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Guy Miner":2w3eh7l3 said:Funny how this came up again, a year later! :grin:
With the 165 grain Ballistic Tip I've taken whitetail, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, elk and black bear. All very nicely.
Here's the 165 grain Ballistic Tip I recovered from a mule deer buck I shot lengthwise in 2016:
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And a link to a 2012 test I did with the Ballistic Tip:
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Good bullets, no doubt!
Guy
I think you’d be hard pressed to find much game that could stand up to either bullet in the’06. I started with 200 grain AB’s in my .300 WSM because I couldn’t find any 180’s. When I did I started loading those in my ‘06. I’ve since gone to the 180’s in the WSM and 165’s in the ‘06. I’m not getting some of the velocities you guys at in the ‘06, 2800 with the 165 and 2700 with the 180, but they shoot so that’s all I care about. At those speeds I should play with the BT’s again some day, even if it’s just for messing around.About 5 years ago I made the 165 AccuBond my standard go-to bullet in my Model 70 .30-06. Since then I’ve recovered three of them from all the various game animals I’ve taken with them. One from my Aoudad, shot through both shoulders at 150 yards, two from two elk, also shot through both shoulders at about 200 yards; all three bullets were recovered under the offside hide and retained 70 percent of their weight. I have not yet recovered one from a mule deer nor anything smaller that I’ve shot.
Of all the bullets I’ve tried in the .30-06, the AccuBond is far and away my favorite.
IMR4350 is my preferred powder.
Below is the picture of the slug I recovered from the Aoudad.
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