re: Best/Favorite Hunting Bullet?

Lapua Scenar

Easy choice.

Federal Fusion

Accubonds if I can find them.

Whitetail and pigs - Hornady American Whitetail aka Interlock (my favorite true cup and core bullet)
Bigger than whitetail - Nosler Partition (the unrivaled GOAT) or because they are easier to find I’ll shoot Norma Oryx out of my 308 and it’s a stone cold killer for most anything in North America.
Primitive - I shoot Accubonds out of my .35 Whelen and it’s Thors hammer at 225 grains

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Winchester Super-X Power-Point 30-30 150 grain...

I'm a simple man and have killed a lot of game with this gun...

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I picture you in woods wearing jeans and buffalo plaid.

Norma Oryx 150 grain in 308
Barnes TTSX 70 grain in 556
Barnes Tac-TX 110 grain in 300 blk
SMK 220 grain in 300 blk for silent pig head shots at night

Just depends what I’m hunting

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What is the OB's favorite or preferred hunting bullet? Not asking for specific caliber or cartridge

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Sierra Game King “SGK” - cheap, reliable, accurate, precise, and effective

In 20 years I never lost a deer or hog.

That doesn’t mean that bullet is the best for all applications. For 223 hog hunting for example I like Barnes TTSX. For short range big fat slow bullet hunting I like Barnes XBP hollow points. Magnum high velocity loads on large animals is the domain of the Nosler Accubond.

Discontinued but my favorite pig load uses the sierra 110 grain pro hunter. I'll be using them for the foreseeable future.

Fusions are great and like mini bombs, my son killed 220 pound deer with a .243 with ease. But you have to hit bone, since they are Teflon coated or whatever it is, on a perfect heart shot you may not find blood for 100s of yards. I killed two deer one back to back and I had to find the next day and neither of them left a drop of blood until I was almost right on the deer. The deer I found the next day was only 100 yards off the field and I thought i heard it fall but since no blood u always have some doubt. I ask back at camp and everyone had a similar story with fusions.

So with fusion do a double shoulder shot. (I think my son aimed at heart shot but he had slight flinch which always caused it to be neck shot. He killed a moving deer with a neck shot at a super weird angle almost 200 yards away through heavy brush once, so the old timers told me to leave him alone as none of use would have even tried that.

If you are turkey hunting and not using TSS shell you are really really missing out