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HUNTING Best choice of bullet for your hunting rifle With the hunting season for 2018 over, many shots are planning for next year's hunting season.  By Jan-Lodewyk Serfontein Sales Clerk: Hinterland Arms, Kroonstad and Hunting Expert T he 2018 hunting season is a thing of the past and hunters are already planning the next year's hunt. The Hornady ELD-range of bullets is available in our market, which brings a number of questions about the 42 SENWES SCENARIO | SUMMER 2018 different types of bullets and the advan- tages and disadvantages of each one. To make it even more difficult, Nosler's new RDF-bullets are now also available in South Africa. The questions regarding new and better bullets could keep us occupied for days. Let's discuss a few bullet characteristics, which may help to make next year's hunt even better than this year's excursions. A large variety of good bullets are available in South Africa. Some are man- ufactured in South Africa, but most of them are imported. Since we use bullets for different purposes, a wide spectrum of bullets is available. Let's look at a few applications and the best bullet for each application. Most bullets are used for target shoot- ing. Due to the application of these bul- lets, manufacturers have to design and 44