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Over the years what bullet have you found to drop em in there tracks the best?


Over the years ive harvested deer with a number of different bullets from Remington core lock's, federal gamekings to hand loaded A-max's. All work no dout and get the job done. After all, Bullets do a great job at killing. its what they do.

Anyway I wanted to shead some (+) light on the winchester powermax ammo as I think its a great bang for the $ and worth looking at if you dont like spending $40+ on a box of hunting ammo.

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Every deer we have taken over the years with this bullet stopped dead in its tracks. not once have had to fallow the blood trail when using it. Call it fluke but regardless its not a bad bullet to have with you this season.


This is this years buck. Harvested yesterday. Deer once again dropped right were he was standing.
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What bullet is your old reliable ?
 
For me it is the WFN and LFN series of bullets designed by LBT, everything from Buffalo and moose down to varmints, in alot of different calibers.
 
Depends
For close up in yer face killing at 500 yards or less the Nosler Partition works well.
For longer distance shots at 500 to 1500 yards either the Sierra 300 gr Matchking in my 338LAI or a 208 Amax from the 300 Win.
For real long shots the 750 gr Amax out of my 50BMG
 
If you're hunting animals that are smallish, soft and fast; and want them to hit the ground fast; use a bullet that is small, soft and fast.

If you're hunting animals that are real big, hard and slow; hit 'em real hard with something big, hard and slow.

For everything in between, use something in between.

Beyond that, there really isn't much to know.:p
 
Hornady sst is wicked. I would upload a pic but it might scare the purists here.
 
I'm a relaoder, but if I have one 30.06 cartridge that I go to after reloading, it would be the cheap 180grain power point Winchesters. I get MOA with them at 100 yards. I've used them for moose, elk, and they drop deer like a fly swatter drops flies.
 
As long as they are not the first X bullets that came out they all seem to work. I like boatails most of the time and for my 45-70 the 350 grain Hornady bullets are the cats meow.
 
nozler partions, acubonds,scirrocos, interbonds tsx or gmx in fast calibres. hornady il in slower moving rounds. they all seem to work.
 
Jordan Smith said:
I've found that lots of bullets will kill stuff, but I have the most confidence in the TSX/TTSX when things get serious.
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Well put, everything I've shot game with has been reliable except Speer Hotcor and Nosler Ballistic tips. However, I choose TSXs for all my hunting loads now as they are always superb, and like you said, I'm confident in them. Just push them fast enough, I've found, mine didn't like 2,000fps impact velocities, the performance became less consistent there despite the Barnes videos of low velocity expansion. On one animal I'd see textbook expansion and the next very little, shot quite a few head of game culling with that reduced load. So for my light .375 H&H load, I dropped down to the 235gr TSX from a 300gr and brought the velocity to 2,800fps from 2,000, problem solved and big holes again.
 
thebaron said:
In my .30-06 I load Nosler BT 150gr.
In my .44 Mag (90% of my deer hunting) I use Hornady XTP 240gr in front of 23gr of W296.
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I had a 150 gr BT from my 308 disintegrate on impact with a mulie and made a mess, absolute mess in the body.

It was a perfect double lung shot, but fragments ripped the stomach to shreds. I was so disappointed.
 
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