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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1357529" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Will share one specific NP experience at long range from the early 1980s. When a wet thumb and pre-hunt paced off yardage to distant targets ruled the day. Back then the common term was Kentucky windage or yardage.</p><p>A 250gr round nose NP, fired from .338 Win Mag. Distance tape measured at ~762yds, after the fact. I zeroed my moose rifle @ around 300yds in those days. Held about 7-10 feet high with a 2.5-8x36mm Leopold, best as I recollect. Dead centered the ribs on a completely broadside shot. Bullet stopped under the offside hide. Picture perfect expansion and relatively high weight retention - no doubt due to the slow impact velocity. Bullet was probably only going ~1,300 fps at impact. Bull jumped at the hit and ran about 35yds. Lay down and never regained feet. Still have that bullet somewhere or another, and I still have some 338WM reloaded with that bullet. Their Partitions look different today, compared to the early 80s. Different manufacturing process.</p><p>Not many moose killed at that distance with round nose Partitions. I don't think Nosler even made the pointed soft point partitions at the time. Later they made both 210 and 250gr PSP partitions.</p><p>Killed one other bull moose with the 250 NP Round nose at 70yds in 1976. Frontal shot where the neck joins the chest. Again 338 WM. Dumped the bull in his tracks, which is unusual with a body shot on a large bull.</p><p>Besides those, shot another ~3 bull moose with the 210 NP PSPs.</p><p>Also killed 1 caribou with the 250 NP RN and maybe 10 deer with the 210 NP PSP.</p><p>Never had a terminal performance disappointment with any NP, RN or PSP, from my 338 WM. Always excellent terminal performance with the NP.</p><p>But I now load some of the original 225gr Trophy Bonded Bear Claws or 275gr Swift A-Frames for bear defense, camp defense, and for game animals at less than ~ 300yds, for my 338s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1357529, member: 4191"] Will share one specific NP experience at long range from the early 1980s. When a wet thumb and pre-hunt paced off yardage to distant targets ruled the day. Back then the common term was Kentucky windage or yardage. A 250gr round nose NP, fired from .338 Win Mag. Distance tape measured at ~762yds, after the fact. I zeroed my moose rifle @ around 300yds in those days. Held about 7-10 feet high with a 2.5-8x36mm Leopold, best as I recollect. Dead centered the ribs on a completely broadside shot. Bullet stopped under the offside hide. Picture perfect expansion and relatively high weight retention - no doubt due to the slow impact velocity. Bullet was probably only going ~1,300 fps at impact. Bull jumped at the hit and ran about 35yds. Lay down and never regained feet. Still have that bullet somewhere or another, and I still have some 338WM reloaded with that bullet. Their Partitions look different today, compared to the early 80s. Different manufacturing process. Not many moose killed at that distance with round nose Partitions. I don't think Nosler even made the pointed soft point partitions at the time. Later they made both 210 and 250gr PSP partitions. Killed one other bull moose with the 250 NP Round nose at 70yds in 1976. Frontal shot where the neck joins the chest. Again 338 WM. Dumped the bull in his tracks, which is unusual with a body shot on a large bull. Besides those, shot another ~3 bull moose with the 210 NP PSPs. Also killed 1 caribou with the 250 NP RN and maybe 10 deer with the 210 NP PSP. Never had a terminal performance disappointment with any NP, RN or PSP, from my 338 WM. Always excellent terminal performance with the NP. But I now load some of the original 225gr Trophy Bonded Bear Claws or 275gr Swift A-Frames for bear defense, camp defense, and for game animals at less than ~ 300yds, for my 338s. [/QUOTE]
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