Most accurate hunting bullet?

Well put my name on em, I'll see you in four months at the show! ;)

You've got a deal !!

Surprising, I have 3 pre-64's here and they all go under an inch with TSX's. A 63 year old fwt 270 barrel will chase an inch hard at 200 yards. But you are right, all rifles have their own personality. Two of the three love TSX's and Hornady's but hate Noslers, go figure.

I do seat them up to the lands and not the silly 50 thou off stuff Barnes preaches. I have never found that randomly trying different powder / primer / case combos makes much difference with a rifle. Use an appropriate powder, seat with the bullet jump it likes and you're done.[/QUOTE]

I've tried different seating depths with any that I could and in some it seemed to help.
One rifle in particular, a 6.5x55 has a beautiful barrel and is a tackdriver with anything but a TSX and believe it or not it loved the Barnes X but would spit the same weight TSX all over the place.... frustrating !
I don't give up easily and have been a handloader since the early 1960s so I think I know what I'm doing, but I have to say chasing the TSX has been a very expensive hobby especially when other brands can turn in impressive results with very little effort.... but I'm not gonna quit trying them. :)
 
Johnn Peterson said:
Works for me:).

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Nice shooting!
One more bad ass rife too!
In a lot of ways I like the post 64 just fine...Great rifle!
If you had a pre 64 in 458 that would just hurt my feelings!:D
 
I've used the Hornady Interlock at close range from the 308 (165gr), and the 30-30 (170gr), with excellent results all dropped within a few feet most were bang flop.
Also used a 338WM with a Nosler Ballistic tip I think that one was 200gr, and loaded to better than 2900fps. That moose went about a hundred yards.
All three (the 30-30 is a FP) of those bullet styles have been very accurate

I think we're back to it being more important where they are hit.
 
I tried the Swift Scirocco's in the .300s. They shot well at moderate ranges in rifles that shot everything else well, which didn't prove much of anything. One thing that I did notice is that the variation in weight was all over the place, and since I was after an extreme range hunting load I didn't pursue that any farther. Although there's always the chance that I got the worst batches of bullets that they ever made, I also don't feel any pressing need to buy a lot of expensive bullets to find out.

The A-Frames are a different deal altogether. I'd don't demand match accuracy out of them, just that they kill the hell out of big things. MOA seems to within easy reach, something that always seems to be a struggle with Nosler Partitions.
 
Must have a finicky barrel in the rifle I use them in. The bullets I expected to do well did poorly, was actually a frustrating ordeal to say the least,5 different bullets( any VARIOUS powder charges) wouldn't go MOA, then the Scirocco's finally did what I wanted.
 
Has anybody else had success with the Swift bullets?
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My 300RUM would do no better than 2" with Sciroccos.The groups that I posted earlier in the thread were shot with that rifle,so it obviously isn't the rifle.Copper fouling was also extreme with the Sciroccos.
 
X-fan said:
Nice shooting!
One more bad ass rife too!
In a lot of ways I like the post 64 just fine...Great rifle!
If you had a pre 64 in 458 that would just hurt my feelings!:D
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Thanks:). For a cannon like that and with full house loads it does shoot well. I've posted these pictures in another thread and if you liked the 458 WM, you'd love this one. When I picked up my Schultz & Larsen in 308 NM, I gave this to my buddy. It's a 300WM and if I remember correctly, by the serial number it was made in late '64 or early '65. 'Things' were a little tight financially for my friend at that time and he really wanted to join me the next season on a Moose hunt. I've had a couple of rifles given to me so I thought it was time to 'reciprocate in kind'. I visited in Terrace with him recently, he still has the rifle with no intention of ever getting rid of it:).

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Jordan Smith said:
With Sierra/Hornady/Speer etc, yes, with Barnes, no. Barnes are a different animal. I've done a LOT of testing in several different hunting rifles, and best accuracy is almost always at least 0.050" off the lands, and sometimes significantly more (farthest from the lands that I've experienced yet is 0.130"). I would seat a batch at 0.010" off the lands, then another batch at 0.050" and another at 0.100" off. At least that will give you an idea of where to focus your experimentation efforts.
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Last summer I started loading 120 g TTSX for my Sako 75 in .260.
Lots of people said load to .050" off the lands.

