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Accubond Performance!
I recently shot a large WY bull elk and recovered the bullet on the opposite side shoulder just under the skin. I was shooting the 160gr Nosler Accubond out of my .280 Rem at 2750 f.p.s.. The shot was 325 yards, the bull traveled less than fifty yards after the hit.The recovered bullet weighed 121.6 gr. for 76% weight retention, which I consider very good. The accuracy and performance of the Accubonds have been great for me.
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Nice. I shot an elk at 683 yds but the darn Accubonds just passed through...after hammering him hard! Same with the muley at 438 yds. Another guy using my rifle finally did manage to take a shot that did not exit, 200 yd Texas heart shot (thought he was previously wounded is the only reason he took that shot) liquified everything from a back ham to the front of the chest. Unfortunately they could not find the bullet though it did not exit.
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Geez db - ya went and got that bullet all dirty. I love the accuracy of the accubonds in my 325WSM. But I've yet to drop the hammer on anything with it to see how it performs. I'm sure it will do well.
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I've never recovered one from any whitetail I've shot....nothing over a little over 100 yds. But, then again, I'm mostly a neck shot guy when I have the chance... which is usually. Chest shots I have taken resulted in clean pass-thrus. Quarter-sized exit holes usually. Not much tracking involved when you can see the deer piled up a few yards away....
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congrats on the bull. it sounds to me that the bullet performed very well. i would be real happy with it's performance.
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My dad shot a doe with a factory loaded (Federal) Accubond in 7mm Remington Magnum. Hit the doe broadside ad 25 yards. It ran about 75-100 yards and dropped. No exitand no blood. Followed the tracks in the snow and no blood. Still scratching my head on that one.
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ORIGINAL: BarnesX.308 My dad shot a doe with a factory loaded (Federal) Accubond in 7mm Remington Magnum. Hit the doe broadside ad 25 yards. It ran about 75-100 yards and dropped. No exitand no blood. Followed the tracks in the snow and no blood. Still scratching my head on that one.
7 Rem. mag. at 25 yards= quite high velocity at impact= more bullet expansion = less penetration = no exit wound = very little or no blood loss. DM |
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LOL 7mag at 25 yards would seem to be about like stepping on the tracks as the train came though.
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Why are you scratching your head on that one? 7 Rem. mag. at 25 yards= quite high velocity at impact= more bullet expansion = less penetration = no exit wound = very little or no blood loss. DM |
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ORIGINAL: BarnesX.308 Why are you scratching your head on that one? 7 Rem. mag. at 25 yards= quite high velocity at impact= more bullet expansion = less penetration = no exit wound = very little or no blood loss. DM DM |
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Brother-in-law got his bull this year with a 140g 270 WSM and took 1 shot. Bullet hit quartering from the rear to the front and stopped inside the rib cage. I didn't see him clean it out but sounds like the insides were a mess.
My wife got her nice 3x3 muley on Sunday with 1 shot, same bullet. Hit one of the rear ribs and made a fist size hole (strange). The bullet when through the liver and a lung and exited through the rear portion of the front shoulder (not recovered). I like them a lot and will keep using them until I see something that does a much better job. Not so hard as a Scirocco so they do expand a fair amount, which in my book is good to dump that energy into the animal and not the dirt behind it. |
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Performance appears adequate, but I would comment that the bullet must have been down to 2200 FPS or less at 325 yards if it left the muzzle at 2750. That is a long way down range!
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ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner its my "go to" bullet in my 7mm Allen mag, last time out shot a 5" group at 836 yards, have never recovered one yet, from whitetails from 375-822 yards. RR |
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ORIGINAL: eldeguello ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner its my "go to" bullet in my 7mm Allen mag, last time out shot a 5" group at 836 yards, have never recovered one yet, from whitetails from 375-822 yards. RR |
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RR I ike that positive mindset...it applies to everything.
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ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner ORIGINAL: mossy33oak ORIGINAL: eldeguello ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner its my "go to" bullet in my 7mm Allen mag, last time out shot a 5" group at 836 yards, have never recovered one yet, from whitetails from 375-822 yards. RR Yep, but you would be surprised at the avid hunters who have no idea what a properly tuned and properly set up modern rifle can do. it takes basic knoledge of ballistics, and some cash but anyone who sets they're mind to it can hit what they aim at at 750 yards. once you convince yourself it ain't that far the rest isn't hard. RR |
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last year I shot a nice 5x5 whitetail from the hip as It ran past me, 7 yards away. I was using a 140 grain Accubond at 3000 fps from my 7 mag, My bullet went in just on the bottom side of the vertabres and out the other side ,small in and smal hole out and one very dead deer about 15 yds away.This year I bumped it up to 3125, this load has taken 9 deer, 5 by me, with outstanding performance so far this fall.
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ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner LOL eldeguello, it isn't that hard, if you've done everything right ya just put the "x" on them. the one at 375 was a head shot though, laying in the nest, head curled up along her side, the 160 entered just below the eye, exited same place on the offside, reentered behind the shoulder, exited the other side. The hardest part is accepting that 50% of the deer you see that you normaly would take will walk off without you getting a shot, or just disapear from view, if they are against a timbered ridge. from 600 back its pretty simple, just takes about 5 minutes to get set up to shoot. RR Bull was shot with a 150-grain Sierra flatbnase spitzer @ 3370 FPS from the 308 Norma Magnum. Bullet hit him just in front of his right eye. Bull dressed out about 400 pounds...... |
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ORIGINAL: eldeguello Bullet hit him just in front of his right eye. Bull dressed out about 400 pounds...... |
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ORIGINAL: mossy33oak ORIGINAL: eldeguello Bullet hit him just in front of his right eye. Bull dressed out about 400 pounds...... Mike |
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I've had great success with the 110gr Accubond from my Rem 25.06. It's accuracy is excellent as well as it's performance on deer. Mike
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ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner I fired 2 accubonds this week, 1 110 grainer from my 25 wssm AR15, hit dead center of a quartering away does shoulder, exited out the front of the neck, bang/flop the other was from my 7mm Allen ata 4.5 yo140 pound buck (maybe) never in my life have I saw the life sucked out of an animal like a 160 accubond hitting them at 3050 fps impact velocity ,the buck was quartering away at 307 yards, bullet struck behind the shoulder, exited the offside base of the neck. He went in the air, flipped over landed on his back and never as much as quivered |
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still should have bled though
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ORIGINAL: jeepkid ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner I fired 2 accubonds this week, 1 110 grainer from my 25 wssm AR15, hit dead center of a quartering away does shoulder, exited out the front of the neck, bang/flop the other was from my 7mm Allen ata 4.5 yo140 pound buck (maybe) never in my life have I saw the life sucked out of an animal like a 160 accubond hitting them at 3050 fps impact velocity ,the buck was quartering away at 307 yards, bullet struck behind the shoulder, exited the offside base of the neck. He went in the air, flipped over landed on his back and never as much as quivered  .... Probably saw him setting up and thought "Oh, sh*t...." |
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