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Not Impressed

dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
edited November 2005 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
With Nosler Balistic Silvertips that is! Loaded some 95 grainers for my sons .243 and since he hasn't had the chance to shoot anything I took his gun out and shot a doe. It was a quartering away shot and the deer went about 100 feet. That part didn't bother me but when I field dressed the deer I noticed the bullet passed through 5 ribs. Considering the 125 yard shot was taken from above and the angle the deer was standing it appears that the bullet hit the first rib and deflected upward and outward then when hitting the last rib deflected back in and across the top of the heart. Found the bullet jacket under the shoulder but no bullet. While the jacket showed expansion the small wound channel did not reflect it. Talk to a friend last night and he said he was not impressed with the ones he used either. It's only one experience but I have used bulk Remington SP's and had better results. Guess I'll have to see if the 150's in my 308 fair any better.
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  • panriderpanrider Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hunt elk, mule deer and antelope. I tried the nosler ballistic tips and am definitely not impressed. Seem to be very fragile bullets. Came to the conclusion that if I can not kill it with my 150 grain nosler partition loads, it can't be killed, period. I would hunt Grizzly with them.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I am not a fan of the Silver tips b/c of the coating that's on them, but I have had EXCELLENT results the Nosler BT's...very good penetration as well. That is all I use on deer.

    Eric
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  • richbugrichbug Member Posts: 3,650
    edited November -1
    Quartering away with a 243? The only shot I would have taken there would have been a head or neck. 243's aren't exactly known for their bone crunching ability. Still the bullet should have opened.

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  • john in jaxjohn in jax Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My hunting buddy has recorded numerous 1shot kills with his 7mm-08 Nosler balistic tips loaded by Georgia Arms.

    He's got no compaints at all about the bullet or the round, as a matter of fact it is hard to get him to quit bragging on it.
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  • The Load RoomThe Load Room Member Posts: 501 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by panrider
    I hunt elk, mule deer and antelope. I tried the nosler ballistic tips and am definitely not impressed. Seem to be very fragile bullets. Came to the conclusion that if I can not kill it with my 150 grain nosler partition loads, it can't be killed, period. I would hunt Grizzly with them.

    panrider please contact me through e-mail I have a question for ya, thanx TLR
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the jacket shed the core and as is the case with balistic tips, the core fragmented and probably put many small holes in the organs. I have found quite a few jackets with bases from the balistic tips. I have every faith in them and have ALWAYS recoverd my game. They fly like match bullets and kill like lightning.

    and 33yds after a quatering shot with a frangible bullet is NOT what I would call bullet failure.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
    Got Balistics?
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  • mrbrucemrbruce Member Posts: 3,374
    edited November -1
    I shoot 140 grain Ballistic Tips out of a 16" .284 XP-100 and have shot lots, and lots of critters, big and small, and never had a problem, ever...!!
    Double lunged a lot of small deer with the 95 gr BT in a 6mmAI, and no problem there either....also use the 75gr Amax (close to a BT) in a 22/6mmAI and still no problems....
    But then I never tried to put one from one end to the other end either.

    Gun control is hitting what your aiming at.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have run the balistic tip from stem to stern on a whitetail and it will work. The jacket will be found somewhere mid way to rear of the body. The jacket will be found without the core and only containing the base, but the harvest will be lightning quick unless you hit the animal at 50yds or less.

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
    Got Balistics?
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