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Hornady 165 SST vs Nosler 165 BLT Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="500yd" data-source="post: 702075" data-attributes="member: 27428"><p>You're looking at the short range aspect backwards. The occasional lack of expansion of the NBT 150/165/168/180 (and other heavy, high speed, plastic tipped bullets) at short range is precisely the reason to use the lighter bullets. The lighter bullets have less mass, less energy, and lower sectional density. Consequently they decelerate more rapidly when they pass through strictly flesh, initial expansion is more rapid, they mushroom better, and tend to stay inside the body cavity instead of exiting. The 165/168 will expand even less at short range, causing more pass throughs than the 150s. Keep in mind I've only had a few of these. Not all short range shots pass through without a kill. Depends on the individual animal and other factors.</p><p></p><p>As to the long range WT performance of the .30 NBT/BST 150s, here are some photos of a 515 yd (walking yardage) single shot doe kill a couple years ago. Click the thumbs and then the buttons at the bottom to navigate the full size images.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.hardwarefreak.com/500yd-doe/" target="_blank">Photo Gallery</a></p><p></p><p>I killed her just before dark, walked off the distance and took the pics the following day. The pictures of the hunter in orange in the distance, Mom, who still hunts at age 68, were taken at max optical zoom, and no zoom, on the Fujitsu camera. I'm sitting at my firing position, she's standing by the gut pile. Gives a good visual indication of the range. Note the shot placement, severing the spinal cord at the base of the neck. The rifle on the left made this shot. The fiery red rifle on the right is the same Rem 788 .308 Win, but with a Boyds stock I hand finished and installed a few weeks after this kill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="500yd, post: 702075, member: 27428"] You're looking at the short range aspect backwards. The occasional lack of expansion of the NBT 150/165/168/180 (and other heavy, high speed, plastic tipped bullets) at short range is precisely the reason to use the lighter bullets. The lighter bullets have less mass, less energy, and lower sectional density. Consequently they decelerate more rapidly when they pass through strictly flesh, initial expansion is more rapid, they mushroom better, and tend to stay inside the body cavity instead of exiting. The 165/168 will expand even less at short range, causing more pass throughs than the 150s. Keep in mind I've only had a few of these. Not all short range shots pass through without a kill. Depends on the individual animal and other factors. As to the long range WT performance of the .30 NBT/BST 150s, here are some photos of a 515 yd (walking yardage) single shot doe kill a couple years ago. Click the thumbs and then the buttons at the bottom to navigate the full size images. [URL="http://www.hardwarefreak.com/500yd-doe/"]Photo Gallery[/URL] I killed her just before dark, walked off the distance and took the pics the following day. The pictures of the hunter in orange in the distance, Mom, who still hunts at age 68, were taken at max optical zoom, and no zoom, on the Fujitsu camera. I'm sitting at my firing position, she's standing by the gut pile. Gives a good visual indication of the range. Note the shot placement, severing the spinal cord at the base of the neck. The rifle on the left made this shot. The fiery red rifle on the right is the same Rem 788 .308 Win, but with a Boyds stock I hand finished and installed a few weeks after this kill. [/QUOTE]
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