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what type of bullets do you most prefer to hunt with?

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Nosler Partitions

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NOSLER BALLISTIC TIPS

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Ballistic tips for deer sized game,tsx for larger game.

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Hornady SST's.

Winchester AccuBonds.

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Remington 165 Grain Boattails. Acutips. Haven't had a deer run very far yet. Heres my boy that these bullits brought down this year as well as three nice 150 lbs does

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Way to go! Good Job. Congrat's!

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I use 150 grain Ballistic tips in the ole '06

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Grunt, are you allowed to hunt Pine Ridge Reservation?

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Negitive. I haven't hunted in South Dakota. Been hunting up in Central Minnesota with the brother in law and on his families land. Some real nice bucks have been taken out of there. Really nice. I think the biggest was around a 180 class deer.

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Please excuse the following stupid question. I was raised to only hunt with hollow points.

What do you mean by ballistic points.?
For Christmas I was given 2 new types of 30-30- bullets .Are they any good?

1st box are Remington Express Core-lokt 150 grain

2nd box are Winchester Power Point 150 grain
Thanks for being patient with me,
CHuck7

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A Ballistic Tip is sort of like a hollow point with a little plastic, pointed tip inserted in the hole of the hollow point. They expand quite rapidly.


Yes, the 30-30 shells you got are good.

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I prefer the Winchester Supreme silver Ballistic tips.

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Chuck, you're not loading the magazine withthese, are you? I useone these for my first shotin the chamber and the rest of the magazine with Flat Nose!

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I've been loading all Hollow Points partner for the deer. Strut told me when hog hunting the Core Lokt are probably better for pnetration.
Chuck

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Tubular Magazine Cautions
One of the "drawbacks" in using the lever action rifle with a tubular magazine is that one cannot use spire-pointed bullets. The problem, of course, is that a pointed bullet pressing against the primer of the cartridge ahead of it could cause a discharge in the magazine as the gun recoils. This caution also extends to round-nosed bullets in heavy recoiling rifles such as the .45-70.

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So Reb..are you saying I should only fire flat nosed Hollow points?
Thanks
C7

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mainly Crossbow but for my ML I use Hornadys SST lock and load sabot.

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hey gys thanx for the comments on this. ithought i was the only die hard ballistic tip fan. glad to know that alot more of my fellow hunters go with the same bullets that i do

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As long as they are flat nose loaded in the magazine, you can chamber any style bullet for your first shot! Do a research on the net about loading rifles withtubular magazines!;)

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Reb,
Now that you mentioned it, I did notice the power points jamming at the range. When I returned to the flat nosed Hollow Points they stopped jamming.

I also was shooting it sand bagged with scope. The flat nosed had the better groups by far. I haven't shot the Core lokt s yet.

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Nosler CT Failsafe 30 cal all the way!!

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180 grain ballistic tips

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In dense foliage I like a heavy, round nose bullet like the Core Lokt in 180 to 200 gr. For long range open country or power line shots I like the Spitzer or SST bullets in 150 to 165 gr.

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Contrary to what many people believe,tests have proven thatlower velocityround nosed bullets are effected just as much as higher velocity pointed bullets when they strike branches or other obstacles.
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CT Nosler partition gold or Norma Oryx.

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I have always been partial to Nosler offerings, they just plain get er done! For deer sized,I to like the NBT but am going to toy with the Accubond this off season some more. For the bigger stuff like moose and elk my old standbyis the Partition. However after this fall I am growing fond of the Barnes TSX for this application.

I have dambled with numerous but always hold Noslers as the benchmark for my hunting bullets.

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stubble, please post this study if you can find it. I would be very interested in reading this report on how they tested and arrived at this synopsis.
Thanks, Chuck

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I cant give you the exact source here sniper151 but I have read several articles in hunting magazines regarding the better twig resistance of pointed fast bullets compared to slow and blunt. The method used in these cases were the following. They put twigsnext each toother and fired into the wall then measuredhow much and how large a percentage that deflected or tipped over.
Sorry that I cant give you more specs.

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I have seen at least three tests in different hunting magazines.One was in petersons hunting but I don't remember which issue.Wooden dowels of various sizes were used in one test and actual branches were used in a couple of others.In one test the two bullets that faired best were a 250gr .338" pointed bullet fired out of a 338win mag,and a 55gr .224" bullet fired out of a 22-250.The larger diameter flat points and round points did not do as well despite being heavier and being fired at lower velocities.The conclusion of all of the tests was that the idea of a brush bullet is a myth.

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Speer Spitzer HotCors

Nosler AccuBonds

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Hornady 270 150 grNBTs

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hey skeeteryou were talking about using the accubond by nosler. I have used the scirocco bonded bullets by swift and the accubond is the same exact kind of bullet. both have a polymer tip and have a bonded core for deeper penetration and weight retention. They will work well on larger sized game cause i used them on deer and the bullets would completely pass through a deer sized animal.

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The interbond,accubond and scirocco are all the same basic design but their are differences.The accubonds seem to expand slightly less and penetrate slightly more than the other two.The sciroccos seem to retain slightly more weight butresult ina great deal more copper fouling in the rifles that I have tried them in.

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Sierra Gamekings that I handload in .270.

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I went back to the Winchester 150 grain power tips.

I tried fusion's at the begining of the year. They were all over the place.

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hornady 140 grain boat tails...short range they blow out the big hole; long range they have a flat trajectory and are Speedy Gonzalas on steroids. They find their home in the gun invented for deer, the 270.

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I’ve used the Nosler Accubond for this past season...

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Federal Premium Seirra Game King sp bt