Accubond on Elk

[WYcoyote]

I shot a 5pt bull elk this fall with a 180gr AB out of a 300 Win Mag @ 3100 fps muzzle vel. He was moving 100yds away and the bullet broke the near side shoulder and continued thru the far shoulder with less bone contact and was found just under the hide. Retained weight was 82.7 gr and all that was left is basically a blown jacket. The damage was quite extensive, he dropped out of my line of sight but was pretty much dead right there. I hoped for a little better weight retention but it was a fairly severe test for a bullet.
Just thought I'd share this experience so you guys can apply it when you make your bullet choice.

 

[257 Ackley]

Thank you....that is the bullet I have loads worked up for my 300 WSM.

 

[SJB358]

Man, that is AWESOME! Great performance. Pretty hard to capture those 180's out of a 300WM. Scotty

 

[DrMike]

Looks as if it did the job on that elk.

 

[JD338]

WYcoyote

Nice performance on your elk.

JD338

 

[6mm Remington]

Tough bullet and one tough test! Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SJB358]

Tough bullet and one tough test! Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

How are you coming with your sons WSM David? Still waiting to hear how it works out. Scotty

 

[Hammerdown]

Yeah, that looks like a used bullet. It made an elk dead. I have yet to re-use a bullet, looks to me you got all the use out of that one on the first go.

Happy hunting.

 

[officerdare]

What recipe did you use on the 180AB?

 

[SJB358]

What recipe did you use on the 180AB?

What cartridge are you looking at? If the 300 WSM, RL17,19 and H4831 worked well for me.

 

[officerdare]

The 300 WinMag. Kicking myself for having sold my 300WSM a couple of years ago.

 

[Teknys]

The WSM and 180 Nosler XX: I settled on RL17.

 

[SJB358]

Anything RL19,22,25, H1000, 7828 should have you doing well pretty quickly.