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308 125 gr AccuBond at 3150 mv?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1546428" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>"So you experienced the heavier bullets having the deer cover some ground vs Bang Flop with 125 gr....so it is either velocity or expansion."</p><p></p><p>"Would you recommend the 125 gr Accu-Bond at 3200 fps or a 125 gr Ballistic Tip at 3000 fps?"</p><p></p><p>I have no experience with the 125 Accubond. The only Accubond I have experience with is the 130 gr in my 264 Win Mag leaving the muzzle at an average of 3350 fps. This bullet reacts the same at 25 yards as it does a touch over 500 yards in my experience. It flies like the BT as for accuracy. It starts to open up like the BT does in the 2700 fps velocity range and does about the same damage but holds together like the Partition and will exit with a quarter size hole and deer are DRT. I have only ever been able to recover one of these bullets with over 2 dozen deer shot. I was put into the left front edge of a bucks shoulder at 111 yards as it almost faced me with a slight left shoulder angel toward me. Bullet smashed the scapula and penetrated chest, gut, and was found against the smashed ball joint in the right ham. Recovered weight was 87 grs. and was a textbook mushroom.</p><p></p><p>I can't explain it but for some reason UNLESS you hit CNS some bullets just seem to drop deer in their tracks while others will do the same damage or even worse and a deer will run off a ways. In my experience as well as my hunting buddies the 7mm Rem. Mag. no matter which bullet we used, deer would run between 50 & 100 yards unless CNS was hit. They would slosh on the inside there was so much damage but they still ran 75% of the time. There was one bullet that we used that had a better track record 50% of DRT shots and that was the Hornady 154 Interlock or SST.</p><p>Bottom line, if you want to drop a deer in it's tracks no matter what center fire caliber or bullet used wait for a broad side shot and place the bullet 1/3 of the way down from it's back in the center of the front shoulder. That will get lungs and spine. I place the cross hairs on the front leg and raise them to the center of the shoulder with most of my deer hunting rifles that I sight in POI 3" high at 100 yards. Depending on the caliber this will put me in that shoulder out to 250 to 375 yards which usually kills DRT. For longer ranges I have to dial the scope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1546428, member: 10178"] "So you experienced the heavier bullets having the deer cover some ground vs Bang Flop with 125 gr....so it is either velocity or expansion." "Would you recommend the 125 gr Accu-Bond at 3200 fps or a 125 gr Ballistic Tip at 3000 fps?" I have no experience with the 125 Accubond. The only Accubond I have experience with is the 130 gr in my 264 Win Mag leaving the muzzle at an average of 3350 fps. This bullet reacts the same at 25 yards as it does a touch over 500 yards in my experience. It flies like the BT as for accuracy. It starts to open up like the BT does in the 2700 fps velocity range and does about the same damage but holds together like the Partition and will exit with a quarter size hole and deer are DRT. I have only ever been able to recover one of these bullets with over 2 dozen deer shot. I was put into the left front edge of a bucks shoulder at 111 yards as it almost faced me with a slight left shoulder angel toward me. Bullet smashed the scapula and penetrated chest, gut, and was found against the smashed ball joint in the right ham. Recovered weight was 87 grs. and was a textbook mushroom. I can't explain it but for some reason UNLESS you hit CNS some bullets just seem to drop deer in their tracks while others will do the same damage or even worse and a deer will run off a ways. In my experience as well as my hunting buddies the 7mm Rem. Mag. no matter which bullet we used, deer would run between 50 & 100 yards unless CNS was hit. They would slosh on the inside there was so much damage but they still ran 75% of the time. There was one bullet that we used that had a better track record 50% of DRT shots and that was the Hornady 154 Interlock or SST. Bottom line, if you want to drop a deer in it's tracks no matter what center fire caliber or bullet used wait for a broad side shot and place the bullet 1/3 of the way down from it's back in the center of the front shoulder. That will get lungs and spine. I place the cross hairs on the front leg and raise them to the center of the shoulder with most of my deer hunting rifles that I sight in POI 3" high at 100 yards. Depending on the caliber this will put me in that shoulder out to 250 to 375 yards which usually kills DRT. For longer ranges I have to dial the scope. [/QUOTE]
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