Ammo prices keep climbing. Thankfully, a few manufacturers are still making reasonably priced rounds for everyday hunters chasing everyday game. The Harvest Collection is one of them.
Barnes and Sierra teamed up to create a new line of ammo aimed squarely at whitetail hunters called the Harvest Collection. While the branding sounds like something you might find in the pumpkin spice aisle, the rounds themselves are built for one thing: putting deer in the freezer. And, to be honest, the retro look is pretty slick.
This isn’t a “premium” line, and it isn’t intended to be. It’s a working-class box of bullets that gets the job done and has a price tag that doesn’t make you wince. It’s really just a matter of Barnes and Sierra dialing in a factory load that the average hunter can afford and find on shelves.
I’ve shot more than a few rounds in both .270 Win and 6.5 PRC of the new harvest collection, and it seems to me to be a totally capable lineup for close-range, thin-skinned game.
Harvest Collection Caliber Lineup and Technical Details
What the Harvest Collection Offers
Each round uses a Sierra Tipped GameKing (TGK) bullet. These are polymer-tipped boat tails with a controlled-expansion design. Translation: they shoot straight and hit hard.
Loaded with temp-stable powder and Doppler-verified ballistic coefficients, these loads are built to hold up inside 600 yards. That covers the vast majority of real-world hunting scenarios.
Barnes claims sub-MOA accuracy and backs it up with sample groupings around 0.94 inches. For factory ammo, that’s crazy respectable. For someone like me, who is by no means a competition shooter, this is a tight group, regardless.
Field Test: Missouri Whitetail Camp
I joined the Barnes and Sierra teams in Missouri to put the Harvest Collection to the test in the fall of 2024. It was one of those hunts where the deer mostly had the upper hand. Only one deer hit the ground, but it was enough to get a firsthand look at how the ammo performs on impact.
Most of us left without punching tags, but the trip gave us a solid chance to run the rounds through different rifles, in real hunting conditions, and see how they grouped and handled. Since then, several hunters from that camp have used the same loads to successfully tag game.
I even sent a few rounds toward hogs at a later hunt in Texas. They hit hard and finished the job without any fuss.
Final Thoughts
The Harvest Collection isn’t trying to be the flashiest or the fastest. It’s Barnes and Sierra meeting in the middle with something that actually matters to hunters: consistency and results.
This line isn’t going to replace your custom loads or your long-range dreams. It’s going to sit in your truck, get tossed in your pack, and get the job done when it counts.
Simple. Effective. No hype needed.
And for the record, we will be back in Missouri. Next time, the deer won’t be so lucky.
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