Oddly, most of the several Hornady centerfire ammo boxings I've tried across 223 and 7mm-08 didn't print as well as some of the cheaper cartridges. Surprisingly I've had the most consistent results from Fiocchi cartridges that use Hornady bullets in them. For instance across 2 rifles Hornadys 75gr HPBT brass cased match ammo prints exceptionally well so I use that for target shooting. But for Varmint hunting I use Fiocchi 50gr V-max because they print more consistently then the Hornadys 55 vmax offering and a lot better than the 53gr Superperformance. My 7mm-08 Tikka shoots Fiocchi 139gr interlock boat tails MOA but Hornadys whitetail with 139gr interlocks spire points are 1.5-2 MOA and the 139gr SST Superperformance is even worse. Meanwhile run of the mill 140 CoreLocts shoot MOA, sometimes half MOA in this rifle. Honestly I don't mind spending cash for quality but I'm just trying shorten my learning curve with someone else's experience. If I come across a bargain that's only a perk. For deer hunting where I'm going to spend a lot of time and effort to make A shot, it doesn't make sense trying to save fifty cents on the bullet. I'm just hoping not to make three or four hundred mile round trips to the range and run $300 of ammo through the rifle to find that one bullet. Ultimately it's my choice and fault for being so damn picky because a 2 MOA round at under 200yds is still a dead deer.