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Nosler balistic tip=lightning strike!
Bob
Bob
I like the Winchester Silver Tips. I just like them cause they look cool. Ive never hunted really big game, like moose or caribou only whitetails though.
Until the brew ha ha with A-Square (which turned out to be bogus, but still the company has never been the same since), I fell in love with the Dead Tough Soft Points. Not exactly a pretty bullet, in fact, in .30-06 terms, they looked wierd, seeing a full soft point in a caliber with so many pointed tips available. But it did the job of knocking deer on there rears faster than anything else I had used prior to trying them.
Barnes X-Bullets are good, but for whitetail hunting, are usually overkill in the shock/power department, but they get my second ranking for the sheer power of knockdown.
Everything else has been plain just doing it's job...but that's what a bullet is supposed to do, right?
Barnes X-Bullets are good, but for whitetail hunting, are usually overkill in the shock/power department, but they get my second ranking for the sheer power of knockdown.
Everything else has been plain just doing it's job...but that's what a bullet is supposed to do, right?
You really can't kill 'em "more dead".
Bob
Bob
I like Sierra, both Game King and Pro Hunter for hunting. I use Sierra Match King's for varmit shooting. I have always had good accuracy with Sierra's in all my bolt action rifles.
For Elk hunting, I use Nosler Partition's in my 8mm Mag. I give up a little accuracy for better expansion control on larger game with the Nosler's.
For Elk hunting, I use Nosler Partition's in my 8mm Mag. I give up a little accuracy for better expansion control on larger game with the Nosler's.
7MM-08 REM 139 GR SST...Hornady...31 bucks for a box of 20...
Swift Sirocco. A tough bullet with a great ballistic coefficient
A few years back Alaska F&G recommendations for a minimum 'bear gun' was either a 12ga with slugs or a 30.06 with 180gr Nosler Partitions. It was interesting that they were specific about the bullet, but it makes sense.
The newer Barnes also look attractive as on paper they would be more accurate, not having as complicated of a construction.
The newer Barnes also look attractive as on paper they would be more accurate, not having as complicated of a construction.
Another vote for Nosler Partitions....
For handguns Hornady XTP is hard to beat over H110 in a 44 Magnum.
Do you have to have a license to hunt paper Down Under?
Yep.
Licence has to be endorsed for target rimfire, and target centrefire.
Other endorsements I have are recreational hunting/vermin control rimfire and centrefire.
If Police find a recreational hunter at a rifle range (unless a member of a hunting club on a registered range shoot) it's possibly $10k, 2 years in jail, forfeit firearms.
Licence has to be endorsed for target rimfire, and target centrefire.
Other endorsements I have are recreational hunting/vermin control rimfire and centrefire.
If Police find a recreational hunter at a rifle range (unless a member of a hunting club on a registered range shoot) it's possibly $10k, 2 years in jail, forfeit firearms.
Barnes, Swift, some moly-coated - various brands, Nosler and sometimes Hornady, Speer.
I second this. Or third it. The V-Max bullets and the similar Nosler Ballistic Tips are the most accurate bullets I've ever shot.
That paper doesn't stand a chance at my house either.
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