35 caliber accubond

[hvy barrel]

Does Nosler make a 180 grain 35 caliber AccuBond?
I thought that I seen it listed in the # 6 manual last night, but I have not seen it on the website.
Did I dream this bullet up?

 

[Lars]

Please dream up a 250 grains AccuBond for me next.

 

[JD338]

Sorry, no 180 gr AB offerings in 35 cal, only the 225 gr AB, 225 gr PT and 250 gr PT.

JD338

 

[normo]

I'd like to see them in 180gr and 200gr, for shooting in T/C Contender pistols.... :grin:

 

[hvy barrel]

Yep, dreamed it up!
I looked again last night, the only 180gr listing was a pistol bullet.
I think that a 180 or 200 gr AccuBond would go over well.

 

[Mauserkid]

Not to hyjack your thread, but why did they convert the ballistic tip to an AccuBond any how? I would have thought the jacket would have been fine for most hunting.

 

[Powerstroke]

Mauserkid,

First of all, welcome to the Forum ....

The A-bond and B-tip are two separate bullets, no conversion as you can purchase either or.
The A-bond is basically a bonded version of the B-tip. Some here are able to interchange the A-bond with the B-tips and shoot in the same place..... and some not. Either way, both excellent bullets.

 

[Mauserkid]

I am sorry; I guess I should not have used the word conversion... Should have said replaced. The ballistic version is no longer available for the .358 caliber. I know the acubond is bonded core technology; my question is why was it necessary to change over on that particular caliber?
The ballistic tip was made with a thicker jacket on the larger diameter projectiles.
By making them an acubond, Nosler increased the cost of the bullet heads. The entire reason I built my 35 was to use the Balistic tip bullet heads, they were not overly priced, shot well in other rifle calibers, and cabable of taking large game.

 

[FOTIS]

Give it time who knows?

 

[RogueRiver]

The bullet was to long unless seated deeply and way to explosive for my liking, I shot a mule deer with my whelen and it created the largest exit hole I have ever seen it was the size of a soft ball. I like rem rn cl for deer and 250 partitions for elk, I going to give 225 parts a try this next year for elk.

 

[tjen]

What grain weight Corelokts RN are you using for deer in the whelen? Asking because I use the 200gr CLRN in a 35rem at 2200fps it works great. I also see it loaded in the 358win at 2500fps and thats seems like its pushing it but I do not know how well it works at that or higher velcities?

 

[JD338]

tjen,

I played with some 200 gr SPCL (35 Rem) bullets in my 35 Whelen quite a fre years ago. They shot well and held together just as well as the 200 gr PSPCL factory loads. In fact, I shot a total of 4 bucks with the 200 gr PSPCL in '88 and '89 and 2 never exited!
The first year I hunted with my Whelen, I shot two bucks. Buck #1 was a big 11 pt shot at the base of the neck as he was qtr away. Smashed the spine and never exited. The Taxidermist lost the bullet.
Buck #2 was a Spike shot head on in the neck. Bullet smashed the spine and deflected down through the shoulder and was found under the hide when I skinned him.
I switched to the 225 gr PT in '90 when Nosler introduced this bullet and never looked back.

JD338