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Nosler Partition 30cal 180gr performance in question.
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<blockquote data-quote="Frank in the Laurels" data-source="post: 1258291" data-attributes="member: 8845"><p>Question the integrity of a time tested bullet like the partition ?? I've never heard of anyone in 50 years of reloading questioning it's integrity ! I've shot a railroad car full of whitetails with a 140 grain 7 mm bullet at 3100 fps and have never recovered a single bullet even those that smashed both shoulder blades, never recovered one. How you managed to stop 180 grain one in a whitetail is beyond me. Countless animals from small game to grizzly /moose have been taken with that bullet and for the most part I've never heard a single complaint about performance, from every continent on Earth. 300 yards away will surely slow down a bullet but not enough to cause it to fail, if anything it would cause it to stay together and penetrate even further, a little whitetail rib would offer very little resistance even at 300 yard velocity. Obviously something happened, are you sure you had the right amount of powder in there, things happen at times when reloading, did the bullet pass through some unseen object, like a tree branch before hitting the deer..at 300 yards, say the velocity was down to 25/2600 fps, the core certainly would not fail at those velocities. Maybe you just got a bad bullet but to do it over and over doesn't sound right to me...the bullet is designed not to go past the middle of the H ...that's the idea, so that it can be driven forward no matter what happens to the front..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank in the Laurels, post: 1258291, member: 8845"] Question the integrity of a time tested bullet like the partition ?? I've never heard of anyone in 50 years of reloading questioning it's integrity ! I've shot a railroad car full of whitetails with a 140 grain 7 mm bullet at 3100 fps and have never recovered a single bullet even those that smashed both shoulder blades, never recovered one. How you managed to stop 180 grain one in a whitetail is beyond me. Countless animals from small game to grizzly /moose have been taken with that bullet and for the most part I've never heard a single complaint about performance, from every continent on Earth. 300 yards away will surely slow down a bullet but not enough to cause it to fail, if anything it would cause it to stay together and penetrate even further, a little whitetail rib would offer very little resistance even at 300 yard velocity. Obviously something happened, are you sure you had the right amount of powder in there, things happen at times when reloading, did the bullet pass through some unseen object, like a tree branch before hitting the deer..at 300 yards, say the velocity was down to 25/2600 fps, the core certainly would not fail at those velocities. Maybe you just got a bad bullet but to do it over and over doesn't sound right to me...the bullet is designed not to go past the middle of the H ...that's the idea, so that it can be driven forward no matter what happens to the front.. [/QUOTE]
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