cgavason
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Pretty sure that was written by Steve Timm who was also a big fan of the 95 grain BT. He lives or lived a couple blocks away from me and I had talked to him about this many times. He had some incredible mule deer mounts in his house.One of our members sent me some very interesting information regarding the Nosler 95 Ballistic Tip. It was developed by one of Nosler's engineers who wanted something suitable for game up to elk size. The 95 BT in addition to hand loading, is offered by both Federal and Winchester as loaded ammunition.
I've got four boxes ordered (Winchester) along with four boxes of Nosler 90 gr Accubonds, hoping either of those loads shoots favorably for me.
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What’s magnum velocity? Barnes claim their 80gr vortx have a muzzle velocity of 3350fps. Assuming that’s out of a 24” barrel but that seems pretty fast to me. Hornady and federal claim 3200fps for their 80gr coppers.have you had one run with that load. i have heard that copper bullets arent that good without magnum velocity if you dont drop them dead in there tracks.
I’ve had good results with both the ballistic tip and partition with my .243When I asked on this thread- 90 gr Nosler Accubond, 95 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip (both Winchester and Federal use this bullet in their lineups) and 100 gr Partition floated up
In my experience, most kids would rather have the wizz-um than the barking brake.I asked the same question for the 243... LOTS of people love the round and its killed prolly millions of deer sized game in its time.. but i hate the round.. i bought one for my 6yr old at the time.. was good for training him and he did kill with it but there was only 2 ways it went... either they dropped on the spot or they ran with no blood trails... hes now 9 and is shooting a braked 6.5 well... if he could handle it he would be shooting my 300wsm
On the ones that ran. What bullets were you using? Did you get a past through?but there was only 2 ways it went... either they dropped on the spot or they ran with no blood trails...
On the ones that ran. What bullets were you using? Did you get a past through?
In the battle of cheap useful 243 ammo, Hornady Whitetail is best, Core-lokts, then blue box Federal Power-Shoks to get pass throughs.