Bullet selection

[ian745]

As per my other post about press bits and such and getting back in,

What’s everyone’s thoughts on Berger bullets for hunting. Also nosler partitions or accubonds, would be in 270 wsm and 338wm

 

[Eagleye]

Forget the Bergers!! They are target bullets posing as hunting ones.

The Partitions need no introduction, they just get the job done well.

However, The Accubond is making a positive reputation for itself also.

Try the 140 AB in your 270 WSM, and the 225 AB in your 338. I think
you will be impressed, both on target and on game.. Dave.

 

[209jones]

For the price a person pays for Berger, I don't see the value as a hunting bullet. They will kill stuff, no doubt, but, all I'd use them on is deer. You have a WSM and a WM, neither of those are really long range target rounds or benchrest rounds, and that is what Berger caters to, and then calls one a hunting bullet to keep the faithful happy. They build excellent bullets for gongs and paper, and varmints, even deer, but a hard quartering shot on a moose or elk where you have to do things the hard way, nope. For that price I can buy Partitions, Accubonds, A-frames, TTSX or TSX, Cutting Edge or Woodleighs.

 

[Leatherstocking]

I like the Barnes TTSX and TSX. Usually get 2 whitetails every year for past 12 years or so, so that is how much experience my suggestion is based on. Never recovered a bullet, there’s always an exit hole. Most are one shot kills, the bang-flop ones.

 

[Potashminer]

I used 150 grain Partitions in my 7x57 for deer, for about 20 years or so - maybe 20 or more deer. I used, and now my son uses the rifle, a 308 Win with 165 grain Speer HotCor - maybe 30 or more deer and a cow and then a spike elk between us with it. Both have muzzle velocity really close to 2,800 fps, as per my older Shooting Chrony - really nothing to chose between them, on game. For my 338 Win Mag, and 9.3x62, I have gone with the Accubonds - 225 grain and 250 grain respectively - mostly because I found loads for each that are nicely under 1" - often for 5 shots at 100 yards - but "0" experience with either of those bullets on game. Probably 2,800-ish fps with the 338 (RL-19 powder); more like 2,650 fps with the 9.3 (Big Game powder)