200g@2700, Sounds like thats not going to happen with that powder. So...
The B.C. of that 200g spire point partition is higher than the "shorter" and "blunter" {if thats a word} 175g LFN, but it is not that much higher. Doesn't matter anyway the increased velociity more than makes up for that. If both bullets are sighted 3" high at 100, drop at 300yds will be the with in a .5" of each other, comparing the 2 velocities stated, ie; LFN@2700/NP@2400fps.
@ 300yds velocity of the NP will be less than 1900fps, what does nosler say about minimum velocity for expansion with that bullet.
Yah, paper ballistics are good, for trajectory, but a pin hole through an elk, because the bullet didn't expand enough, will have you on you're hands and knees for a long, long, distance. A LFN @1600fps {300yd impact} will cut a .75" permanent hole all the way through, that elk is not going to live, if you did your part. Food for thought.
swampthing
Actually, the BC of the NP is much higher @ .426, which is quite good. I went to the Beartooth site & they don't list a BC for that bullet, & why should they? The bullet was not designed for 300 yard shooting of game, as any hunter would know. So even with your new set of rules that you want to throw in, 2,700 vs 2,400, yes the NP would be flatter. But why ignor what he wants, he wants the NP or a comparable spire point bullet at a vel. of 2,700 & it doesn't matter what you or I want. That's why I made the first post about a 8mm/06, if he wants the velocity, he needs a bigger case.
I hunt with hardcast bullets too & I like them in the proper application of larger bores & big bullets as in 45-70, 444 & big bore handguns. They are very effective in that application. They did design the 8mm bullet for a reason, it is a bullet that an owner of an 8mm can use when he wants to harvest game at close to moderste ranges with a cast bullet. No one I know with any hunting experience whatsoever would use this bullet to hunt game at 300 yards & over. What those that do this kind of hunting never consider is wind drift. A flatnose bullet at 1,600fps will be blown all over the place at 300 yards in a Western wind. So then we would have a hole punched in the animal (.75" or perhaps not .75") and hit too far back or
in the leg, whatever. Do you think that maybe why I don't ever hear about any Elk hunters using this bullet?
But I have heard of experienced hunters using the Nosler Partition at 2,400-2,500 fps quite a bit, go back & look at Drilling Man's post. The effectiveness of the NP as Drilling Man used it was not questioned by anyone as far as I know. But I can tell you that I would not hunt with anyone if they tell me beforehand that they are using an 8mm with a hard cast FN & is willing to shoot an Elk or Moose at 300 or more yards with that set-up!
No, I would stay a long ways from that "hunter", thank you very much.
Remember, he is asking how to get a flatter trajectory by increasing vel. of the bullet
HE wants, not what you or I want. For me, I would go to a whole different cartridge, but that is not what Mr. Joe is asking about, therefore irrelevant.
