A partition ballistic tip

JD338 · Oct 25, 2010

boolit,

The PT was designed for the frond core to expand quickly. The front lead core breaks up and become secondary projectiles creating more shock and tissue damage inside the animal. The rear core stays intact with the jacket retaining weight for deep penetration.
Here is an example of PT bullets that were recovered from water jugs shot at 50, 100, 200 and 300 yds.
The bullet is a 225 gr PT shot from a 338 RUM.

JD338

Murphdog · Oct 25, 2010

Cool pictures JD.

I have not seen the top come off like that, then again even on elk you don't find many. If they are still in the critter most of the time they are right under the off side hide. Looking from the top down is there still a lead mushroom. I have a couple that I have saved over the years I need to find them and get a weight. The 100 grain 243 partitions are very tough and the only time I have ever found one of them is when it went almost lengthwise through a very large muley buck dropped him in his tracks.

Back when I was spending a lot of time in meat plants I say a lot of game and dug out more then a few bullets. Very few were partitions, Ballistic tips seemed to seperate the jacket from the core then again that was in the 90's. Found a lot of the Barnes X bullets, but had more to do with the customer base at one of the meat shops. Big family hunted a lot and I don't think they shot anything just once. All they used was the Barnes X bullets they just didn't use them much to practice with.

Murphdog · Oct 25, 2010

My two cents on Nosler Bullets

I am picky when it comes to my bullet selection, I try to match the bullet to the situation to the best of my ability and over the years I have tried lots of bullets from most of the major manufacturers. My current inventory of bullets bares this out. John Nosler, God Rest his Soul, approach to bullets is pure genuis, use them for there intended purpose and you will rarely go wrong. There is no such thing as a bullet that can do it all because there are just too many varibles.

I have shot a lot of game not as many as some but a lot more then the average hunter, the only failure if you can call it that was a smallish bull Moose at point blank going opposite direction on the last day. The hardest part of Moose hunting in Montana is drawing the tag and my dad was not going to eat moose tag soup. Shot him twice as he ducked into a thick stand of spruce. Both bullets broke the pelvis but neither made it through the rumen into the chest cavity. We quickly got around to the other side of the thicket. When he never came out we went looking for him. Found him 50 yards from where he was shot laying down in some deadfall. He managed to get up but was dropped with a neck shot.

Have seen some catastrophic failures from some of the other bullets on the market. One in particular was with a 190 grain boat tail that completely came apart on a mid sized muley buck at 150 yards with a 308 Norma. Destroyed the front shoulder but only a tiny piece of bullet entered the chest cavity. The small fragment hit the spine and put the deer down long enough to get up to him and finish him off.

Yes I am a loyal Nosler fan because they work.

JD338 · Oct 25, 2010

I have never recovered a PT from inside a game animal, always and exit regardless of caliber and weight. I did recover 3 after they penetrated the animal and the front lead core was gone. I have recovered a few from water jugs the retained the front lead core but most of the time its gone.

Here is a PT I found last year laying ontop of the leaves after busting the off shoulder on a WT buck. The bullet is a 250 gr PT from a 44 Rem Mag, gun is a S&W 629 Classic.

JD338