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<blockquote data-quote="catorres1" data-source="post: 1103175" data-attributes="member: 80699"><p>No problem Fez, we all help eachother learn stuff, and I am interested in hearing the answers to your question! Along those lines, I can tell you that as of yesterday, Midway had 6.5 142 ABLR's in stock. They were like 48 a box I think. I actually have a box sitting in my cart, but I decided not to buy just now.</p><p></p><p>The reason is that I am told they are an extraordinarily soft bullet. I had heard this before, but thought that since Nosler is probably thinking of the 142 to go with the 26 nosler, maybe it would be a bit harder. </p><p></p><p>But the tech I talked to suggested being careful with them as they are so soft, the ogives are easily damaged. However he may have been talking about other calibers, as he had not gotten his 6.5 creedmore going yet with this bullet. He said he was planning on doing the same I am talking about, that is using that one bullet as both a target and hunting bullet out of his gun. So maybe that's an endorsement, I just don't know. But looking at ballistics, if I remember correctly, shooting that out of my CTR is like shooting it out of the 26 nosler at like 400 yards or something like that. My understanding is that this bullet shines out past 500 or even much farther. Being that I like a hole all the way through, and not overly destructive to meat, I worry about this one, especially if it hits bone.</p><p></p><p>In doing my research, I read online a few people tell of bending the bullets (in other calibers) easily when trying to remove them from unfired cartridges. So again, not sure this is a bullet for me. But I am really curious to hear from soneone that has actually used them, because if they would maintain at least 50% weight, I could probably live with that, considering how nice it would be to have one bullet for everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catorres1, post: 1103175, member: 80699"] No problem Fez, we all help eachother learn stuff, and I am interested in hearing the answers to your question! Along those lines, I can tell you that as of yesterday, Midway had 6.5 142 ABLR's in stock. They were like 48 a box I think. I actually have a box sitting in my cart, but I decided not to buy just now. The reason is that I am told they are an extraordinarily soft bullet. I had heard this before, but thought that since Nosler is probably thinking of the 142 to go with the 26 nosler, maybe it would be a bit harder. But the tech I talked to suggested being careful with them as they are so soft, the ogives are easily damaged. However he may have been talking about other calibers, as he had not gotten his 6.5 creedmore going yet with this bullet. He said he was planning on doing the same I am talking about, that is using that one bullet as both a target and hunting bullet out of his gun. So maybe that's an endorsement, I just don't know. But looking at ballistics, if I remember correctly, shooting that out of my CTR is like shooting it out of the 26 nosler at like 400 yards or something like that. My understanding is that this bullet shines out past 500 or even much farther. Being that I like a hole all the way through, and not overly destructive to meat, I worry about this one, especially if it hits bone. In doing my research, I read online a few people tell of bending the bullets (in other calibers) easily when trying to remove them from unfired cartridges. So again, not sure this is a bullet for me. But I am really curious to hear from soneone that has actually used them, because if they would maintain at least 50% weight, I could probably live with that, considering how nice it would be to have one bullet for everything. [/QUOTE]
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