Recovered E-tip

[Alderman]

150 grain E-tip out of a 280.
Hit deer going away high to the left of the spine at about 50 yards.
Slanted in to destroy 12-14" of spine and was found nearly 1/2 way toward the front.
Pleasantly surprised to discover not a lot of meat damage.

After a trip through the ultrasonic and some compressed air, the bullet weighed 149.2 grains. There was still a little debris under a couple of the petals but I wouldn't think more than .2 or .3 grains at the most.
Pics aren't the best.

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[kraky1]

When you see all that shank it make me wonder why they don't offer lighter wt bullets....like a 120 in 7mm, 110 in 270, 130 in 308. They'd make a great match to the 308 class cartridges. Just saying...lol!

 

[DrMike]

Great performance. It is pretty much what I've witnessed on the few bullets I recovered from moose and elk.

 

[Guy Miner]

Impressive! Hopefully the backstraps weren't too banged up by that hit?

And yes, a lighter-faster E-Tip might be a real good idea...

Guy

 

[SJB358]

Impressive! Hopefully the backstraps weren't too banged up by that hit?

And yes, a lighter-faster E-Tip might be a real good idea...

Guy

For sure... that bullet looks like it'll go deep...

What was the start speed?

Cool recovery!

 

[JD338]

Nice recovery on a deep penetrating bullet.

JD338

 

[Alderman]

I'm thinking with 48 grains of IMR 4350 it is popping out of the barrel at around 2500. Meat damage was minimal, just a bit on one end of the blackstrap on the left side.


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[SJB358]

I'm thinking with 48 grains of IMR 4350 it is popping out of the barrel at around 2500. Meat damage was minimal, just a bit on one end of the blackstrap on the left side.


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Sounds like a good meat getting load. Seems like it expanded pretty decently at that speed as well.

 

[desertcj]

A 120gr 7mm e-tip would be nice. A 100gr 7mm would be awesome!

 

[NWBlacktail]

I'm wanting to go the other way. I'm loading my 280ai with 168 grain Barns LRX and getting 2900 fps.

A lighter bullet would fade too quickly past a few hundred yards. Yea, most big game is taken within a couple hundred yards... but I still want the higher ballistic coefficient bullets. I stay above 1800 fps out just past 700 yards.

anyway, just my point of view.

 

[Thebear_78]

Aside from an energy advantage and slight wind drift advantage (5" @ 500 yards) I could be pretty happy with the lighter mono bullet in your 280 ai

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[NWBlacktail]

:mrgreen:

Ok, fair enough. Looks pretty negligible between the 120 and 168. Probably like every other ballistics debate, not much of it really matters when you lay those cross hairs on that elk and the animal drops either way.

cheers.

 

[mwess1113]

I bought a box of the 140 E-tips to try in my .280. Trying to figure out what powder to use. We shall see.


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