Nosler Vs Hornady - Let the arguement begin!

I really hate to agree with you (especially on a public forum) but I think you have a good point. I have been a Nosler Partition man for over ten years now but my hunting partner is a hornady man. What is supposed to happen to a $23.00 per hundred bullet exceeding 3000fps is they turn themselves inside out when hitting deer and moose between 50 and 400 yards. I can honestly tell you that we have retrieved numerous hornady plain jane spire points out of deer and moose for a long time now, these were all loaded hot by me for the .264 win mag 100gr. and 129gr., .378wby 270gr., and I am going to try these plain jane cheap o's in my 7mm STW next hunting season. I'm not talking about two guy's with tags. In the last few years our children have reached hunting age and between our two family's at least six deer and a moose go down with these bullets every year. My son turned 14 a couple years back and I set him up with a .264. I saw in that yearly hogdon magazine they put out that if you use hogdon 4895 you can actually download quite a good variety of cartridges to 60% of max and not risk hang fires. No other powder company offers that info. that I am aware of. Anyways I am going a little of topic here, but what I am trying to say is everyone seems to think that a kid starting out has to shoot a .243 or some other coyote gun for their first kill on big game. I downloaded my son's .264 with 100gr. cheap o hornady's and his first buck went down freehand at 150 yds. we retrieved the bullet (low velocity) and it was perfect. The point is that I can't say that I have ever witnessed a cheap o hornady fail on deer or moose, and If anyone out there has , I would love to here their story and see pics of the bullet. I have to be honest and tell you that I have seen sierra gamekings (.378wby) and nosler ballistic tips (.264 win) turn inside out upon entering the animal and I won't buy them unless I'm shootin paper or coyotes.
 
I shoot a lot of both.

Both companies make a very good product. The Nosler product are "prettier" cosmetically and come in nicer packages. The Hornady bullets are built for shooters and are as accurate as any bullet on the market. The only advantage that Nosler has over the Hornady bullets is with the Partition, a bullet that Hornady has no direct competition to.
 
There is no question in my mind that the Nosler is a top notch bullet, it's never let me down. But, I'm sorry the Hornady has never failed me either.
I've used them in the 30-30 to take both deer, and moose. And in many other cartridges for the same, plus bear. They work, and are a bargain compared to the Nosler. I'll not be switching soon.
 
Nosler 2XX the price

The Hornady's are a fine bullet, and for hunting I would not hesitate to use them. It's the paper punchers that keep nosler busy, the ballistic tips are very accurate in hunting rifles and varmint rifles. When NOSLER went to the 50 pieces per box they nearly doubled their price, so now I use berger for the range.
 
A box (100 bullets) of hornady interbonds are 55-60$ (.308 180gr), compare that to a box of accubonds at 30$ for 50 bullets.... seems like they are almost the same price nowadays.
 
Hornady VMAX are cheaper, more available, and generally work better in my guns than the corresponding ballistic tips. It's my belief that hornady makes the finest varmint bullets available, hands down.

For big game bullets, I'm fond of the Partition. For smaller cartridges, I'll stick with Barnes, I think. And a do have a few boxes of Interbonds that I haven't gotten around to using yet
 
It depends on what you want your bullet to do, what cartridge you are shooting, and what animals you hunt...

If you use premium, expensive bullets for hunting, and cheap bullets for practice, you are only going to be spending an extra $20-$50 per year..
 
Hornady makes good varmint bullets, and the price of their interlocks are attractive for off season practice

they have tried to build premium bullets to compete with Nosler, like the SST (Ballistic tip wannabe) and the Interbond (Accubond wannabe). In my experiences, most guns shoot the SST/Interbonds like crap and will shoot the Noslers well.
 
The hornady spire points were blowing apart upon impact with deer in my newphews 270 WSM, on three different deer. The core and jacket totally separating, two did not penetrate through the deer and caused a lot of meat damage on impact on all three deer.

This year I loaded A-frames for him, excellent penetration and no meat damage. So I personally will not use the Hornady in a high velocity cartridge and will pay the extra few bucks for a premium round. I had good results using partitions with my 257 wby on deer.
 
I think Hornady make an excellent, accurate bullet that works well at velocities under 3000 FPS. If you chase them hard, they will disintegrate. I have personally experienced it with my 270 on a Whitetail deer. For me, Nosler Partitions & Accubonds are the ticket at higher velocities. Regards, Eagleye.
 
Hornady vs Nosler

I would agree with eagleye 100%

But you had better give your head a shake if you think Hornady's are better than Nosler Competiton bullets for benchrest,Fclass target shooting, Hornady just does not have the quality contol as the Noslers or for me the Sierras SMK are better for paper punching.
I would say Nosler Partitions have a very long history of been a excellent bullet and killed more game over the last 35 years, on med size game up to the big bears. and Hornady will need many moons to close that gap.
 
I practice with Hornady and hunt with Nosler (now I am trying TSX).

Never use Hornady SP to hunt.

For the very few premium bullets that I go through each year the extra cost is worth it IMO. To me, it is about confidence. I also have respect to the game and want to make sure it is killed with minimal suffering.
 
I'm using noslers BT for varmit in my 22-250 and 25-05 and accubonds for big game in the 25-06, and 300WM and I'm dusting off the 7mmRM as well.

Hornady get loaded into everyting else, 303, 308, 30-30.
 
I switched my 338 over to IB probably the most accurate load run through that gun (mind you my bench technique has improved since the last batch), no on game experience yet, but if expansion is between bt and partitions I am cool.

One possible advantage is the IB's and sst are supposed to have the same flight characteristics so SST's for cheaper practice and IBs for hunting.

I have a box of 130 IB's for my 270 but I am having a lack of motivation considering how the plain seirra 130's work on this years deer. But to be honest I have not been to dissapointed by a properly match bullet by any of the big guys.

We spend alot of time figuring out what is "the best" , endless hours of debate go on here, and that is part of the fun. But if we looked at it with a sort of cost/benifit analysis we spend alot of time and money unnessesaraly splitting hairs.

Yes there are times where the best is a requirement, but always?
 
Goose25 said:
A box (100 bullets) of hornady interbonds are 55-60$ (.308 180gr), compare that to a box of accubonds at 30$ for 50 bullets.... seems like they are almost the same price nowadays.
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Maybe you should switch to the SST they are only $31.00 for a 100
 
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