Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game The grain of bullet that strikes the fancy?

Since I only hunt whitetails premium bullets have never been a necessity for the medium bores I shoot.

243. 100gr. Hornady or Remington CL
257 Roberts 120 gr Remington CL Have used the 117gr Hornady
270 Win. 130gr Rem CL
308 150gr Win PP lately
30-30 150 gr speer
223 55gr Hotnady (never shot a deer with this one.)
.50 Swaged .490 hornady RB with patch
Basically I reload for economy so I shoot the above because I have a lot of them and as long as they shoot decent in my rifle there I'm good to go. The deer and ground hogs don't seem to care for them though.

.223 - 55gr anything for yotes
243 - 100gr partitions
270 win - 150gr partitions
30-06 - 180gr partitions

as soon as the grand kids get big enough, the 243 and 06' go to them.

all i need is the 270 win.

.223 - partition and 53gr vmax
.30-06 - 180, 220 partition
.300 wsm - 155 scenar, 180 Etip
.454 Rossi '92 - 300gr xtp

.222-223 40 grain Vmax
.22-250 or Swift 50 gr.Vmax or Blitzking
.243 85 gr. Serria HPBT
.25-06 100 grain Serria or 75 gr. Vmax
.270 140 grain Serria HPBT
.7mm-08 what ever
.7mm Rem. Mag. 168 Berger
.7mm Wea. 160 gr. Nosler Part. or Serria HPBT
.30-06 150 gr. Horn. BT.
.300 Win. 165 gr. Nosler Acc.,Part. or 165 gr. Serria HPBT
.300 Win. 155 grain Scenar HPBT
.340 Wea. 225 gr. Acc. or Part.
.375 H & H. 260 Acc. or 300 gr.Part.

22 hornet 45 gr TSX
223/556 55 gr TSX/62 gr TBBC
22-250 220 Swift 52 gr A-Maxes/55 gr NBT
243 85 gr TSX
25-06 AI 100 gr TTSX
6.5 Swede 140 gr NPT
270 150 gr NPT
7x57 175 gr Grand Slam
30-30 wcf 170 gr NPT
300 Sav 150 gr NPT
308W/7.62x51mm 130 gr TTSX
300 mags 180 gr Cutting Edge 200 gr NPT/SAF 208 gr A-Max
303 British 215 gr Woodleigh
338 mags 225 gr TTSX/250 gr SAF
358 Win 200 gr TSX/TTSX
9.3x62mm 320 gr Woodleigh
375 mags 270 gr TSX
38-55 wcf 265 gr Cast Performance
416 Taylor 400 gr NPT
450 Bushmaster 250 gr Barnes X
458 Win 500 gr Woodleigh PP
45-70 Shiloh 520 gr Government bullet
45-120 C-Sharps 550 gr Paper Patch bullet
505 Gibbs 600 gr Woodleigh PP
500 Nitro 570 gr Barnes TSX/Solid
50-110 wcf 525 gr Cast Performance
577 Nitro 750 gr Barnes TSX/Solid

Gunner

gunner, you sure like to TSX..I never fired one..I can see their use in larger rifles, but why in the Hornet and .223??? I forgot my Hornet when I made my list..but I usually use either 35 grain Vmax or 46 grain Rem. HP.. You certainly have a fine list of rifles there..

LOL, I loaded a crap load of the 45 gr TSX's for my Hornet to deer hunt with em, then found out I gotta have at least 55 grs to be legal in Okleehoma.

223/5.56 TSX's are fer two legged critters in various AR's.

And Thanks for the compliment, same to ya.

Gunner

Gunner, Never thought of TSX's for two legged critters...!!!Will have to try em in my AR...Thanks..Keep killing those crows and other stuff...

10-4 WCH, will do.

Gunner

Kawi: 165 grain 30/06.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I feel the same as you.

Whatever the caliber, I usually don't go below about the mid-point of offerings or to the very heaviest projectile available, tho I've experimented with several and use a couple of the latter.

The 225 and 250 gr loads in the .338, the 165 and 180 in the .30's, 117/120 in .25-06, 100 gr. in .243, 150 in .270, 140 in .260 have all been very good to me.

Here You Go:
-30-30 170 gr
-35 Whelen 310 gr woodleigh
-358 Norma 225 gr Tsx (no longer have this rifle)
-9.3x74Rmm 286 norma factory
-375 H&H 235 gr TSX (recent fav for me, I know its very light weight)

.338 Lapua 300 grain Scenar or Berger VLD!

9.3x62- 258gr RWS H-Mantel, 286gr Swift A-Frame, and 286gr Woodleigh FMJ
Between those three bullets, there is nothing in the world you can't hunt.

7mm-08 140gr I just love it.

40gr LR.

Yes that would find dirt in a rock patti..GRIN

Generally a mid weight for caliber.

Likewise, mid to upper weight in each caliber.