Bergers or Hornady

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Bergers!

 

[ducky]

I shoot what I can buy right now. However, Berger while giving dramatic kills and being accurate on game has never impressed me when it comes time butcher said animal. Hornady SST while accurate is another bullet that I don't like shooting at game, again too much blood shot meat. I'm migrating more and more towards monolithic bullets (TTSX, LRX, AND GMX) for hunting.

Sierra, Hornady, and Nosler have all been favorites of mine for target and varmint shooting. Mainly because they shoot great and come 100 to a box, except Nosler but SPS blems have been very good to me. Berger bullets were great on paper with the 105 and 115 grain bullets I played with in a .243 Win.

Other than bulk Rem Core-lok and Win PP, and having a dismal time until I sorted by weight. I really haven't had too difficult of a time finding a bullet that'll shoot well enough for my purposes from any of the major bullet companies. I haven't tried the boutique brands yet such as Hammer, Lehigh, Maker, CEB, and etc. All of which are high on my list when I run out of my stockpile to shoot.

 

[Pointman]

IMHO, it's the rifle that makes that decision. In my modest "arsenal", I have rifles that prefer Berger, Hornaday, and Sierra. None performed with Speer for whatever reason. I do not hunt, the old beat-up soldier is no longer able, however; give me a shooting bench and a good rest, I can still get it done. My old custom 25-26 loves Sierra 9- grain boat tails and refuses to perform with anything else. Again, whatever the weapon prefers is my "go-to" projectile. The downside, several partial boxes of "unwanted" projectiles.

 

[Greyfox]

90 % of my shooting is with the 6.5x47L and the 6.5x284N. For PRS/competition, where I go through large volume, I use the 140ELD-M for my hand-loads, although I have had exceptional long range accuracy with the Berger 130gr OTM and will use these for high precision demands. For LRH I like the Berger 140HVLD
which gives near identical performance to my first choice, the 142gr JLK/VLD, which are no longer available and my original large supply is dwindling. Of late, the 156 EOL is proving to be quite effective as well.

 

[jfolanddvm]

For factory ammo, Hornady. For reloads:

243 win sierra
6 cm hornady
6.5 cm hornady
270 wsm berger
7-08 berger
7 wsm berger
28 nosler berger
30-06 - berger
300 wsm berger
30 nosler berger
325 wsm sierra
33 nosler hammers
375 h&h barnes

 

[Ner-do-well]

I am new here and trying to get my posts up so I can send a PM. what does everyone prefer, Berger or Hornady? I personally prefer Berger for both comp and hunting.

Berger without a doubt. Loaded up sone hornady 162 gr SST for my elk hunt last year. They were very accurate, however I knocked three different elk down (flat on the ground) all three got up and left. No blood, hair, or bone. I looked until the following day for each with no success. I will punch paper with hornady, but Berger or Nosler are my go to hunting bullets.

 

[mobenzowner]

I've had good luck with some ornaHdy's, but across the board,the Bergers have been more accurate for me.

 

[Teri Anne]

I am new here and trying to get my posts up so I can send a PM. what does everyone prefer, Berger or Hornady? I personally prefer Berger for both comp and hunting.

I actually use both plus Sierra and Noslers. My favorite is the Nosler Partition, 165 gr for the 308 and 30-06, 180gr for the 300WM. All are superbly accurate after you fine tune your rifle to the load. Anything you hit in the right placewith any of those bullets is going down for the count.

 

[vancewalker007]

I am new here and trying to get my posts up so I can send a PM. what does everyone prefer, Berger or Hornady? I personally prefer Berger for both comp and hunting.

I had good luck out of both, but overall the Bergers have been more accurate especially at longer ranges. The ELDx 175gr 7mm was very accurate in my fathers LRM but not so much in my 7mm LRM. We used that rifle to make the longest shot I have personally witnessed on a Coues deer. It actually went diagonally across the deer and exited the far shoulder tip. Frankly I have not used anything but Bergers to take game for 4 years. About 4 years ago I did shoot an elk with my old 300 WSM using a 180gr Nosler Accubond. My wife and I just used my 6.5 PRC, shooting the Berger 156gr EOL to take 18 head of plains game in Africa. All were 1 shot kills except for 2 poorly placed (user error) shots on a Lechwe and an Impala, then 2 good shots on an Eland which was 500 yards. The Lechwe and the Impala were disabled just need another shot to finish both due to shots that were too low. Point being, with the bullet going into the right spot all the others basically dropped with-in a few yards and some were DRT. Every Coues buck I have shot or my family has shot in recent memory have all been with Bergers and they all end DRT. My son is shooting the 7mm 180gr VLD Hunting in his LRM and his previous rifle, a 300 WSM, he was shooting the Berger 190gr VLD. Both have dropped elk and Coues deer at short and long ranges. I attribute the great results we have had from the consistent accuracy these bullets provide allowing shots to be placed on the vitals 99% of the time.

 

[B.C.]

I've had by far the most reliable results in accuracy and hunting performance from Berger.

However, in Canada right now it's getting down to load what you can get on components unless your sitting on a stockpile.

 

[Reelamin]

With only two choices Hornady for hunting. What ever one shoots best for targets.

 

[jessej]

Very rarely do you hear of a rifle that won't shoot Berger's.

 

[Hugnot]

I use mostly Hornady bullets like VMax & ELDM types only because they cost less than Berger's. I only hunt (shoot) rodents and have a preference for .204 40gr VMax, .224 53 VMax, .224 75 ELDM, .243 87 VMax, .243 95 Berger VLD, .264 120 ELDM & .308 178 ELDM. The .30 is a .300 WM and it is used to comply with existing prevention of safe queen policies. Should Hornady make a real pointy (hi BC & low FF) .243 95 ELDM, I would shoot that. I like the plastic tips, thinking that they expand (blow-up) better. The Berger .243 95 VLD when launched at 3,300 plus fps is amazing.

 

[L.Sherm]

Recently opened a new lot of 6.5 147 ELDMs and measured the overall length and set calipers to zero. After measuring 100 bullets 93 were within 0.001

Overall length means nothing consistent ogive on the bullet means everything.