RE: Accubond vs Partition
Haven' t been around here for a little while but I do have a good report on using Accubond bullets. We hunted the secound rifle season (elk & muledeer) in Co, Accubonds accounted for 4 animals.
We were shooting the 200g out of a custom 300ultramag, 3150fps. My son shot his muledeer at 240 yards, quartering away walking up a ridge. Bullet entered just in front of the hindquarters, exited out the neck on the offside. two ribs were totaly destroyed on the entrance, deer walked a few steps and keeled over. Second animnal he shot was a 5X5 bull that another hunter in our crew had hit twice in the rump with a .338Win Mag. Steve was aiming at the shoulders, hit the running bull in the neck (150 yard shot). Needless to say the bull' s run was finished! Spine was destroyed. I took my muledeer, again quartering away, a tad over 100 yards with the same rifle. Entrance was just in front of hindquarters, exited just behind front shoulder. I caught the last two ribs on the entrance, the ribs were disintigrated to the size of my fist. Exit wound also destroyed two ribs in same manner. One lung had a 7/16" hole thru it, lots of hydroshock damage in chest cavity. Steve also took a nice cow, shot was aprox 150 yards, running. He hit the cow just behind the front shoulders, thru the spine. Entrance wound was the size of a golf ball, exit was the size of a baseball. I was a little aprehensive about using the Accubonds on elk, after having sectioned a bullet to have a look at the jacket construction. I' ll use the Accubonds in the future, their more accurate than the partition golds I' ve been shooting[:-]