30-06 which bullet is best?

[Cossack]

Being a hadloader I shoot only premuim bullets (Barnes TSX) for my hunt loads. About any 150-160 grain bullet will do for deer. Much of it depends on what your gun likes (some will shoot more accurately than others in your gun--regardless how they shot in someone elses gun...of the same make and model, even). The distances at which you shoot will also matter. Polly tipped varmint bullets have great ballistic coefficients for distant hits but tend to blow up when the connect on something up close, for exaple. So try different brands and different bullets (most of the big co's offer premium bullets along with conventional ones) until you find the accuracy and terminal performance you want. And if you do want to experiment with premiums, CCI and Federal offers Barnes X, and Winchester has the Fail Safe which is comperable. They may cost more but 18 one-shot kills keep me thinking it's worth it to send the very best.