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Nosler Partition 30cal 180gr performance in question.
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<blockquote data-quote="toddc" data-source="post: 1258406" data-attributes="member: 4566"><p>Truthfully, the whole story sounds very weird. </p><p>I am assuming the rifle was a 300 win mag with the charge used. The 108gr charge referenced was your sons and you drove 84gr.</p><p>Is it possible the deer was actually shot with a 300 Blackout and a 125 SMK?</p><p>That is the difference in performance level you are talking about.</p><p>Unless the doe weighed 1500 lbs I can't in any way see this happening without a severe manufacturing defect. Like "OOPS forgot to put core in bullet". </p><p>Any 180gr 308 running that much powder would pass thru a chest shot 99% of the time. A bullet like the Partition would be 100% of the time.</p><p>You said the bullet only penetrated 1 rib, a lung and then stopped in the far lung. A lung is about as good as AIR at stopping a bullet. I have killed thousands of critters (shot control 15 yrs), and I have never found a bullet in a lung that I can remember. They are about 95% AIR. Found plenty of bullets stuck under the hide or even stuck in ribs but not in a lung.</p><p>I can't give you an answer for what happened. I can pretty much assure you that the odds of it happening again is about 1 million to 1 unless you have a box of bullets with no cores. That would be about the only way that what you described could occur.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toddc, post: 1258406, member: 4566"] Truthfully, the whole story sounds very weird. I am assuming the rifle was a 300 win mag with the charge used. The 108gr charge referenced was your sons and you drove 84gr. Is it possible the deer was actually shot with a 300 Blackout and a 125 SMK? That is the difference in performance level you are talking about. Unless the doe weighed 1500 lbs I can't in any way see this happening without a severe manufacturing defect. Like "OOPS forgot to put core in bullet". Any 180gr 308 running that much powder would pass thru a chest shot 99% of the time. A bullet like the Partition would be 100% of the time. You said the bullet only penetrated 1 rib, a lung and then stopped in the far lung. A lung is about as good as AIR at stopping a bullet. I have killed thousands of critters (shot control 15 yrs), and I have never found a bullet in a lung that I can remember. They are about 95% AIR. Found plenty of bullets stuck under the hide or even stuck in ribs but not in a lung. I can't give you an answer for what happened. I can pretty much assure you that the odds of it happening again is about 1 million to 1 unless you have a box of bullets with no cores. That would be about the only way that what you described could occur. [/QUOTE]
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