drh1175

Mind you this is only my personal opinion and I think I have done a my share of hunting with my poor man's magnum (270), but I think Terminal Performance is more important than the boat tail. Punching paper give me a boat tail - taking animals give me a bullet that MIGHT not be quite as accurate but has MAXIMUM Terminal Performance.

I have settled on the 130 because of ballistics, it is quite a curve in fact sometime compare to a Remington 7mm mag shooting a 170 grain bullet you will see what I mean. I can quote you any thing off the top of my head it has been along time since I was really into that stuff but the information is available.

The Nosler will mushroom with a wider range of velocities than any of the other bullets including the Barnes. The 270 -130 is about as flat as you can get. I must admit I have never taken game at 400, one elk at 225 anda few whitetail at 100+ but that is about the extent of my long range shots.

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