Favorite .257 bullet

I couldn't explain it either. Chalk it up to the 1 in a million instance where one just went bad. It is what it is and I'd like to try the lighter versions in my 308 eventually
As for Barnes tsx and ttsx I've seen more than enough bullets not live up to marketing or expectations in 30cal and under to have an opinion that I don't want to use them
 
Chinchaga that sounds alot closer to the other bullets I had tried. Not on game however. Never used the matrix on game either. I didn't manage to get a good load tuned to my rifle before I ran low on bullets
 
Buckmastr said:
That isn’t very good performance. How were they recovered given the assumed pencil like non expansion. Tumbled? We’re these the X, TSX or TTSX?
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Well they have driving bands so they're not X. The bottom one has a colossal hollow point so it was clearly a TTSX. Top one appears to be a TSX, judging by what the nose looks like, the flat base, and the extra driving bands.

It's not that hard if you take a few seconds to look.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Well they have driving bands so they're not X. The bottom one has a colossal hollow point so it was clearly a TTSX. Top one appears to be a TSX, judging by what the nose looks like, the flat base, and the extra driving bands.

It's not that hard if you take a few seconds to look.
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Thanks for the lesson
 
If you would leave the marketing department once in a while and walk down the hall to the tech department, lessons wouldn't be necessary... but I get it, engineers are pretty dry compared to salesmen. Long reign the Herb Tarlek of the projectile world.
 
hoytcanon said:
If you would leave the marketing department once in a while and walk down the hall to the tech department, lessons wouldn't be necessary... but I get it, engineers are pretty dry compared to salesmen. Long reign the Herb Tarlek of the projectile world.
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Another lesson.
Forgot where the ignore button is?
 
hoytcanon said:
If you would leave the marketing department once in a while and walk down the hall to the tech department, lessons wouldn't be necessary... but I get it, engineers are pretty dry compared to salesmen. Long reign the Herb Tarlek of the projectile world.
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Here's what we think of most of the engineers where I work .....



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My goal is to use the 100 gr NBT's in my 250 Savage, 110 gr AB's in my 250 AI and 115 gr NBT's in the 257 Roberts...as long as I can find good loads for these particular rifles with these bullets. Have a good supply of all on hand for the load development now.
I know the 250 likes the 100 gr Hornady factory ammo too, and the AI shoots the Winchester factory 100 gr ammo sub-MOA, so always a fall back.
 
BlackRam said:
My goal is to use the 100 gr NBT's in my 250 Savage, 110 gr AB's in my 250 AI and 115 gr NBT's in the 257 Roberts...as long as I can find good loads for these particular rifles with these bullets. Have a good supply of all on hand for the load development now.
I know the 250 likes the 100 gr Hornady factory ammo too, and the AI shoots the Winchester factory 100 gr ammo sub-MOA, so always a fall back.
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What twist is your 250 Savage? The older ones are slow twist, and have issues with 100 gr and up bullets, in my experience. - dan
 
iron cat said:
I loaded Hornady 120 grain HPBT's for a fella fir years for his 25-06 back in the 80's and 90's .
He killed everything with them from sntelope to elk

I was at first a bit suspect about using them on animals , so I phoned Hornady and asked .
I can't remember which of the Hornady's I talked to but he told me that the that particular bullet was made specifically with elk in mind!.
In my son's 25's we load 115 and 120 grain Barnes.
Cat
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Hornady discontinued the 120 HP, unfortunately. My favourite for big game
 
Gunnutz said:
Hornady discontinued the 120 HP, unfortunately. My favourite for big game
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I still have several hundred of the 120 HP’s they are super killers on big game and for me always complete penetration, they are also insanely accurate. They should have never been discontinued.
 
Hornady seemed to kill off alot of popular good basic bullets to push the sleeker more arrow dynamic bullets. I guess chasing the long range trend is more lucrative then the core hunting crowd
 
bunny said:
I still have several hundred of the 120 HP’s they are super killers on big game and for me always complete penetration, they are also insanely accurate. They should have never been discontinued.
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I wanted to use those in my 257R, but the rifle would not shoot them at all.
 
bunny said:
I still have several hundred of the 120 HP’s they are super killers on big game and for me always complete penetration, they are also insanely accurate. They should have never been discontinued.
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Anytime you want to get rid of some......��

My Husqvarna 25/06 likes them a lot
 
SuperCub said:
I wanted to use those in my 257R, but the rifle would not shoot them at all.
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I had three .257 Roberts, none of them would shoot the 120's... my M77 Mark II and Ruger No.1-A were good with the 115 NBT's, but for some reason my No.1-RSI would only shoot 100 SP's accurately... shot a nice WT buck with that one... then promptly bailed out of quarter bores altogether.
 
hoytcanon said:
I had three .257 Roberts, none of them would shoot the 120's... my M77 Mark II and Ruger No.1-A were good with the 115 NBT's, but for some reason my No.1-RSI would only shoot 100 SP's accurately... shot a nice WT buck with that one... then promptly bailed out of quarter bores altogether.
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Ever use the 100gr NBTs?
 
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