Noslers Up!

[Guy Miner]

Okay, I've been plinking and practicing with Those Other Bullets because they are inexpensive, but now it's time to get serious about my fall hunting loads for the 7mm Rem mag and the .375 H&H... Some poor little black bear is out there right now, scampering around, feeding, living the life of a bear, blissfully ignorant that I'm here in my loading room grinning like a madman as I seat 7mm/160 gr Nosler Partitions and .375/260 grain Accubonds into primed and charged cases... :grin: Poor bear...

Black bear, mule deer and an elk hunt are all planned, for here in Washington State. I no more "need" the .375 than anything, but there it is... Guess I'll use it. :grin:

Funny, back in about '74 or '75 when I wanted a "good" hunting bullet for my then new 6mm Rem I turned to a Nosler Partition. Still have a box of those old bullets somewhere... Now, 35 years later, I'm still loading Nosler bullets in anticipation of hunting season! Cool.

Loaded question here on a Nosler forum - but when and why did you guys start using Nosler bullets for your hunting needs?

Guy

 

[JD338]

I started using Nosler Partitions in 1982. I loaded the 30 cal 150 gr PT in my 30-06 for an Antelope hunt in WY. That year I deer hunted here in MI with the same bullet and used it for years taking several WT deer and a Black bear.

The loads you are currently hand crafting will serve you well.

JD338

 

[BK]

I have used Nosler Partitions since before I started handloading (thank you Federal for the Premium line!) Outside of a fling with Speer Grand Slams in my Whelen, and Barnes X in my .25-06, I have pretty much used Partitions in everything else.

 

[Elkman]

In 1958 my dad killed a very nice Rosevelt elk after numerous shots using an 06 with Sierra bullets. After the postmortum we found two very nicely mushroomed bullets up against the near shoulder bone after failing to break the front shoulder This is the biggest bodied elk I have ever seen on the ground. Shortly after that we switched to Nosler Partitions and he switched to a .300 Weatherby mag. I have used Noslers ever since.
I killed my first elk in 1961 using 180 gr. Partition:grin: :grin:

 

[DaveA37]

I've been using Nosler partitions for many, many years and not certain exactly when I started reloading them myself. About the time that Winchester offered their new Model 88 lever action, I bought one in .308 cal. and first hunted deer in Wyoming and Montana and found that mule deer were a bit bigger than the white tails here in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Perhaps I needed a better bullet. That was about 50 years ago. After a few years of using factory ammo, I decided to give reloading a try and started with Sierra and Speer bullets as I recall. Nothing exciting back then but what did I know? Bullets were less expensive and I was on a pretty tight budget. Finally, somebody suggested I try the Nosler PT's and soon thereafter, I found a bullet that I really liked and continue using them to this day. ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it").

I now load PT's for use in my custom 300 Win Mag. and 300 H&H (a recent gift from my cousin). I have taken elk, bear, caribou, mule deer and whitetails, all with 150 and 165 grain PT's.

My mother would be smackin me with a broon for using this language but, "I AIN"T CHANGING A THING"

 

[DrMike]

Guy,

That is a serious fire power for that poor little black bear. So unaware, putting on fat and living the life of a bear. Best of luck to you. I hope you see lots of bear to permit a good selection. It still has to be one of my favourite hunts, looking for a nice black bear.

I started using Noslers about ten years after I started handloading. However, I was first loading for a 356 and using flat point Speer 220 grain bullets. When I purchased a couple of 7mm RM I first used TBBC bullets as they worked so well. Only gradually did I branch out and begin to use a variety of other bullets. There are probably more Nosler bullets on my shelves than bullets from any other single manufacturer.

 

[onesonek]

I started handloading in 1976, and the NP's was the first bullets I used. I do like experiment and try the "new stuff", but if I have any doubt's on how a bullet may perform,,,, I load Nosler Partitions. They work just as good in my Encore pistol loads as in my rifle loads.

Dave

 

[C.Smith]

I started with Balistic tips in a .270 13 years agos. I was new to reloading and guy at the counter sold those to me and they were accurate, so I was hooked. Oh yeah did a great job on the deer I shot that year.

Corey

 

[jmad_81]

Well about ten years ago I bought my first rifle (I was 15). A Winchester stainless classic in 270 win. I had been brought up shooting speer bullets because that is what dad, grandpa, and everybody else in the family shot (same reason I bought the 270 win). The first bullets I put down the barrel of that 270 were 150 PT golds. Took a few bucks and does with them as well as my first elk, a calf . Since then I have sold that gun and been moving up in calibers, all of them have shot Noslers of some sort or another. I have tried the 225 TSX out of my 338 on a cow elk and an unlucky yote lastnight, but I find myself moving back to the 225 AB.

