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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 2568042" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>Over the years I have used ballistic Tips and Accubonds. I haven't tried the Hammer bullets yet. I don't really have a rifle that has the twist rate to handle them. I didn't generally carry a camera with me to take pictures of wound channels. Over the 64 years I've hunting I have looked a great many animals killed by me and others more so. Found that Partition don't like high velocity or at close range. Only used a 100gr in my 25/06 once and bloodshot one entire side of a deer at about 40yds. Never use them again. At that time I changed to 120 Nosler SPBT and have used them after that. I move up to 308NM with 165gr Ballistic tips for elk hunting and deer hunting @ 3300fps. They did a great job from close range out 500yds or so. Most of the time I didn't have a range finder either. Shots or kills were from 40yds to over 300yds appox. No ranger finder at those times. Very little meat damage at any range I was shooting at. Over the years I seem to like the 338 WM round better on elk class animals better. I have looked at other animal that were taken by other hunters using .338 WM chambers, over those same years. They seem to do a better job in dropping the elk and larger animals, than my 308 NM. I now use a 338 with 200gr Nosler ballistic, and Nosler Accubonds @ 3200+fps. Not much in blood shot meat either. My exit holes were not of any great amount, and blood shot was very little. </p><p>Now if my rifles can't do over 3100fps, and group in the 1/2:" or under at 100yds, I am not interested in them personally. To each there own. Most rifles I have loaded for over the years I have been able to achieve that. The other bullet I have been impressed with was the 130gr Sierra B.T in a 270 on deer. I've seen over 150 deer taken by those bullets. From every directions. There wasn't much blood shot areas either. Presently I don't know on how they perform. My cousins are all gone now, and there boys don't hunt much. </p><p>There a lot of bullets I have looked at their wound channel, and most I wouldn't use either. "Picky"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 2568042, member: 101791"] Over the years I have used ballistic Tips and Accubonds. I haven't tried the Hammer bullets yet. I don't really have a rifle that has the twist rate to handle them. I didn't generally carry a camera with me to take pictures of wound channels. Over the 64 years I've hunting I have looked a great many animals killed by me and others more so. Found that Partition don't like high velocity or at close range. Only used a 100gr in my 25/06 once and bloodshot one entire side of a deer at about 40yds. Never use them again. At that time I changed to 120 Nosler SPBT and have used them after that. I move up to 308NM with 165gr Ballistic tips for elk hunting and deer hunting @ 3300fps. They did a great job from close range out 500yds or so. Most of the time I didn't have a range finder either. Shots or kills were from 40yds to over 300yds appox. No ranger finder at those times. Very little meat damage at any range I was shooting at. Over the years I seem to like the 338 WM round better on elk class animals better. I have looked at other animal that were taken by other hunters using .338 WM chambers, over those same years. They seem to do a better job in dropping the elk and larger animals, than my 308 NM. I now use a 338 with 200gr Nosler ballistic, and Nosler Accubonds @ 3200+fps. Not much in blood shot meat either. My exit holes were not of any great amount, and blood shot was very little. Now if my rifles can't do over 3100fps, and group in the 1/2:" or under at 100yds, I am not interested in them personally. To each there own. Most rifles I have loaded for over the years I have been able to achieve that. The other bullet I have been impressed with was the 130gr Sierra B.T in a 270 on deer. I've seen over 150 deer taken by those bullets. From every directions. There wasn't much blood shot areas either. Presently I don't know on how they perform. My cousins are all gone now, and there boys don't hunt much. There a lot of bullets I have looked at their wound channel, and most I wouldn't use either. "Picky" [/QUOTE]
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