Accutip length mystery

[Zombieslayer]

Hello from Australia. I have been searching for days but have not been able to find any info on the length of a 300 win mag 180gr Accutip bullet. Even the Australian importer could not tell me! Can anyone help?

 

[MudRunner2005]

I would look for a better bullet than those Remington Accutips. I know yall are limited over there in Oz, but if you can get Bergers or even the Nosler Accubonds, you're looking at a much better bullet.

They're horrible bullets. My uncle lost 2 animals (one of which was a huge 10pt buck), because the bullet failed to function properly out of his .30-06 inside of 125 yards. Both of us are very skilled trackers, and we searched for what seemed like a mile of spread apart blood drops here and there, but we never found the deer. The other was a coyote he shot, and never found it either.

 

[Dgd6mm]

I've killed deer with the 180 nosler ballistictip. When the accutip came out I was going to try some, they were hard to get and as costly as the NBT. Stayed with the NBT, very happy.I think with I did change it would be a 178 or a 208 Amax.

 

[MudRunner2005]

I've killed deer with the 180 nosler ballistictip. When the accutip came out I was going to try some, they were hard to get and as costly as the NBT. Stayed with the NBT, very happy.I think with I did change it would be a 178 or a 208 Amax.

You should give the Bergers a try. I have been an Accubond fan for many many years, but have honestly never been happier with results, than I have been when I tried out my Bergers this year hunting. I don't see myself going back to Accubonds, or any of the other misc. brands of bullets I've tried over the last several decades.

 

[sendero72]

The Accutip is the same bullet as the Hornady SST. Hornady makes the bullet for Remington. I've used them in my 243 but they do a tremendous amount of meat damage. Never had one to fail. Very accurate too!