nosler accu-bonds

[woodsdweller]

 i was wondering what everyone elses experiances and thoughts are of this bullet. my son shot a buck on thanksgivin day w/ a 160 gr accu-bond traveling at 3100 fps. the shot was 75 yards and it made one of the biggest holes in a deer i have ever seen. i am thinking we may need to go with a soft point of some sort.

[necchi]

 
Well I haven't had a chance to shoot a deer with the 165's I have for my 308 yet, but I like the way they fly,,group real nice,,
 But just off the top I'd say "Whatta ya expect!" 
3100 is kinda quick fer a 75yrd shot, Hope he didn't make a shoulder shot at that range. You could load'm down a bit and find a slower node,,,?
What ya shootin ? 7mm Mag?

[Lloyd Smale]

like woodsweller said at that speed any bullet is going to do alot of damage. Some of the worse meat damage ive seen has been with partiions. thing is they allways penetrate and do alot of off side damage. Only cure for your trouble would probably be a cheap cup and core bullet that once inside a deer doesnt exit. Bottom line is a 7mag of any sort is a big overkill on deer sized game unless your shots are out at 300 yards.

[drdougrx]

I use accubonds almost exclusively for hunting these days.  I find they have the accuracy of the BT and the penetration of the PT.  I've used them in my 300mag (200gr @2920fps), 7x57 (140gr @2400fps), 30-06 (165gr @2650fps), etc.  The 200gr in the 300 flipped a 200lb blackie and was a 1 shot kill...but at 50yrds...that was expected.  Meat damage was no more nor less than a 180gr sp from an 06.  The 7x57 was used on a 150-160lb fallow deer at 60ish yards...lung shot and he went right down...again..no more damage than I'd normally expect. (though lately I've been using 175gr Hornady RN in this rifle and I'm very happy with the results!)  The 06...well..100ish pound sheep at...15yrds...frontal chest shot.....let's just say the penetration was end to end.

I like them and will continue to use them.  I buy them from the Nosler store as factory seconds so I have quite a few of them as well as BTs and PTs.

BTW...I don't use them in my 270 cause I really like the 150gr bullet weight in that caliber and Nosler won't make an AB in 150...it'd be too long they tell me.  Same in 243...they don't make one in 243 for the same reason...so I use either BTs or PTs in each of those.  I would also use them in my 375HH or my 35whalen, but haven't planned to use those rifles for any hunts as of yet and have plenty of other bullets to play with until I do...would like to try the 225gr in my whalen and the 260 in my 375 though.  Going to wait till some factory 2nds surface cause there's not much sense in shooting first run premiums at paper.

[tony212]

I use the 150 grain Accubonds  in a 300 win mag and they perform excellent.  Took a cow elk a few years back at a tad under 300 yards and she dropped in her tracks.  this year a 145 lb buck at about 80 yards, and same thing.  They are very accurate in my rifle, thats the main reason I use them.
Tony212

[Buckskin]

Come on, any bullet hitting at that speed will make a big hole. I shot a buck at about that range last week running right at me, so I shot it in the neck.  Wierd story but I had my Buddy's 300 Rem Mag and he apparentlywas using cheap bullets, it made a ton of damage in the neck and all i found was two pieces of copper and very little lead attached. I would rather have a big hole and most of the lead still on the slug than dispersed throughout the meat.  Luckily it was in the neck and not in the good parts!

[woodsdweller]

my son was using his long range shooter. a 7 STW. he shot some impressive groups at 400 yrds with the accu-bonds and they are on the top of the list for great hunting bullets. so thats what we went with. i know before everyone jumps on the stw it is big but there are places we can shoot a loooong ways. just was looking to see what everyone elses results were. thanks for the reports guys.

[shot1]

The Accubond is the best of both worlds in my book. They fly like the ballistic tip and start to open up like a ballistic tip but hold together and keep on trucking like a partition. I shoot the 130 gr AB in my 264 Win mag at average MV 3350 fps and have shot deer as close as 80 yards and the bullet holds together and exits. I found one that was shot into a buck that was almost facing me at 111 yards. Bullet entered the front edge of the left shoulder and when I cut up the meat I found it in the right ham. Bullet weight was 87 grs and was a text book mushroom. If your son had shot that deer with that 7 STW with a conventional cup and core bullet at that range there would have been much more damage. My buddy use to use one for a while a few years back. At the time the only bullet that would not really come apart at under 100 yards was the Nosler partitions. He actually killed two deer with one shot at 115 yards with a 140 gr partition. It was late in the evening and a buck he had been hunting all season showed up at the edge of a field but kept just inside the weeds at the edge. He got a clear path to his front shoulder and popped him. The buck dropped in his tracks but just back of him he could see the weeds shaking. When he got to the buck he found a doe about 10 yards on the off side of the buck. She was very dead with a entrance hole the size of a golf ball in her gut and an exit hole the size of a golf ball just behind her front shoulder.  The buck had and entrance and exit hole through the center of both shoulders. Killed both in their tracks.

[woodsdweller]

well the accu-bonds out of the stw performed wonderfully this am. .284 going in and about the size of a quater on exit. not sure what took place on first deer. 70 yrd shot today thu both front sholders.  told him next time put it back afew more inches.lol