I've had great luck with Sierra and Nosler (50/50). Those Ballistic Tips are incredible on thin skinned varmints and partitions work great in most of my belted magnums. Most of my medium bores 6mm rem to 30/06 all prefer sierras. But as other have stated " if my guns are happy, I'm happy"

I loaded strictly sierra for years and had no complaints, but lately is about 50/50 with nosler. That's 30 cal. 165 and 180 gr. For the 30/30 and 243 it's hornady.
Don

depends on caliber, rifle
Barnes
Berger
with Nosler bringing up the rear

pistols
Hornady

Toss up between Nosler Partitions and Hornady XTPs... the later I use in my muzzleloader, the former in everything else


-DallanC

Doublejs wrote:

depends on caliber, rifle

I think that nails it, right there, if only as a rule of thumb.

I'm a Barnes slut when it comes to meat gathering with a CF hunting rifle...I'll build an entire rifle around a certain grain weight TSX.

For playtime with same, I like Vmax's, BT's and at least one HPBT varmit bullet in one rifle.

My AR, when I get a chance to R&D a load for it, will likely only see Vmax's though 69 grain match was magic in my other one.

Handguns it's a toss up....between XTP's and hardcast, tho' the hardcast isn't used for anything self defense.

I can like the SST's in a slug gun though just barely because it's a slug gun.

My 50 cal inline is a killing machine, with 240 XTP's and lotsa FFg.........

Barnes for all my big game. They are accurate and expand very well and always penetrate fully. For P-dogs I use Hornady V-Max. They expand like we expect, and are super accurate from this rifle.

Bergers, sierra, hornady for the varmint rifles, in that order. Noslers and Rem. Core-lokt for big game.

I really like the Sierra Game Kings and have used them alot. But recently I have been shooting alot of Hornady interbonds. Have had good results with both.

for my rifles ;75% sierra,10%barnes,10%hornady,5%nosler.For my handguns,50%speer,30%raineer,10%hornady,10%my casting!OK-so I like variety!

Favorite bullet maker? Me. Have a lot of bullet molds. Dont hunt as I'm handi caped but have murdered a lot of paper.

I load Speer bullets most of the time but I do have a few loads for Nosler partitions. Speers have always performed well and given sub-MOA accuracy.

Remington shot shell all the way .

RocketmanLCO wrote:

Favorite bullet maker? Me. Have a lot of bullet molds. Dont hunt as I'm handi caped but have murdered a lot of paper.

Welcome RocketmanLCO. Grab a beer mate, pull up a stump and sit awhile.

Good to see that you aren't too afraid to jump in with your 2c worth mate...that's what this site is all about, a friendly exchange of information, knowledge and experience.

Cheers, Vince

Cast boolits in the 480 , with my 400 grain Keith style mould ..

Jacketed rifle , Woodleigh solids or Swift AFrame softs , Noslers as well ..

Also I have lotsa moulds for the rifle as well ..

Barnes are crap these days , they have changed something , but they wont admit it ..

And he returns...But not bearing gifts...

Hi Jack...