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Accubond early expansion problems.
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<blockquote data-quote="JIsbell40" data-source="post: 1835218" data-attributes="member: 99153"><p>Shocking to think that LR bullets do not hold up to short range high velocity. I dunno maybe they intended the bullet to</p><p>Expand at low velocity for a reason seeing as it is called Accubond LONG RANGE?</p><p></p><p>I have loaded 175 ABLR down to 1590 fps impact in a 7-08 and shot it into gel. They still expand even at that velocity. Crank that dude up to 3110fps impact in my 7wsm and it is the shallowest, most explosive expansion I have ever seen from a bullet of this sectional density in any caliber. It's more violent than a berger, amax, eld m/x, TMK, I tried them all at various speeds.</p><p></p><p></p><p>with all that being said I no longer shoot bergers at very long distances on deer sized game. When they get below 2000 fps I've seen a lot pencil through both gel and deer. ELDs expand down to about 1750 fps. ABLE even lower than that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>so to sum this up, it's not surprising that when nosler engineered this bullet to expand at very low impact speed, if you shoot it at a range that means high impact speed, it over expands and under penetrates. There is no magic to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JIsbell40, post: 1835218, member: 99153"] Shocking to think that LR bullets do not hold up to short range high velocity. I dunno maybe they intended the bullet to Expand at low velocity for a reason seeing as it is called Accubond LONG RANGE? I have loaded 175 ABLR down to 1590 fps impact in a 7-08 and shot it into gel. They still expand even at that velocity. Crank that dude up to 3110fps impact in my 7wsm and it is the shallowest, most explosive expansion I have ever seen from a bullet of this sectional density in any caliber. It’s more violent than a berger, amax, eld m/x, TMK, I tried them all at various speeds. with all that being said I no longer shoot bergers at very long distances on deer sized game. When they get below 2000 fps I’ve seen a lot pencil through both gel and deer. ELDs expand down to about 1750 fps. ABLE even lower than that. so to sum this up, it’s not surprising that when nosler engineered this bullet to expand at very low impact speed, if you shoot it at a range that means high impact speed, it over expands and under penetrates. There is no magic to it. [/QUOTE]
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