Thread: What bullets do you recommend.

Originally Posted by 300LRH

I've had great success with Barnes and Nosler Accubonds with body shots, mostly out of 375 H&H and 308 back in Africa. For me success was measured by the "killing"power as well as minimising the amount of blood trauma resulting in less meat that needed additional work or ultimately ended up in the bin. You do sometimes hit bone which results in some spoil, but I hate working meat with blood trauma everywhere. What is your go to hunting bullet in NZ for game and any experience you guys would like to share, especially hunting thick bush with a 6.5mm to .308?

Hi 300

Pretty much most of what we got used to using back home in SA is not that suitable here in NZ, and not that necessary either to be fair.
The bullets we use back home are often too hard for the game here in NZ.

Things to consider here (for me anyway) thin skinned game so need a bullet that opens up quickly especially on fallow. One spot i hunt has mainly reds but has the odd fallow too so its worth being good to go for both, another is the bush being very thick so i prefer to just sacrifice a bit of meat if the tradeoff is a deer that drops on the spot because a deer that runs 100-200m will be very hard to find, especially in thick bush and when its raining so i prefer less meat over no meat.


In short, for all round hunting say 0 to 300m in a 308 or 6.5 of some sort and all the other similar cartridges i would just go to the Hornady interlock or sierra game king (sierra getting expensive though)
For longer ranges just use something like ELD-M