first is a Hornaday 385 gr Great Plains - great! dropped every deer I shot dead in it's tracks
second is I think a PTX (red tipped) - horrible!! completely fell apart and didn't find any lead , but no exit hole musta fragmented
third is a 200 gr Precision Dead Center - shot a bunch of deer without much tracking most dead within sight of the hit
forth is a Barnes 250 gr TMZ - picture perfect!!!
I shoot the 250gr TMZ. The TC PTX shot extremely good out of my Pro Hunter at the range but it's reputation on game is why I never hunted with that bullet.
I think everyone is trying to catch up or keep up with Barnes now.
I have never used them personaly,but I have seen the recovered bullets and results. My nephew uses them all the time.Truly devastating.He recovers a lot more bullets than I do.
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I do prefer Barnes (Expander MZs/XPBs) just because i have used them for so long and they always worked. I have had a couple Spitfires fail to expand though in media. This year i used the tipped 458 SOCOM bullet and it was flawless. Massive internal damage and a nice pass through.
They have usually been a bit more accurate for me vs the Partition but thats just because i shoot more of them Ive got a nice stash of Partitions though from Wideners and shooting them into media they are outstanding performers. I hate wasting them on paper. :P
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Green Mountain 54-120
ULA Model 20 50cal
Savage MLII SS Pacnor 45
Savage MLII SS/Laminate 50
Everything taken into consideration. BC,(short and long range accuracy), and terminal performance. the barnes ML bullets IMHO are the best you can buy.the only one i have read a "few" bad reviews on are the spit fire MZ and not expanding occasionally at close range. which i feel is due to it's very small hollow point.i like the gold dots and if i lived where all of my shots were 150 yds or less the .250 gr would be all i needed.i have some 300gr gold dots i am going to try and if i can get them to group out to 200 yds, that will be the bullet i use, if not i will use a Barnes bullet to hunt and gold dots to practice with.
recovered bullets
Ive got a nice stash of Partitions though from Wideners and shooting them into media they are outstanding performers. I hate wasting them on paper. :P
