Accubond?
 

Are Nosler Accubond good elk rounds?

....Yup....

Never shot a elk with one, but have killed several deer with them out of my 300 win mag and 7mm rem mag. I really like the accubond.

The Accubond is a great bullet. Accurate and deadly.

Very good bullet. Would handle an elk with no problem.

I am sure this bullet will be an excellent choice. I have taken 25 plus deer with my .300 WSM and a 150 gr. Accubond and I have never recovered a bullet. I like this bullet because I always have two holes in my deer to make a good blood trail if the deer leaves the scene. It has excellent weight retention. For elk I think I would use the 180 grain bullet in a .30 caliber weapon.

Accubonds are a very solid bullet to use on any animal I have used them in 6.5mm 7mm 30 Cal and 338 Cal and have had no problems taking anything from pronghorn to elk all perform flawlessly and all came out backside even a 260 Remington with 140 grain through the chest

Accubond?
 

Used Winchester Supreme 160 grain Accubonds on two cow elk. One broadside one straight-on, did a great job on both. 7mm Rem Mag.

new to the huntingnet forum and hope to receive some good input in the near future. Accubonds? i just bought a 300 rem. ultra mag. recently and loaded up some 200 grain AB's. Had a freek incident with a 5 pt bull. He walked out in front of me at 11 yards perfectly broadside. Pulled the trigger right behind the shoulder and he went 60 yards and was dead. Here's the kicker, i found the bullet up against the hide on the opposite side flank. must have hit something on the way in. The bullet was a perfect mushroom and looked to be all in tact. We'll see what they do to my bull this coming season.

Last fall I took a medium size cow elk at around 75 yards with a Winchester factory load using a 140 gr Accubond out of my .270. She was slightly quartered away and the bullet entered just behind the leg, disintegrated the top of the heart, then broke the front leg on the off side and exited. She went another 40 yards and piled up.

I used factory ammo because the rifle was new just before hunting season and I didn't have time to work up a load. Since then, I have been loading the same bullet at 2950 FPS average which closely approximates the Winchester factory loading.

I also read several forums for information on Accubonds and the vast majority of posters who have taken game with them recommend them.

I use almost exclusively Nosler bullets...growing up just down the street from their factory made it the hometown and obvious choice. That being said, after about 30 years of hunting and reloading I have never had a bad experience with Noslers...the AB is my new favorite for most of my whitetail hunts. Currently using 140g AB's in my 270 WSM and my backup 270 WIN...for Elk I just loaded up some 150g AB's for my 308 (I'd prefer to shoot 180's but my Elk rifle...an older Savage 99 in 308...just doesn't like anything heavier than 165's...shot 165 Partitions for years so will now try the 150 AB's this season).

What I have found from the accubonds is at closer range they do exactly as you say. At first impression they seem to be too rapid on expansion and not have the deep penetration as some other hunting bullets for exiting. But in truth they are a great medium to long range bullet. They do exactly what a bullet should do in most cases at close range. Expand to optimal size and penetrate 16" plus inches. That's all the kinetic energy your going to get out of a bullet. Pass through's are wasted energy. At longer ranges they slow down expansion and tend to penetrate deeper as do most well constructed hunting bullets do. From most of the recovered bullets from elk they have done what they should and caused lots of tissue damage.

If they had the Ogive of a Speer boattail and the plastic tip their BC would be almost unbeatable as a hunting round for long range. They are pretty close to begin with.

got a 5X5 bull Elk with my 270 winchester at 90 yards with 140gr Accubonds.
Shoot in the chest and bullet made a complete pass thru. Ran about 50 yrds
and died. Velocity was about 3077fps at 10 yards.

Ummm...they do have the poly tip...

http://www.nosler.com/bullets/accubond.aspx

Work great.

I love the AB's. Works GREAT on moose and bear out of my 375 RUM. I'm shooting 260AB's with 94grs of H4350.