musketman59

I am totally predjudice so take all of this with a grain of salt... IMO the Nosler partition is a great bullet for elk. I use the .458/300 grain Nosler Partition Protected Point. I shoot it with a 120 grains of T7-2f which would work very well for you since you can not use a 209 ignition system.

The .458 is a true rifle bullet made for a 45-70/120 rifle.

I copied this post from another thread, so if you have already seen it I appolgize

I shoot boards, jugs of water, clay dirt banks, and even paper but the real proof is in the results...

This was with a .458/300 grain Nosler...



More of the story....








I really like this one...



Here is anothe one...



It is not a great bull but it is a nice one....



And there are a lot of these little guys....







Almost forgot the bullet information..... These are the only 2 Noslers I have ever recovered from shooting an animal - most are always a complete pass thru.





Believe me - Noslers work here in Idaho - Africa - Alaska - Canada and where ever else you might use it....

With all that said - I am actually going to try another bullet this year... Lehigh, a manufacturing plant, in PA is producing a new style hollow point brass bullet, that uses a completly different theory of operation for harvest. I used one of these bullets last season during deer season and it worked awesome but I have to admit the shot I made I could have probably made with any bullet and it would have dropped the buck on the spot.

Here is a picture with some bullet profile comparisons...