I do not care for Ballistic tips for Elk sized game but I think they are the best deer bullet made. I have made good and bad shots using them and they always performed better than could hope for. Awesome exit wounds. Vital look like jello and massive amounts of trauma. Use them in a 30.06, 7 mm mag, .300 Win mag and .270.

Im so glad that this topic was brought up & replied to so swiftly. I had my 1st experience with the NBT this year & as i previously read it will be my last! I use a Rem m700 in 25-06 & i loaded 50 Win. standard brass with 54 grains of H-4831 & 100 grain nbt's. The 5 shot groups were so good that i had to reload another 50 just in case they worked well on deer. Well they work good alright, but if yer like me & hate to waste the meat, they suk!!! The bullet failed in my opinion, in 250 yds from muzzle to shoulder the bullet did'nt mushroom. It went in the front shoulder just as it left the case,when it hit bone it exploded, commencing to bruise this deer all the way down it's left side & never leavin the body,,,when i cut the deer up that night i fgound 6 different pieces of the bullet lodged anywhere & everywhere. So for deer size game im done with them. maybe i'll use these other 99 that were left on coyotes & groundhogs

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mike

The deer dies but the bullet failed? Hows that?

I haven't used them but from what I've seen I wouldn't use them on deer . Way to much damage for me . I started using Barnes X this year and recommend them over NBT's .

Would the weight of the ballistic tip have anything to do with how it performs on deer?

my son shot a doe at approx 125 yards. a 6mm rem 70 gr bt. doe ran 10 yards , fell , kicked a bit and soon died. blew a hole that would make you believe a 300 win mag was used. i now load the same bullet in his 243 win. i do prefer speer gran slams though and i like sierra bullets. so many bullets so little time.

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SShunter:yeah the deer died thank God i got a good shot! there was no blood trail to the deer at all, But if the deer would have been running & i might have pulled ahead towards the lung area,, who knows???? In my opinion if a bullet fails to mushroom,,,IT FAILS! no questions asked

Rem 700 a ballistic tip isnt meant to form a perfect mushroom,they are designed to violently explode expending all its energy inside the animal.They are not a controlled expansion bullet.IMO a deer isnt that hard to put down.Its just a matter of personal preference.Yeah sometimes it runs meat ,but they have never gone more than 40-50 yards even on marginal shots.Ill take a little meat loss if it means not losing the animal.

I have been killing deer with hand loaded BT bullets for the last 6 years in .308,.270 and 30-30 out of a 16" contender. I have shot them from 20 yards out to 180 yards and have yet to recover a bullet but never lost a deer with them. These are great deer rounds but I wouldn't use them for anything bigger. I like partitions for elk and bear.

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