Most of the premium .338 bullets are so very good that you really can't go wrong with any of them. You'll need to experiment with Nosler Partitions, Speer Trophy Bonded Bear Claws, Swift A-Frame, North Fork, etc. and see which bullet your rifle likes best.

For whatever set of reasons, my .338 Win. Mag. prefers 210 gr. and 250 gr. Nosler Partitions to anything else. I currently have it sighted in with 210 gr. Partitions for an upcoming elk hunt here in Oregon, as well as for my annual Texas deer and hog hunt.

Next year, when I head to Tanzania, it'll be loaded with 250 gr. Partitions. If I had the choice of only one bullet for use in my rifle, it would be the 250 gr. Nosler Partition.

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Alf,
Perhaps you should go shoot about 30 head of game with them before you make judgment...I have and I did not like the results at all on the smaller stuff, it was like shooting them with a round ball in a muzzle loader, it killed them but they made a lot of tracks and didn't bleed much..The recovered bullets I got are all very smooth and round and apparantly didn't do much internal damage..Now I don't intend to list and describe each incident but I am firmly convenced that I am correct as is Terry B...

I reported this fact to Swift and they informed me at the time that they were coming out with a bullet called the Sirroco to solve this problem, apparantly they had quite a few people that had the same experience...

Ray,

I've killed close to four dozen animals with Swift A-Frames, from dassies and jackals to wildebeest and Cape buffalo.

Tissue destruction on the small stuff was dramatic to say the least, and quite good on gemsbok, blue wildebeest, eland, and Cape buffalo.

They are my favorite bullet.

George

I have used all three on plainsgame and I like the 250 Nosler the best by a long shot and I have not had them blow the front end off, probably because the 338 WM is not a super velocity caliber and is prone to preserve bullet integrity more than the faster 338s....

I tried the Swifts bullets and they all expand perfectly and the same everytime, but the problem I have with them is they don't kill very fast...I think it is because they ball into a very smooth round ball with a swolen stump and the internal damage is less than with the ragged cutting edges of the Noslers and some other brands..I have had smaller game like Fallow deer, Impala, Springbok, etc. run over a 100 yards with heart/lung shots and no blood trail with both the 225 gr. and 250 gr. Swifts. I just was not impressed with them...The Swifts do seem to work fine on big animals like Cape Buffalo...

Based on my experiences with them all, I would recommend the Noslers, they always work..

I have settled on the 210 Nosler, 250 Nosler and 300 gr. Woodleigh PPs in my 338 Win.....the 300s are center at 100, the 250s are 2" high, and the 210 are exactly 3"s high, that makes it easy for me......