?

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