speer bullets

kumate

Tried this on general discussion without much input.Looking to come up with a new elk load for my 300 and was wondering if anyone here shoots Speer bullets. good bad or ugly.

kumate

Does anyone remember back some years ago , whether or not Speer made a 129gr. RN bullet for the .264" dia. 6.5 mm caliber?? What was is designated ?

kumate

I bought some Speer bullets, there was one defective bullet in the box. I sent Speer an email and they asked me for the lot number and then sent me a whole new box of bullets. That is above and beyond customer service.

tsr1965

Best Elk bullet for your 300 is the 180 grain Barnes TTSX...just my opinion based on experience. Speer never had a great following, from what I have seen.

Best

EDIT 1

When compared to the conventional bonded core, and Partition bullets, the TSX, and TTSX are competitively priced. They are a premium bullet.

quote:not sold on the barnes bullets, overpriced in my opinion.

You, obviously don't have any experience with them. They are very seldom recovered. If they are, the majority of the time, it is after extreme penetration, measured in feet, not inches...as in taking a quartering away shot, like an archer. When they are recovered, they most likely will retain in the high 90's% of their weight. Once again, this is from normal hunting experience, with a 30-06, and 300 Win Mag, on deer and Elk, at normal hunting ranges, up to 500 yards.


As suggested, only your rifle can tell you what it likes best. Some rifles don't like some bullets, and some rifles like everything.

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EDIT 2

quote:Not to hijack the thread BUT.
tsr, you obviously don't remember the numerous dismal failure to expand with some of the earlier Barnes bullets.
"Once burned, always wary" was a frequent comment of my youth. At this point, I've NEVER had a failure to perform from Nosler Partition or Grand Slam.

Yes, I do remember those, and that the early Barnes Quality Control, was not exactly the state of the art, at the time. That was in the late 80's/early 90's. We are nearly, TWO DECADES removed from that, and things have improved vastly over at Barnes.

I can tell you that even in a little "AR-15, using a RRA 16" Varmint upper the 62 grain TTSX bullet will shoot dime sized groups at 200 yards. I can also tell you, that when smacking a whitetail buck on the shoulder at the same distance, that after breaking the shoulder, it blew a hole into his heart/lungs, going in, the size of a quarter, and exited just behind the offside leg, the same diameter as it entered the chest.

I do understaned your "once burned" sensativity. I have been there with both Winchester, and Remington ammunition, having a buck standing there, and the rifle go click on a live round.

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RobOz

180 grain Grand Slam will kill any elk that walks Gods green earth.

kumate

taken 7 elk and 1 moose with Hornady 150's in my 270 win. not sold on the barnes bullets, overpriced in my opinion. looking for something new to try out in the 300

Mobuck

No one can tell you what's best for your specific rifle. I would suggest the Speer Grand Slam which is a very good bullet for bigger game. It provides a bigger frontal area upon expansion than most of the other premium bullets while still maintaining enough shank to drive it through the animal.

charliemeyer007

The old hot core's did fine in my 7mm R mag.

kumate

you are right I have no experience with x bullets, just asking about speer is all, also I do not spend time recovering bullets just butchering game. shot placement is still the most critical factor in hunting game, not the brand name of rifle or ammo

Ray B

By far the best Conventional .308" bullet for big game is the Speer Mag Tip. Its performance is nearly on a par with the Grand Slam but at half the price, so you can shoot the same bullet for practice and sighting that you use on the hunt.

Mobuck

Not to hijack the thread BUT.
tsr, you obviously don't remember the numerous dismal failure to expand with some of the earlier Barnes bullets.
"Once burned, always wary" was a frequent comment of my youth. At this point, I've NEVER had a failure to perform from Nosler Partition or Grand Slam.

md1634

Barnes TTSX all the way. I shot a zebra at 340 yards with a 300 win mag.
It was a going away quartering shot. Zebra ran 70 or so yards. The bullet hit a rib and went through the shoulder bones. Came to rest under the zebra's skin. Probably went through 2 1/2 feet of zebra. Only lost 1 "petal" The outfitter had a jar full of Barnes (likes them a lot); the vast majority mushroomed perfectly

MG1890

I shoot Speer bullets. And Sierra, Hornady, and bulk pack Remington. I have always found that when properly placed they all drop game reliably. Use what the rifle likes, put the bullet where it belongs.