If I hunt big game with it, it shoots an AccuBond!

 

[longwinters]

"Loaded question" good one.

I used some Pt's when buying Federal premiums quite a few years ago. Did not know anything about bullets, killed a couple of deer a year and it really did not matter what I used....everyting worked.

But then I started reloading and though I have several brands of bullets that shoot very well, everything I hunt with are Noslers. Whether 120 BT's out of the 7m08, 140 Accubonds out of the 270 or 280, or 165 PT's out of the 308, they all shoot under MOA and do the job on deer or antelope.

Long

 

[russ808]

First tried them in the early 90's. For about the last 10 years I have used only Noslers and have since then turned on a few other reloaders to Noslers also. One buddy refuses to shoot anything other then partitions out of his rifles.

 

[Bruce Mc]

I loaded my first nosler bullets, the 130 gr. .277 solid base, around 1977 and then the 162gr solid base in my 7mm rem mag.

 

[Greg Nolan]

Easy one,
Sept. 1994. My first California elk hunt. Odds to draw to are about the same as hitting the power ball lottery. I bought a Win mod. 70 in 300 Wby. for the either sex hunt. I loaded 180 gr. Hornady interlocks.
I shot a cow elk on the last day at about 50 yards with a full standing broadside target. I aimed for a sholulder shot to break her down like I'd read to. The biggest piece of metal I found was about half the size of my little fingernail. That was in her left (onside) hip. Luckily one of the pieces of shratnell did a Titanic slice along one of the heart chambers. (pure luck). I pulled all the interlocks and went to partitions. I never varied untill Accubonds came along.
By the way a 375 H&H is a big medium velocity bullet that will penetrate and kill without blowing up meat on a black bear like a smaller calibre magnum will. I love my 375 RUM with 260 accubonds and it's never dissapointed me with it's performance. Even at 30 yards on a cow elk. Deadly :twisted:

 

[SJB358]

I started using the 140gr PT in my 7mm Rem Mag back around 1993 or so. My first real handload for the rifle was a 160gr Barnes X bullet. I used that for a moose, caribou and a bunch of deer and other smallish game. When I was out of them, the guy at the local gun store, who kind of apprenticed me in handloading was cleaning out his cupboards and gave me some of the old cardboard boxes of 140gr PT's to try in my 7mm. They shot better than the 160gr X's and when I fired them into a bunch of 1/2" hardwood slats at 100 yards they had a great mushroom. I then used them right up until I joined the Marine Corps and now I use alot of Noslers. 150gr BT and PT in my 270WSM, 60gr PT in my 22-250, 100gr PT in my sons 243, and a bunch of others. I am kinda swayed alot by seconds. If I can get my hands on what I want, I usually buy a bunch. Can't never have enough bullets! I do remember alot of deer just disapearing when smacked with the 140gr PT in my 7mm Mag using H870! It was like a stick of dynamite to deer and yotes. Scotty

 

[Guy Miner]

Interesting, I realized that although I turned to Nosler decades ago for hunting bullets, I've shot far more Nosler competition bullets than hunting bullets... Thousands of .30 cal 155 & 168 grain Noslers have gone downrange through my .308 Win!

 

[Elkman]

God I feel old!!!!!!

 

[YoteSmoker]

I started using Nosler bullets back in I think '94 when I killed my first buck with a 165 ballistic tip that my dad and I reloaded with his rock chucker press. He first started loading Nosler Partitions in the late 70s using 100 grain Partitions for his 250-3000 and he was sold ever since. I since started loading my own rounds in 2005, with my dad's rockchucker, and primarily use Nosler Partititons and Accubonds for big game hunting although I do load Sierra, Berger, and Hornady for varmint hunting, depending on application and cartridges and use Barnes TSX for my 243 as well. When it comes to medium to big game, Nosler is hard to beat!

 

[Powerstroke]

Guy,

My shooting experience started when I was knee high to the ole grass-hopper. I grew up in a small town in the North West corern of Colorado - Population about 1800 or so....From the time I was about 8yrs old or so, my Dad & I would go to the local rifle range about every friday night. A small group 8 to 10 or so of us would get together and shoot 100yrd benchrest at night. They had lights right against the targets. Rem 700 Varmiters in .223 & .22-250 and thousands of 52gr Sierra MatchKings.

Obviously my Dad did all the reloading when I was that young, but mid teens when I finally got the go-ahead to start loading on my own, I absolutely had to try the "COOL" looking ORANGED TIPPED BULLETS. ( I knew nothing short of SMK's )
To my suprise, most loads of the B-tips shot as good as the SMK's - Need I say more ?? :lol:
Sure - the 40XB, 6PPC still use the green box, but everything else in the safe will generally see NOSERLS :wink: