I've enjoyed hunting for years but in all of that time I've spent in the woods, my hunting has actually been pretty limited: Mostly it's been southeastern whitetail deer & hogs at moderate ranges. Because of this, a wide range of projectiles work pretty well for my hunting simply because I'm not putting excessive demands or expectations on my bullets. In the last few years, most of the deer I've put in the freezer arrived there via 140~150gr Hornady Interlocks and Nosler Partitions at less than 200 meters. But over the last five years, I've had various rifles setup to shoot bullets from eleven different manufacturers. Recently, I've been hunting with Nosler, Hornady, Norma, RWS & Woodleigh depending on the rifle & caliber.
After years of lurking on the periphery reading about other hunter's trips to Africa, I joined this site 15 months ago mainly because I had some questions I wanted to ask & this group seemed to have a lot of experience & opinions worth evaluating. One of the goals I've set for myself is to focus less on the hunting I'm doing now & think more about the hunting I hope to do in the future. I decided to do a poll just to see (hopefully somewhat definitively) what the favorite bullet manufacturers were that work well on African plains game (which includes many species larger than my current hunting encounters). I excluded dangerous game from this question because that topic seemed to be better addressed as a separate poll maybe focused on specific bullets or solids instead of manufacturers. I sent
Jerome a request to expand the poll choices & he was kind enough to double it to 20. I based the poll mainly on the bullets I could find available on American & European reloading sites.
Assuming that most people are like me and might shoot different bullets for various caliber & bullet weight combinations, I gave everyone five choices since "Plains Game" is a pretty wide topic. Any information you would like to share about specific bullet model, caliber & game taken would of course be appreciated. While some shooters may have a wide variety of ammo at home (like me), it is my guess that this gets narrowed down to a smaller selection of favorites when you actually go on a hunting trip. I hope that this poll reflects what that preferred choice usually is.
