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Are the Accubonds more accurate than the Ballistic tip?
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<blockquote data-quote="DartonJager" data-source="post: 2441323" data-attributes="member: 95733"><p>Simply stated by Nessler's own admission the Ballistic Tip was designed for medium sized thin skinned game like whitetail, Mule deer, and antelope and Nosler christened their BT "THE whitetail bullet". </p><p>It's not the best choice for Elk or moose or when high weight retention and deep penetration are must haves.</p><p>In smaller calibers with lighter bullets the NBT because it's both a boat tail and is not a bonded bullet like the Accubond, also doesn't perform well at close range very high impact velocities on big critters like elk and moose or if it should strike a major bone mass at close range and high velocities on smaller game like the Partition does. </p><p>Also the Nosler Partition is a flat based bullet which also holds up better than BT bullets.</p><p></p><p>The Accubond was IMO Nosler's (and I believe I read it in more than one article) attempt to meet the long time request of their customers to get the accuracy and higher BC of their BT/NBT and have the toughness of their famous Nosler Partition. The NBT was almost always a more accurate bullet due to it not having a sectional design like the Partition does and due to it's boat tail designed it had a considerably higher BC, which is all the rage now.</p><p></p><p>IIRC, the Accubond performs near identically to the Partition and it mushroom's to about 1.5x it's original diameter and retains a minimum of 60% of it's original weight same as a NPT making for a controlled expanding deep pernitrating bullet.</p><p>In short all the accuracy and higher BC benefits of a NBT with all the durability and reliable expansion of the NPT and a if you will one bullet for all north American game.</p><p>I personally can attest to the excellent accuracy potential or the NBT. I have gotten my best groups to date out of my 300wsm, 300wm and even my 308W shoots NAB as well as the NBT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DartonJager, post: 2441323, member: 95733"] Simply stated by Nessler's own admission the Ballistic Tip was designed for medium sized thin skinned game like whitetail, Mule deer, and antelope and Nosler christened their BT "THE whitetail bullet". It's not the best choice for Elk or moose or when high weight retention and deep penetration are must haves. In smaller calibers with lighter bullets the NBT because it's both a boat tail and is not a bonded bullet like the Accubond, also doesn't perform well at close range very high impact velocities on big critters like elk and moose or if it should strike a major bone mass at close range and high velocities on smaller game like the Partition does. Also the Nosler Partition is a flat based bullet which also holds up better than BT bullets. The Accubond was IMO Nosler's (and I believe I read it in more than one article) attempt to meet the long time request of their customers to get the accuracy and higher BC of their BT/NBT and have the toughness of their famous Nosler Partition. The NBT was almost always a more accurate bullet due to it not having a sectional design like the Partition does and due to it's boat tail designed it had a considerably higher BC, which is all the rage now. IIRC, the Accubond performs near identically to the Partition and it mushroom's to about 1.5x it's original diameter and retains a minimum of 60% of it's original weight same as a NPT making for a controlled expanding deep pernitrating bullet. In short all the accuracy and higher BC benefits of a NBT with all the durability and reliable expansion of the NPT and a if you will one bullet for all north American game. I personally can attest to the excellent accuracy potential or the NBT. I have gotten my best groups to date out of my 300wsm, 300wm and even my 308W shoots NAB as well as the NBT. [/QUOTE]
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