I am sure that either of these bullets will work equally well. I see no reason that nosler would put out a bullet inferior to the Partition and I would trust any product they put thier name on. Thats not blind loyalty, it is rather a reflection of the perfect expierence I have had with the Partition. I do load other bullets because I share the train of thought of some experts that claim the pemium bullets often fall shor of great performance on deer size game. For bigger or tougher critters I have complete faith in the Partition and the Barnes X bullets. The X bullets have performed great for me in the lighter weight per caliber on deer. For example I might use the 120 grain partition in 25 caliber but drop down to the 100 or even 90 grain bullet in The X for the same game. I always use at least one weight lighter with the Barnes X.

I picked up some .338 x bullets at a going out of business sale today, look interesting. Don' t think I' ll get to use them this year, but maybe next.

eldeguello, I got them thru MidwayUSA. They were in the September flyer on sale for under $20 for 50.

Firsttime!! Thanks for the info!!

I would say the partition. I have shot 16 whitetails with a 160 gr. partition in my 7mm Rem Mag. (meager to your .338) and all but three ran off and had to be trailed. I never lost even one. I shoot the Whitetails through ribs to lessen the shoulder distruction associated with todays hard hitting fire arms. There has never been a problem with penetration, all complete pass through' s even at 400 and 500 yards. I believe that the partition would be alot better for big game like Elk due to the performance that it does on whitetails and it' s solid base and high weight retension.

Good hunting.

Unfortunately, I have nothing to report. Didn' t get a shot at an Elk in Colorado. Good trip and great time, just uncooperative weather and not enough hunters to move the elk. Anyway, may try the .338 on whitetail, but think it' s way to big. More likely to stick to the .270. Whitetail rifle season opens in one week on Saturday.

First, sorry to hear no shot at an elk but I am glad you had a good time and great experience.

Brian

Long story short. I ended up taking the .338 w/ the accubonds out the second day of white-tail season here in MN. First day I had to pass a couple of shots b/c I didn' t have the confidence that the .270 could get through the brush. Anyway, took a doe and small buck at about 40-50 yards w/ the .338. To much gun, but ya just can' t guess where they will be. Anyway the Tikka performed flawlessly. Both shots behind the should and no lungs left. Both deer went 75 yards in opposite directions. Enterence wounds were large and exits, huge. I don' t think the bullet really got to expand fully b/c neither deer seemed to flinch and ran off as if not hit. I will be ordering some for the .270 and .30-06.

Hey, firsttime! I got a chance to shoot an elk in CO probably at the same time you were there! Don' t feel too bad about not getting one! I hunted elk for almost 30 years (off and on) before I got my first one! They say success was poor in Oct. this year, due to the weather being too warm. The one I got was in DEEP DARK TIMBER, in the White River N.F. near Sleepy Cat, (hunted out of Meeker) at about 9500 feet elevation. DON' T GIVE UP!!

This elk was a youngish 5X4 bull of about 700 pounds. Shot it at about 40 yards. Used a 7mm Rem. Mag., with a handloaded 175-grain Nosler Partition, MV 3050 FPS. The bull was quartering toward me, shot was high at the point of the left shoulder where the neck joins the body. Bull dropped as if struck by lightning! and never even twitched after the shot. He went down so fast he was not visible after recovering from the recoil! Thought I had missed! Two bulls with him fled the scene. I saw them and thought one was him! When I went to look for blood, there he was lying behind a log! Good thing I was using a single-shot, and didn' t take another shot at the one running away! No exit wound, never found the entrance wound or the bullet! Didn' t look too hard for the bullet, as we quartered the thing, took the head, quarters and tenderloins and packed out about 2 miles to the truck. It was downhill all the way, but tough going nontheless!!

Saw three other bulls the next day, but my hunting buddy was on the wrong side of the oak brush that morning, and, of course, my hunting was over, so I had no gun!!

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[:-]