It breaks my heart to finish my expensive Federal Premium Nosler Partition ammo ringing steel plates, but since I do not reload and I buy ammo 5 or even 10 boxes at a time from the same lot for consistency, and since after 40 years of rifle buying (and dang little selling) I have about every caliber in the safe: .223, .243, 6 mm Rem, .257 Wby, .270 Win, 7x64, 7x65R, 7 mm Rem mag, .308 Win, .300 Win, .300 Wby, .338 Win, .340 Wby, .375 H&H, .416 Rigby, .458 Lott, .470 NE (Lord, what do I forget?) I end up with a fair amount of ammo I can no longer use on my home hunting grounds (n)
Luckily I can still, for the time being, shoot this ammo on hunting trips, but to me it seems that the writing is on the wall (apparently the European Commission decided in August 2019 to move for a 100% ban in all Europe of lead-containing ammo and fishing weights; how long for the antis to jump on this bandwagon here in the US?), so, I do not restock on anything but lead free ammo :whistle:
And since I am quite happy with the TSX and TTSX performance, and Barnes offers factory ammo, and Weatherby offers TTSX in their factory ammo, it was easy for me to become a Barnes customer... (y)
Truth be told, if it was not for the lead-free thing, I would likely continue to be a 100% Nosler Partition guy, with the lone exception of A Frame (which is a bonded partition anyway) on buff, and Hornady solids & new bonded DGX in my .470 double because the Hornady ammo groups so well with them and because I am happy with the new bonded DGX
