The Best Hunting Bullet Bang for your buck!

Bullet placement is everything and a neither a premium priced bullet,nor a magnum rifle will compensate for poor shooting.I've had excellent results on game animals over the yrs with all of the standard Speer,Hornady,Sierra,and Nosler bullets . I have found the Nosler Ballistic Tips to be a bit tender,but they are very accurate and do penetrate to get the job done-kind of begs the old question "At what point in the death of the animal did the bullet fail?"

BTW Mr savagefan,several yrs ago I met a woman at a party in Arizona who told me that she was a slut.I replied that I was actually hoping to meet a skank for a change. I'm still wondering if there really is a difference between the two.
 
Best bang for my buck? TSX or TTSX. Ridiculously easy to work up a load for, so I get load develpoment done with fewer bullets, less powder and primers and less of my time spent on it.

Then, I only shoot a few per season on game and the occqasional check of zero. I use cheaper bullets for practice at the range.
 
Hornady Interlock has always done well for me. I tend to shoot heavy bullets for caliber, and I find with the softer make up of the cheaper bullets, alot of energy is imparted to the game as the bullet expands, but I have the length to penetrate. A 175 gr. IL from my 7mm will do alot of killing, and meat damage is minimal. They have always shot well in all the rifles I've tried them in as well. Good luck with your selection, Eric
 
Sierra GameKing. They are crazy cheap, very accurate and do the job. They are like the old faithful, you can always count on them.

Ivo
 
I've been loading the TSX's for the last couple of years and they've done the job, yet at a cost. A lot has to do with how hot you're loading them of course. I was all excited to try to get my 270 Wby pumping out the 130 gr TSX as hot as I could possibly get it and in the end I ended up with such a devastating trauma to the deer I took that year that I lost the whole front half to bloodshot. The entry took out a rib, a good 2-3 inches behind the leading shoulder and the leading shoulder STILL was bloodshot like you wouldn't believe.

This year I'm either going to stick with my TSX's and lose a couple hundred fps off the load or I've got some 150 gr Partitions and some 140 gr Accubonds to play with. On that note, season is coming up here very shortly so I'd better get off my arse and get to work.
 
I like Nosler ballistic tips for deer - always have. GameKings in my 7mm RM have consistently flattened moose, though now I've switched to Accubonds. Sometimes even I draw the line on a bullet choice based on price alone, e.g. Partitions for my .45-70, any Bear Claw in larger sizes, Swift and so on. I'm not a cheapskate when it comes to bullets, but I won't spend $1.50 and upwards for ANY bullet simply because I like to shoot a lot. Sierra makes a pile of good quality BT's for deer-sized stuff and the price is good, but I have a soft spot for Nosler stuff.
 
I will agree that the MRX's are a bit expensive, but they are a very special bullet for very rare situations.

TSX/TTSX I don't find bad at 60-75 cents a bullet. Considering the cost of hunting, what's another 5 bucks to handload a box of premium over bulk bullets?
 
In order to out-penetrate a NP in fact, the bullet has to expand less, like the Barnes X bullets are noted for.
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Not true,if the bullet starts out at the same weight as the partition,expands to exactly the same diameter,but retains more weight,it will out penetrate the partition.Considering that the partition often sheds the front core and with it 30% to 40% of it's mass,there are now several bullets on the market that retain more weight.At lower velocities the tsx will expand less than the partition,but at higher velocities it can easily expand to present just as much frontal area.The Mrx expands as much as the Partition at velocities a bit lower than the tsx.The Bearclaw does the same.

Take a look at the tsx recovered from an elk below,how many partitions provide more frontal area?From my personal experiences,very few if any.

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Below are three bullets recovered from elk.

One is a 180gr ballistic tip fired from a 300ultramag,the second is a 200gr partition,fired from an 8mmremmag,and the third is a 180gr tsx fired from a 300 ultramag.Even though the partition was larger in it's unfired state,it didn't provide more frontal area than the other two.As far as retained weight is concerned,it retained the least,despite the lowest impact velocity.

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personally, i'm a big fan of the tsx(i've had more one shot kills with my old 7mm rem and 300wby) but i think a lot has to do with confidence, too. if you go out in the field thinking " i'm shooting cheap bullets, i'm gonna wind up tracking a wounded deer all day", thats probably whats going to happen due to negative thinking which can lead to poor shot placement.but if you have confidence in yourself and your bullets, i think you'll have more one shot kills. go out there thinking "i'm shooting the best bullet for the job, this deer is gonna drop in it's tracks!!", and it probably will.
just my personal thoughts on the subject
 
My guns like Rem Core loks I buy them in bulk , cheap, effective, work great on moose, deer,varmints in my 300 win mag 180 gr, 150 gr in 30-06, 150 gr in my 30-30, 240 gr in my .444 and 55 gr in my .223
 
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