Once upon a time i had a steady supply of them juice jugs. I started catching my bullets because i never got a chance to see how they looked when they killed deer. Then i settled on a standard of 6 water filled jugs, and phone book stack. This was used to compare about 9 different bullets. All bullets were shot from about 50', with 105g of BH powder. Several bullets such as the 300g XTP, 300g Deep Curl, 270g Deep Curl, 275g Parker BE were caught in the jugs. If i recall correctly the Deep Curls were found in the third or fourth jug. The XTP was found in the second or third jug. The Parker was found on the ground behind the fourth jug.

Shooting the different bullets into the same jug configuration seemed to provide a reasonable comparison of how a bullet performs.

Here is a VIDEO of the Barnes 290g TEZ. This bullet ended up in the phone book stack. Good penetration 'eh?

Here is a video of the 300g Nosler Partition shot at the same set. This bullet was found buried in the phone book stack.

A fella named Harry sent me some conical bullet to shoot at the jug set. He suggested the 440g bullet be shot at 1450 fps so to have the same energy as the various 300g bullets pushed by 105g. The load behind Harry' bullet ended up about 90g BH. At the time of this test, there were only 5 jug, and no more were/are available. This conical was/is the only other bullet besides the Nosler to knock over all the jugs and the phone book stack. Here is the video of Harry' conical. Now that is fun to watch!! This bullet was found buried in the phone books about 2".


Our son hunted elk with me several years, maybe 35. We used a few different rifles to kill them elk with. He used a 6mm, 7mm, 30-30, 338 Weatherby, 458 Winchester, and finally nowaday a 350 remington. He grew tired of them hard kicking magnums. Myself, i used the 6mm before he did to prove to myself, it would kill elk. It did about 4 times for me using a 100g partition. I didn't want him to start out with a hard recoiling gun. My favorite elk rifle was a 358 Winchester. I had it built short and light; 19" barrel. We both use the 225g Nosler Partition in our elk rifle. It is about impossible for me to know for sure, but i kinda sorta think between us we killed maybe 30 elk with that 225g partition. Yup, i think the 300g 45 caliber Nosler Partition would be an excellent bullet to kill elk with. The boy killed a grizzly with a 250g Nosler Partition out of his 350 Remington.