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Thinking about seasons past and preparing for this season, I started tallying bullets for some reason. There are no right or wrong answers - no best bullet questions. I'm just curious as to what everyone has used in the past. Rifle bullets only...
After evaluating my list, I don't think I've ever killed a deer with a Nosler Partition. I've hunted with them, I just don't remember shooting a deer with one.
My list includes:
Barnes TSX and TTSX
Hornady InterLock, SST and V-Max
Nosler Ballistic Tip and Solid Base
Remington Core-Lokt
Sierra GameKing and Pro-Hunter
Speer Hot-Cor, DeepCurl and TBBC
Swift Scirocco
Winchester Power Points, Ballistic Silver Tip(Nosler) and Fail Safe
I'm sure I left something out?
Which bullets are on your list?
I enjoy handguns and I really like shotguns,...but I love rifles!
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shotgun rifled slugs Rem Win Fed also fed sabot type slugs.
Rem core lokt and bronze point
Sierra game king
Win power point as well as silver tip and combined tech bullets
nosler ballistic tip as well as partitions
Hornaday sst as well as interbond also the interlock sp
Barnes X bullet
speer bt sp
I am sure I have left some out as who knows some of the bullets used in factory ammo. I reload and shoot factory ammo. all bullets I tried worked well on deer never had a deer go very far. my opinion is they all work well as long as you put the bullet where it belongs.
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shotgun rifled slugs Rem Win Fed also fed sabot type slugs.
Rem core lokt and bronze point
Sierra game king
Win power point as well as silver tip and combined tech bullets
nosler ballistic tip as well as partitions
Hornaday sst as well as interbond also the interlock sp
Barnes X bullet
speer bt sp
I am sure I have left some out as who knows some of the bullets used in factory ammo. I reload and shoot factory ammo. all bullets I tried worked well on deer never had a deer go very far. my opinion is they all work well as long as you put the bullet where it belongs.
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A number of different shotgun slugs
Barnes TTSX
Barnes TSX
Nosler Partition
Remington Corelokt
I am going to try a bunch of different 6mm bullets this year, also hope to try out Nosler ballistic tips out of my saum.
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Off the top of my head:
Partitions
Accubonds
Ballistic Tips
Grand Slam (old and new style)
Speer BTSP
hot cor
gameking
Interbond
SST
Interlock
Corelokt
Winchester failsafe
powerpoint
TSX
Spirepoint
XTP
Speer round SP
pure cast
Lots of other generic factory loads when I was younger
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What I can remember:
Partition
Accubond
TTSX
Game kings
Ballistic tip
Trophy bonded bear claw (old style)
Core lokt
Swift SI
Power points
Shotgun slugs
I am sure I am missing some.
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IIRC...  Sierra Speer hot core Hornady Nosler Partition Bitterroots TBBC Accubond NBT nosler solid base PowerPoint Core lok Think that's it.No doubt more with the Partition and Bitterroots in various calibers than anything else.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Barnes X, TSX, TTSX
Hornady InterLock, XTP
Norma Oryx
Nosler Accubond, Solid Base, Ballistic Tip, Partition
Remington Core-Lokt and Bonded Core-Lokt Ultra
Sierra GameKing
Speer Hot-Cor, Gold Dot
Swift Scirocco
Winchester Power Points
Woodleigh
Whatever bullets were in the old Federal Red Box
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Barnes X, TSX
Nosler Accubond, Partition, Ballistic Tip. Solid Base
Swift Scirocco II
Sierra Game King, Pro Hunter
Remington Core-Lokt, Bronze Point
Winchester Power Point, Silver Tip
Berger VLD
Federal Hi-Shok or whatever they are called
Speer Hot-Cor, btsp
Hornady Interbond, Amax, SST
Herters
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Geeze!
Hard to remember all of them over fifty odd years.
Old Winchester Silvertips.
Nosler ballistic tip.
Remington CoreLokt
a few different cast bullets
Barnes early's in the copper tubing.
Remington bronze points.
A couple with Federal factory ammo.
A few with factory shotgun slugs
Barnes original Xs, XLCs, TSXs, T-EZ and TTSXs
SGKs
Hornady VMAx, AMax
One brand of premium bonded core I can't remember the name of.
.22lr Federal
I can remember a few with "odd rifles" (7.7 Jap.) and the like that were probably factory ammo of some sort, and I am always ready to try something different, so there were undoubtedly some grabbed off the shelf that I will never remember.
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Remington Core-Lokt
Winchester PP
Nosler Accubond
Barnes TSX
Federal Fusions
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Partitions
Gamekings
Power Points
Core-lokts
Whatever Federal Blue Box are.
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Adding a few after reading the lists...
Federal Fusion
Winchester Slvertip
Original Barnes X
I enjoy handguns and I really like shotguns,...but I love rifles!
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lots of the same as all above, plus No excuses MZ bullets and PR Bullets MZ bullets.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Hornady XTP
Hornady SP
Parker Ballistic Extreme
Lehigh
Barnes X
Barnes TSX
Remington Core-Lokt
Winchester Silver Tip
Winchester XP3
Nosler Ballistic Tip
Nosler Partition
Nosler Accubond
Berger VLD
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Hornady SST, Interlokt, Interbond
Nosler partition, accubond, ballistic tip, ballistic silvertip
Federal Fusion
Rem Corelokt
Barnes X
Winchester Power Point
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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Remington SP (pre Core-Lokt)
Rem. Core-Lokt
Rem. Bronze Point
Winchester Silvertip
Winchester PP
Hornady Spire Point
Hornady Interlock
Nosler Partition (machine turned jacket)
Nosler Partition
Nosler Solid Base
Nosler Ballistic Tip
Speer Spitzer (pre Hot-Cor)
Speer Hot-Cor
Peters Soft Point
Peters full metal jacket
Sierra SP (pre Game King and Prohunter)
Sierra Game King
Sierra Prohunter
Barnes TTSX
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Many of what has been mentioned and:
Various cast lead bullets from Leveractions.
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My list includes:
Remington core-lockt
Hornady Interlock
Winchester Power point
Hornady XPT (revolver/muzzle loader)
Federal SP (blue box, 30-30)
Nosler Partition
Nosler Ballistic tip
Federal Fusion
Jury is still out on what I like the best.. I will say no complaints with the Nosler Partition, but I may try the 165gr BT this year in my -06.
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I am going to try a bunch of different 6mm bullets this year, also hope to try out Nosler ballistic tips out of my saum.
i'd be interested to know how the NBT's work out for you. i've read a few postive reviews on the 6mm NBT's in 95g
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