Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
200 Nosler Accubond vs. a cow elk
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="limapapa" data-source="post: 719326" data-attributes="member: 57531"><p>This is an old thread, but recent experience shows the problem still exists. I have killed about a dozen elk, bulls and cows, over the past 20 years, all but two with Nosler Partitions. One with a 7 Mag, , five with a .338, and 4 with a .300 Win Mag. Every Partition, regardless of range, caliber, or weight has penetrated fully and either was not recovered, leaving a quarter sized exit wound, or recovered under the offside hide, and weighed 58% of initial wt. No kidding, 58% each and every time, every bullet. </p><p></p><p>This year I dropped a cow broadside at 220 yds with a 200 gr AB in my .300 WinMag, chrono'd at 3000mv+-. The shot went through the right tricep muscle (or the elk equivalent), missing the front leg bone and the blade, and blew a 3" diameter hole through the ribcage, with a corresponding 3" hemispherical wound cavity back through the tricep muscle. It went on to blow the top of the heart off, and a small piece of the bullet exited out the left brisket , leaving a tiny exit hole and two drops of blood. When it blew up on the rib, it created a baseball sized round crater in bone and meat, including backwards through the muscle it had just passed through. Very surprizing to me. </p><p></p><p>A Partition would have punched a quarter sized wound through the rib, through the heart, and probably come to rest in the offside shoulder in one piece or exited in one piece. I'm not sure I like this "blowing up" on small bones such as an elk rib, although it did continue through to the heart. I suppose I can't complain, but I'm very tempted to go back to the 200gr Partition just for the certainty of complete penetration. The .300 Win Mag is now my "go to" elk rifle and will be so for the foreseeable future. Thoughts or comments on this bullet's performance?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="limapapa, post: 719326, member: 57531"] This is an old thread, but recent experience shows the problem still exists. I have killed about a dozen elk, bulls and cows, over the past 20 years, all but two with Nosler Partitions. One with a 7 Mag, , five with a .338, and 4 with a .300 Win Mag. Every Partition, regardless of range, caliber, or weight has penetrated fully and either was not recovered, leaving a quarter sized exit wound, or recovered under the offside hide, and weighed 58% of initial wt. No kidding, 58% each and every time, every bullet. This year I dropped a cow broadside at 220 yds with a 200 gr AB in my .300 WinMag, chrono'd at 3000mv+-. The shot went through the right tricep muscle (or the elk equivalent), missing the front leg bone and the blade, and blew a 3" diameter hole through the ribcage, with a corresponding 3" hemispherical wound cavity back through the tricep muscle. It went on to blow the top of the heart off, and a small piece of the bullet exited out the left brisket , leaving a tiny exit hole and two drops of blood. When it blew up on the rib, it created a baseball sized round crater in bone and meat, including backwards through the muscle it had just passed through. Very surprizing to me. A Partition would have punched a quarter sized wound through the rib, through the heart, and probably come to rest in the offside shoulder in one piece or exited in one piece. I'm not sure I like this "blowing up" on small bones such as an elk rib, although it did continue through to the heart. I suppose I can't complain, but I'm very tempted to go back to the 200gr Partition just for the certainty of complete penetration. The .300 Win Mag is now my "go to" elk rifle and will be so for the foreseeable future. Thoughts or comments on this bullet's performance? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
200 Nosler Accubond vs. a cow elk
Top