I didn't like the PMC, a guy at the hunting camp 10 years ago gave me some to try and they didn't impress me. Just seem'd a little cheap on quality.
The Seller and Bellot was a little bit better, more like a handload. Which when you read the description is what they are selling it as.
I just bought 6 boxes of Federal Fusion ammo for my 270 Winchester Short Mag, I paid $14 a box and was just happy to get it. I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't any good.
I believe that it came with Speer Hot Core bullets - which is a bonded bullet.
Speer is very well know for their bullets, as most great authors of the 50's and 60's used their bullets to harvest all types of game..
Here is what Chuck Hawks has to say about them.
All calibers use bullets made by Federal's proprietary "molecular-fused" jacket technology. In this "electrochemicall" process, to quote the Fusion literature, "the jacket is applied to the core one molecule at a time to totally eliminate separation and assure mass integrity." The core is a pressure-formed lead alloy and the jacket is pure copper. A skived tip promotes initial expansion. Fusion bullets feature a perfect center of gravity and high ballistic coefficients (BC).
If I have correctly interpreted the process, the bullet is basically made by copper plating a (vitamin capsule shaped) pressure formed lead alloy core slug. Then the plated core is pressure formed into the correct bullet size and shape and the tip skived. Presto, a Fusion bullet.
The Fusion web site (
www.fusionammo.com) is larded with techno-speak mumbo-jumbo (but does use an innovative little flame cursor). This approach is often the modern advertising equivalent of the old adage, "If you can't sell the product, wrap it in baloney and sell the baloney."
In this instance, however, that is not the case. The Fusion bullet, in our testing, does offer excellent accuracy and dramatic but controlled expansion. These bullets are expressly optimized for hunting CXP2 game (basically deer), but based on their controlled expansion they probably have a wider range of application, although this has not yet been proven in the field. Strip away the advertising hype and what is left is an excellent product, perfectly able to stand on its own merits.
The result was that the Fusion ammo produced the smallest average group size (0.895") of all the loads tried. This is a very accurate rifle that produced excellent results with every load, and many sub-MOA groups, just as the name implies. But when push came to shove it was the Fusion load that came out on top. Every rifle is an individual and your results may vary, but I regard this as an impressive start for the new brand.
The bottom line is that is you hunt with factory loaded ammunition and have not yet tried Fusion cartridges in your rifle, you should. It may not replace the brand you're using now, but then again it might!
That is the one that I would go with, after that it would be a toss up between Federal Premium's and Winchester Supreme and Remington Core Locts'..
