Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 90 vs 95 grain Nosler BT in 243 for Mulies

That's coming back down to reasonable. $42/100 instead of $64/100.

I agree!

I just bought two boxes (100 count) of Hornady 95gr SST for $62. That will feed the 243's and 6MM for a long time

Or you could just buy 100 grain Hornady interlocks for $22.49/100. Every deer you shoot will wind up just as dead given equally good placement and you won't have to feel like such a moron for spending twice as much as necessary for the same result.

Of all the money I spend on hunting every year, the cost of a box of bullets doesn't even register on the radar.

Exactly.

Bbbbut JG, with all the money saved just think of how much more time a guy can spend in the field!
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The 90g has definitely been easier for me to get to shoot accurately in my 243’s.

Yep!

OK, you got me there!

I have a picture somewhere, and it was once posted to this site, of a 90 & 95 grain next to each other that I sectioned. I’ll try and find it. The 90 is stout and just a touch shorter than the 95. Looked like same jacket thickness.

Either will work well, just use the more accurate one.

I don’t recall why I started using the 90s in my handloading. I had been using the 95 gr in factory loads in my WSSM because I was in college and found a bunch of boxes of the 95 Win CT for $12 each. Those shot well so I don’t know why I switched, but I think it had to do with the 10 twist of the WSSM and me calling Nosler and asking them. This would have been 2005 or so IIRC.

I really wouldn’t worry about which one. My sister used my WSSM and the 90 NBT on a big bodied OK buck this year and he went 20 yards. 115 yard shot. Muzzle velocity is between 3150 and 3200 fps IIRC. They just work.

Found the picture. Gray tip is the Winchester 95 CT and the purple tip is the 90 gr. NBT

Those are serious deer killers. Never found a good reason to not like them at normal ranges.

I like them too. I keep saying I will work up a decent load in 6 arc and shoot a doe or four but still haven’t done it.

I’ve used 90 and 95 BTs in my 240 weatherby, on pronghorns. In most cases, it was bang flop. Some staggered a few yards. They’re smaller and lighter boned than most deer, but I believe they’d work just fine on deer, with proper shot placement.