375 ruger 260 accubond ballistics - WOW!!!

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Idahotrophyhunter

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So i bought some 260 accubonds for my Ruger African and was looking in the manual - should be able to get 28-2850 fps pretty easy. I stuck that velocity in the ballistic calculator and WAS BLOWN AWAY by what i got...shoots flat as a 270 150grain load to 500 yards with a whole lot more energy!!! I may have a new 400 yard elk gun.


Max Point blank range is 286 yds when zeroed at 242 yds.
0 -1.5 2850 4689 105.86 2347
100 1.7 2680 4145 99.53 0.109 0.6 2 1951
200 0.0 2516 3654 93.44 0.224 2.4 5 1615
300 -7.2 2358 3211 87.60 0.347 5.6 7 1330
400 -20.6 2207 2813 81.99 0.479 10.2 10 1091
500 -41.2 2061 2453 76.57 0.620 16.4 13 888
 
I'm getting 2835 with them over Big Game. Shooting right at 1" (better on a good day for me and the gun). I have played around a bit with some 270 TSX and RL-17. No groups to brag about (best was just under an inch, but was only doing 2600 fps). Was able to get up into the mid 2700-low 2800 range though. I'll try the 260 Ab with RL-17 some day and see what I get.

If you have not shot an elk with it yet, you really should. The 260 AB is an impressive bullet for sure!
 
Thats pretty impressive.
I'd say you have a 400 yd elk hammer!

JD338
 
No doubt it will work well for about anything you would ever want to hunt.
 
Need to mention the 260AB works extremely well at 40yds too.

Here's my recovered bullet from a 4x4 elk:

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My 375 Ruger has a 24" Pac-Nor 3 groove and I managed to hit 3000 fps working up with the 260 AB and RL17. Accuracy was not as good as at a lower velocity though

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but the 270 TSX was the best accuracy

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DO NOT USE THIS DATA WITHOUT STARTING LOWER AND WORKING UP LIKE I DID (I started at 74 gr RL17)
 
Rich,

I'm somewhat surprised that you didn't get complete penetration. That is excellent performance from the bullet, nevertheless.
 
That is some excellent bullet performance. I really like those big AB's. I was surprised when Rich first posted that AB out of his RUM, but I can't imagine the amount of trauma created by that bullet. It would have been cool to see what the skin looked like on the far side!

Nothing short range about that set up at all.
 
Woods - that's awesome accuracy from the TSX 270's - wow!

Idahotrophyhunter - yes - the 260 grain Nosler AccuBond is one of those very special bullets that just flat gets the job done. I loaded my .375 H&H Number One rather mild with the 260's - only 69 grains of Reloader 15 - and got 2620 fps. Mild, but I stayed with that load because of the superb accuracy, and it's still producing over 4,000 ft lbs of energy at the muzzle! Now I'm not a big "energy" kind of guy, but that's an impressive figure. Sighted my rifle in at 200 yards and had absolutely no problem hammering a good size black bear at 306 yards. The minimal drop was no problem, and I knew the accuracy was there. The bear dropped at bullet impact and I was unable to recover the bullet because it penetrated completely through the bear, pretty much wrecking his internal parts.

Yeah, it's a good bullet... Accurate and impressive both on the range and afield.

Guy
 
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These were recovered out of a 3x4 bull elk at 242 yards. The bigger one of the two was a quartering shot. Hit right in front of the hams and travled the full lenght of the bull. The second shot was not needed for a kill, but was needed to prevent him from deciding that down hill was the was to go. It took out both front shoulders, and was under the hide on the far side.

I was a bit miffed that the broadside one didn't at least exit, but they sure delivered some energy! I have also shot a Spike bull at 20 yards or so, entered in front of near shoulder blew right out the far one. Instant dirt nap!

One thing that I have noticed about these bigger bullets is that they don't waste any meat at all!
 
These are all great pictures. Woods, I agree with Guy that you are demonstrating some fine accuracy. Jake, that is great bullet performance.
 
It's real nice having a fairly high BC .375" hunting bullet.

Interestingly, the 300 gr AccuBond isn't rated all that much better for ballistic coefficient. I thought it would really be much better given that it's quite a bit longer. I'll bet it's still useful though - particularly out of the big boomers that can launch a 300 gr bullet well.
 
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