Really wasn't planning on trying the 140 accubonds. My take on accubonds is they hold around 90% of thier weight so they are a heavy game bullet. I am loading 160s for my upcoming moose hunt. For the lighter stuff my Sako thrives on 150 Btips and have killed a couple of caribou with them so far with good results. I will also be using them on an Antelope hunt in October. If the 160 perform good on game they will likely become the heavy load of choice with my 7mm and I figure the 150 btips should handle everything else. Congrats on your Tikka, they are a great rifle. I originally wanted a 7mmWSM but they took too long getting them to market up here in Canada and I just did not have the patience to wait. Really not complaining so far about my choice. I used a .338 win mag for years on moose but wanted to get rid of the muzzlebreak it had while I still have some hearing left. That 7mm is a nice round to shoot. Should prove to be very versatile. Moose are the only critters that can test a rifle up here as our deer hunting is all in thick bush up close. We'll just have to see how she does.

TerryM,

Not to rain on your parade so to speak, but more to inform you so you don't become disappointed in the performance of the accubonds; they are designed to perform like a partition with weight retention in the 60-70% range. I have shot quite a few of them into different mediums (no animals yet[:@]), but they have all stayed right around 60 - 65%.
Also, Jamison did a nice write up on them in the June "Shooting Times" and Petersons Hunting (same article basically).

Looks like a great bullet. I am excited to stick one through an elk.

Interesting. Well, I am pretty well committed to them for my moose hunt this year as I just don't have the time to work up a load with partitions. But if you feel comfortable shooting an elk with them then a moose should be no problem either. I thought I read some advertisement where they claimed high weight retention? Unfortunately there does not seem to be alot of field (dead game) reports yet on them.

That is a heck of a difference, from 90% weight retention, down to 60%. I expect Nosler to hype the Accubond a little, but not that much. Anything documenting the 60% performance?

I just checked the Nosler website and I must have been misunderstood something I read somewhere. They do in fact describe them as @60% only. Partitions also always shed the nose and end up close to 60% weight retention in my experience. I will give them a try and see what happens. That is if I bump into a bull moose next month.

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JD338,
Even when I hunted with a .338 I never took a shoulder shot. I find that can almost write off both shoulders with a shoulder shot. Usually shoot behind the shoulder if at all possible. Moose meat is too good to waste!

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TerryM, Have you shoot that load over a chronograph yet? I'm shooting 75.0 grains of R22 using 160 gr Accubonds in my 7mm STW. This load acheives around 3300 FPS and 1" groups @ 100 yards. Hopefully I can test their performance in a elk and mule deer. Good Luck this fall.

I have been using the accubonds since I could get my hands on them. A little over a year now. I have been an avid fan of Nosler for 25 yrs. I read recently that the accubond was designed to preform like a partition and loose 25-40% of the frontal area. The reasoning is that if too much of the bullet is retained the the mushroom gets so large it won't penatrate deep enough. I have heard that this happens with Hornady Interbonds. So if the nose is shed the diameter stays small enough to do the job. And it does do the job. Took a mature 3X4 Idaho Mulie with the 160 grain last Oct. Hit him through the chest quartering away at about 200yds. The bullet took out a rib on the near side then the heart, blowing through another rib on the far side leaving a 2" dia. hole to bleed through. He immediately went down, tumbling 25yrds down hill DOA. I was impressed! No bullet recovery though it ended up somewhere across the canyon.
The load I use is 64.5 gns of RL22, Rem case, CCI 250 primer. Clocks an ave muzzle speed of 3025 through my Chrony. I get a .75" group at 100 yrds.
This should work well on elk but I use a 338 winnie for that job with barnes X bullets.