bullets for 25-06

[270Shooter]

Any tipped bonded bullet with a boattail in the 100-120 gr range will do you good. Accubonds, sciroccos, interbonds.

[tjgerm]

I've had really good luck with federal 100 barnes tsx

[finnman]

My wife and I combined for 3 dead deer with my .25-06 shooting Nosler 100 gr Partitions. Factory loads are 3300 fps at the muzzle. I also love the Scirroco and A-frame bullets by Swift.
Whatever you do, do not shoot Cor-lokts....

[JLS]

I would think a Barnes TSX in the 100 grain version would be VERY hard to beat.  I use the 85's in my .243 an love them.  I've killed cow elk with this setup.  These bullets provide excellent penetration, very little bloodshot, and minimal fragmenting.  I have found them to be very accurate too, use them in all of my rifles.

[Ray]

Do they make the TSX in 100 grains for .257? Last time I looked I could only find them at 115 grains. They flew real good.

[JLS]

They still show them on their website.  Conventional wisdom on the Barnes has always been that you can go down in weight because 1) the bullets are less dense and therefore longer and 2) they retain almost 100% of their original weight.

I use 185s in my 338-06 and 150s in my 30-06.

[tjgerm]

More on the barnes 100 gr tsx. I've shot this bullet for the past few years and for me there are both pros and cons. The pros are very very accurate, very little blood shot. And I have shot 2 deer and 1 black bear with them and none of the animals went more than 30 ft. Not one of these animals were even shot in the vitals 2 neck and one entry left flank exit right hind quarter. Let me add that the hind quarter exit shot had almost no bloodshot. The deer and bear I shot in the neck had no exit holes the bullet hit the spine and stopped. The exit hole on the hind quarter exit was very small but the bullet didn't hit any bones on the pass thru. The only real con with this bullet is you have to make your shot count the blood trail produced is very minimal. But this is only from my experience. I've missed a couple more animals as well but I believe that was my fault and not the bullet. I haven't shot it at long ranges either 300 yd max for me but a performer out to that range. I'd like to have a longer opportunity maybe someday.

[demontang]

The best thing is that your asking questions and trying to learn. the accubonds have never failed me yet even after some nasty bone contact they kept together. I have shot a few brands but my rifles like the accubonds over the others but its not that any of the other bullets didnt group or perform I just put my trust in noslers.