Good afternoon all.
Over the summer I worked up a load for my 7mm-08 Ruger deer rifle. It's 140 grain Nosler accubonds over an upper end dose of Varget. I am absolutely tickled with it because I am consistently grouping around 0.75" at 100 yds, which is more than sufficient minute-of-deer at the distances I will shoot. I am clocking about 2795-2800 fps at the muzzle.
But in the past 4 days I have talked to 3 different people, only two who know each other, who have said that they don't trust accubonds to open up on whitetail/antelope/mule deer size game. This is not consistent with the numerous reviews and articles I read when making my selection. But all 3 folks have credible experience.
So I'm hoping to get some more information before I commit to using this load all season. Has anyone else had trouble with accubonds passing through with no expansion? 7mm/.284 experience around that velocity would be most pertinent, I suppose.
Over the summer I worked up a load for my 7mm-08 Ruger deer rifle. It's 140 grain Nosler accubonds over an upper end dose of Varget. I am absolutely tickled with it because I am consistently grouping around 0.75" at 100 yds, which is more than sufficient minute-of-deer at the distances I will shoot. I am clocking about 2795-2800 fps at the muzzle.
But in the past 4 days I have talked to 3 different people, only two who know each other, who have said that they don't trust accubonds to open up on whitetail/antelope/mule deer size game. This is not consistent with the numerous reviews and articles I read when making my selection. But all 3 folks have credible experience.
So I'm hoping to get some more information before I commit to using this load all season. Has anyone else had trouble with accubonds passing through with no expansion? 7mm/.284 experience around that velocity would be most pertinent, I suppose.