Accubonds, Partitions, or Ballistic Tips

[ajvigs]

Well, my Montana XWR is coming home with me Tuesday (they finished it ahead of schedule! :grin: ). Now the question is, which bullet to shoot for hogs? I have a box of Nosler TGR 140grn Accubonds, and the BassPro down the street has oodles of Federal 140 grn Partitions and Ballistic Tips.

I plan on hitting the range next Friday and seeing which shoots best in the XWR, but I want a round that will handle hogs AND deer well: Penetration and weight retention.

Thoughts?

Thanks all,

A.J.

 

[DrMike]

Any should work for you. I confess that I've always favoured Partitions, though AccuBonds are gaining a pretty good grip on my interest in recent years.

 

[JD338]

7mm-08?
Tough to beat a PT for anything.

JD338

 

[Guy Miner]

Might want to take a look at what Steven (Roysclockgun) had to say about the 120 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, used by his wife Storm to take wild hogs... Very impressive!

They both used those 120's in Florida on hogs and in Wyoming on mule deer & pronghorn. In Wyoming at least, neither of them were able to recover a bullet as the little 120 B-Tips penetrated right on through, dropping game instantly! Not bad at all... Steven used the .280 Rem, Storm the 7-08, both with the 120 BT's.

A quote from Steven:

"Performance report on the 7mm Nosler 120gr. Ballistic Tip : All six pigs were killed by through and through hits. Three dropped in place, while three made it distances no more than 20 yards, or less. Storm's cartridges were loaded to just over 3000fps, while my 280Rem. with the same bullet was loaded to 3150fps. The 120gr. BT has now proven itself to us by taking white tail, muley, pronghorn and wild pigs. The pigs were taken at ranges less than 60 yards. The deer and pronghorn were taken out to 240 yards. Exit wounds were larger than expected. The results have been better than I would have thought."

Link to the entire thread with photos, discussion, etc: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22431&p=215016#p215016

I don't see much need for anything heavier or stronger for general purpose hunting, than the B-Tip. It's really quite a bullet.

Regards, Guy

 

[SJB358]

AV, I would use whichever shoots best in your rifle for hogs and such. Any of them are great at 7-08 speeds buddy.

Now, if you were stepping up to larger stuff, it might be tougher, as I would want a bonded bullet or PT. But again, for hogs and such, I bet the 140 BT outta your 7-08 at factory speeds will act like a premium.

Congrats at the pre arrival of your rifle!

 

[gerry]

For your purpose probably any 7mm-08 factory load produced would work well for deer and hogs, I don't think you can go wrong with any of the ones mentioned or a bunch of other loads. Your gun will tell you what it likes. I would be really interested in seeing how the MRC rifle works, hopefully you will keep us up to date on how things progress.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Find a factory load which is accurate with any of these three bullets and you will probably do fine for hogs and deer or whatever in that game size range. I don't know what caliber this rifle is but if 7mm, the 140 gr bullets would be my choice.

 

[FOTIS]

140grn Accubonds

 

[russ808]

Ditto on the 140 Abonds.
Russ

 

[super-7]

this thread is NFG without some pics...LOL tough to beat a 140 AB in the '08 though.

 

[Dr. Vette]

AV, I would use whichever shoots best in your rifle for hogs and such. Any of them are great at 7-08 speeds buddy.

Agreed. Whichever one shoots the best is the one I'd use.

 

[sask boy]

I would try the AB first because of the boattail but if shots are close the Partition has been the top pick for me for many years :wink:

Blessings,
Dan

 

[Ridge_Runner]

at 7-08 velocities the ballistic tip is all you need, the 120's hold up so well because the same jacket cup is used for the 120 as the 140, so the 120's jacket ends up thicker.
RR