Including Stubble who shoots alot at the club I belong to.
And I have seen some of his elk racks too.;);)

As expected I could not load to .050" and still fit the mag in the Sako.
I called Barnes.
Their teck told me to load to a minimum of .050" and that good results can be experienced all the way to .150" off the lands.
 
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With all this talk about accuracy with hunting bullets I find it strange that guys can't get the TSX to shoot in this rifle or the Nosler Partition to shoot in that rifle?

Over the last 20 years or so every bullet I have developed a load for in dozens of rifles has shot 1-1/4" groups or better at 100 yards. In every case I couldn't achieve this accuracy the rifle was defective.

There are proven combinations for ever cartridge.
Start with what has been proven to work first.

A few examples are:
280Rem RL-19
300Win RL-22
340Wby IMR 7828
338Rum RL25
375H&H RL-15
416Rem RL-15

The bullet is just one part of the accuracy recipe.
 
stubblejumper said:
My 300RUM would do no better than 2" with Sciroccos.The groups that I posted earlier in the thread were shot with that rifle,so it obviously isn't the rifle.Copper fouling was also extreme with the Sciroccos.
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I think we're seeing a trend here.
I had a Rem VLS in 243 that would shoot most bullets into cloverleafs. The 90 gr. Sciroccos were the only ones I tried that were all over the place. I never did buy them in another caliber after that episode.

Nosler B-Tips, SST's and TSX/TTSX have been the most consistently accurate for me.
 
joe-nwt said:
That's like asking what kind of lure will work best for a given fish in a given lake!:) Might not work so well in the next lake.
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Uh-huh...what he said ^^^.

Also, most accurate for what? If talking .22 CF rounds for varmints, then it is kind of whatever groups best/most consistent wins. If talking big game loads then I'll take the 1.25" groups from a partition/Trophy Bonded/Accubond/etc over a .45" group out of a Ballistic Tip or Sierra Gameking anyday. Accuracy/groups mean little if the bullet is not up to the challenge.
 
Seawood said:
Uh-huh...what he said ^^^.

Also, most accurate for what? If talking .22 CF rounds for varmints, then it is kind of whatever groups best/most consistent wins. If talking big game loads then I'll take the 1.25" groups from a partition/Trophy Bonded/Accubond/etc over a .45" group out of a Ballistic Tip or Sierra Gameking anyday. Accuracy/groups mean little if the bullet is not up to the challenge.
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With what's available in even the more 'run of the mill' or lower end hunting bullets, all are very easily capable of killing an animal. Some perhaps a little better than others, but all can easily do the job. With that in mind, trying and testing hunting grade bullets, the best accuracy possible in decent quality hunting rifles is what I've gone for. As I've shown on post # 20, the accuracy and knock down results on game is why Sierra GameKings have been one of my 'go to' bullets.

Fairly recently I've started changing over to Barnes TSX and TTSX in an attempt to minimize meat loss caused by lead fragmentation of the lead core bullets I've been using. As/post # 26, with a little effort I'm getting the accuracy I want with Barnes.

It's not too likely I'll run into any of Africas Big Five but with the 458 WM using the Hornady 500gr RN, it should be up to the task if it did happen. And, in post # 40, I'm getting the accuracy as well.

And in 22 CF, I have an old custom Winchester High Wall in 219 Donaldson Wasp. Here again, I've got the best of both worlds. The devastating effect of a good Varmint bullet, and the accuracy using the 50gr V-MAX.

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For the most part I've had excellent accuracy & reliability in all my hunting guns with Horns Interlocks & Rem Coreloks!
The only one I can't say that for was Horn 162SPBT in a 280, for some reason my gun just didn't care for them :confused:
 
From my son in law and for the period of roughly a year I had the loan of a custom 375 H&H based on a Sako action. On one of my 'shopping trips' I picked up a good selecion of bullets to 'play' with. All I ever did with it is punch paper but one of the bullets that gave me the best accuracy, apparently turned out to be a real dog on game. That was the Hornady 300gr RN IB. :redface:It did well on paper though.
 
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