Nosler accubond performance

[bomberodevil]

Oh my, read my reply above.
It was my brother in law who shot the elk, out one behind the shoulder six inches up from bottom of the ribs. Elk walked into some bush and laid down to die, when he got to it it was still dying so he finished it with a head shot

You posted that while I was writing my question, I didn't see it. I know I didn't see anything in your initial post. Taking a finishing shot makes a little more sense. Sounds like the bullet did it's job.

 

[LoneTraveler]

Was the shot aimed at the head?

The dent and pushed in, Sort of flattened area, On the side of the bullet makes me wonder if the bullet did not hit something ??? Between the muzzle of the rifle and contact with the animals skull. It looks like the bullet was angled at entry maybe started to penetrate and basically broke the nose off the bullet as it penetrated the skull.

A small limb, Twig, or even a Honey Suckle vine can throw a bullet out of balance and the bullet will not hit point on, The manufacture designed the bullet to perform proper when it hits point on as designed.

 

[CHAGA50]

Wanted everyone's thoughts on this bullet?
It's a 140gr accubond from a 270
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from an elk skull at 40yds. Not what I expected personally

If you shot a cow elk this would explain everything , females are often very thick headed , Nothing gets inside very easily

 

[Craveman85]

I used accubonds in my 260 for one season. 140s loaded at 2750fps. Shot one deer at 30 yards through the top of the heart. It walked about 10 yards squirting blood out both sides however it looked like someone pushed an arrow with a field point through it. No expansion at all. No meat damage either though. Later that season I shot an 8 point through the same spot at 40 yards. If it hadn't snowed before I shot him it would have been a hard deer to find. This one made it almost 300 yards through thick brush with only an occasional drop of blood. I followed his tracks in the snow and was able to find him. This bullet also penciled through with no expansion. Again also no meat damage which is a plus. Not sure if I got a bad batch but I won't be using them in the 260 again. I use partitions in my 375h&h and love them. Really wanted to try the accubonds in that but I'm worried I might have similar results.

 

[bdyal1972]

Samples of one are difficult when it comes to drawing conclusions.
My Wife hunts with a 6.5x55 and a 6.5CM, both using a 140 Nos. Part. within 100 fps of each other. She has shot 2 young bull Elk, in both case the bullet penetrated both shoulders and exited, also with good terminal performance. She has done the same with several Deer but she shot one AR Whitetail that was not big at all, angling from back of the ribs to the offside shoulder and the bullet did not exit at all. I have no idea why but I do know strange things happen.
Concerning the .270 Accubond, I used that bullet on 10-12 head of Big Game with really good results but I will confess I did not shoot a Elk in the skull, or an Elk at all with that bullet. I believe it is a very good bullet.
I hope some day we have a bullet that expands at all useful velocities, Penetrates the same every time, with a good BC and very accurate, EVERY TIME. I don't know if we are there, I see new stuff like the TLR and wonder & I am thankful that the bullet companies keep trying!

EVERYTHING YOU ASK FOR IS IN THE BARNES X BULLET, FLAT BASE...

YES THE BC SUCKS

WITHIN 500 YOU AND YOUR PREY WONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!!!

 

[bdyal1972]

If you shot a cow elk this would explain everything , females are often very thick headed , Nothing gets inside very easily

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[RD57]

IME the Nosler AB is a fine bullet, I'm amazed that it was even recovered. In the Army I've seen Sierra HPBTs recovered that looked like that after striking hard objects (and water) and then penetrating the intended target ... very peculiar. At least the animal didn't struggle with you about ownership and there is meat in the freezer. Ha!

 

[JASmith]

Looks to me it turned backwards and broke off the mushroom. In my experience the tipped bullets open very quickly. You can see it is flattened. A sure indicator it tumbled.

I've seen similar deformation when low velocity bullets hit water. They tumbled also.

BTW -- the bullet was designed to take a lot of abuse and it appears to have done its job!

 

[Ga6570]

Wanted everyone's thoughts on this bullet?
It's a 140gr accubond from a 270
View attachment 214909
from an elk skull at 40yds. Not what I expected personally

At 40yards that's exactly what I'd expect. Bullet going too fast and impacting a hard surface - doesn't allow it to give a nice mushroom like hitting soft tissue does. By I'm assuming that you are holding The remains of the bullet after finding in the dead elk. Again exactly what I'd expect at 40 yards. Dead elk. Bullet did what it was designed to do. Cheers!

 

[Emm 300 RUM]

Wanted everyone's thoughts on this bullet?
It's a 140gr accubond from a 270
View attachment 214909
from an elk skull at 40yds. Not what I expected personally

definitley held together

 

[Nomosendero]

EVERYTHING YOU ASK FOR IS IN THE BARNES X BULLET, FLAT BASE...

YES THE BC SUCKS

WITHIN 500 YOU AND YOUR PREY WONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!!!

Low BC, within 500 many will, so it gives almost everything, which was my point.
BTW, I do use the TTSX a good deal.

 

[PubGerm]

What alot of people don't understand is that especially with larger calibers in rifles there is an optimum velocity before it will expand efficiently. Before that velocity it is moving too fast and in doing so will not expand optimally. That being said there are so many variables in shooting it is an easy thing to overlook, and also different variable will obviously change things.

 

[bigngreen]

Sounds about right for the Accubonds, need twice as many bullets to get something dead!! The 140 AB didn't impress me all that much.

 

[openlake]

I am a Accubond fan. I personally shot over 30 animals, wild hogs and whitetail deer. I only recovered one bullet, 7mm 140 grain 95% retained weight. All others were complete pass throughs under 300 yards. The first shots were head and shoulder shots on the big boar hogs and the bullets performed great. Dead animals.
A head shot on an elk is some pretty hard bone. I'm surprised it wasn't a complete pass through. Still, a very good bullet.