Ballistic Tips vs. Deer

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Bella

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Has anyone here ever taken a deer using Nosler Ballistic Tip Bullets? How did they work, where they effective? I ask because I plan on going deer hunting soon. The rifle I am going to take really likes these bullets. I have never used them on big game. So some input would be helpful.
 
New manufacture NBTs work great. I have a problem with some pretty old ammo ~ 10 years or more, that failed to open. I recovered the game, but it was a through and through. After a little research I learned I wasn't the only one to have that problem.

I have found them devastating for both broadside and neck shots on White Tail. I would hesitate to use NBT to hunt feral boars unless I planned to go exclusively with head and neck shots.
 
I have used them on texas deer in 30-06 150gr. and 243 in 70gr.

The 06 worked great but the 243 faild to enter the chest on a broadside shoulder shot at around 250 yds.
 
I've taken about 15 or 16 deer.......

with my .243, using the 95 grain Ballistic Tip, and all of them fell in their tracks except one, and it ran about 35 yards before collapsing. KILLER bullets.
 
2Rugers says:

"I have used them on texas deer in 30-06 150gr. and 243 in 70gr.

The 06 worked great but the 243 faild to enter the chest on a broadside shoulder shot at around 250 yds."

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That is why you don't use a 70 grain pill. I gotta ask, what were you thinkin'?
 
Ballistic tips

My son and I have used Combined Technologies (Nosler & Winchester) Winchester Silver Ballistic Tip ammo for deer here in South Alabama for several years. Calibers are 30-06, 308 and 300 Win Mag. We have had no problems and none of the deer shot have traveled more than a few yards.
 
The smaller caliber, and especially the lighter BT bullets are thin jackets meant for varmints, such as the 70 gr. in .243. The heavier weight for caliber BT bullets and those for larger calibers are thicker jacketed for big game.
 
I used Winchester Ballistic Silvertips almost exclusively in my .30/06, 7mm-08, and 7mm Rem Mag for everything from deer to elk with great results.
 
Deer and antelope,I use them in my .257 (115 gr)with very good results.I suppose if I wanted a little more penetration,I could try an Accu-bond.It is a whack them in the slats bullet(in small calibers).I would not try shots that require serious penetration,but ribs to heart lung it performs well.

I load the Accubonds in my 30-338 and my .375
 
ive used them in .270, .308, .30-06, and 7mm mag....seemed to work fine... not sure how much penetration or mushroom compared to other bullets.... only that they killed what I shot at with it.
 
re:Bella

I have never used them for big game, yet. I have used the smaller ones for varmints with devastating rsults. In most of my rifles they are the most accurate hunting bullets. I wouldn't want to get by any bullet, but I imagine that a ballistic tip's wound would be ugly to say the least.
 
I use Combined Technologies ballistic silvertips, in 150 grain through my .308 and they put a hole about the size of my little finger going in, and about the size of a tobasco bottle coming out. Pretty much everything in between is mulch. I Have also used them on hogs out to 100 yards. Deer or Hog, I have never had anything go over 30 yards from point of impact, with most of them dead where the stood.
 
150 winchester silver tip

I have used this for years on deer and hogs with great outcomes. I have taken all head and neck shots though, untill last year. Shot a buck in the chest, came out the front shoulder whit a TON of damage to the meat. It's a great round from a 308, but it will cause a lot of trama to the meat. IMO
 
I don't like them. Ballistic tipped bullets were designed for long-range shooting with hot calibers. The idea being that they would still open up at the terminal end of their trajectory. All of my hunting is going to be at less than 200 yds. That is too close for a BT bullet and you'll loose more meat than you need to by using one.
 
I have used ballistic tips ( win supreme combined technology, rem accutips, NBTs) in .243 win, .260, 7mm-08 and .308 win.

I have nothing but great things to say about the bullet performance when the shot is a standard broadside shot into the ribs. They turn the lungs into a gooey mess and drop deer as well as any other fast opening soft point.

The only time I would be hesitant about them is in the .243 if you are faced with a quartering shot and have to get through a shoulder to get to the lungs.
 
That is too close for a BT bullet and you'll loose more meat than you need to by using one.
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Not my experience at all. Most of mine (maybe all) right around 100 yds (30-06), no more meat lost than any other same weight bullet.
 
In modest calibers,the Ballistic tip will expand and perform at modest velocities.For example,a 150 gr BT would probably perform very well in a 7x57 at all practical ranges.But,once again,I would not ask it to do the same job as a Nosler partition .Its not a deep driving ,bone smashing bullet..

I would expect an Accubond to likely shoot about the same as a BT,giving a choice.It will penetrate deeper.On a deer with,say a 7mm mag,I think I'd use an Accubond to save some meat but with a .257 or a 7x57 or 308 I use a ballistic tip ,probably on the heavier side,like 115,150,165 repstively.

Then just accept you want to hit ribs just behind the foreleg.
 
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