Originally Posted by JCMCUBIC
Originally Posted by Hastings
Our experience indicated that a longer jump was more accurate with the 129 ABLR. I do not have a measurement on COAL to set the bullet to the lands, but We first went for magazine length and then backed up about 30/1000 which yielded a tighter group. I have not autopsied a wild hog shot with this load, but the man we gave them to reported unusual fragmentation of the bullet which I would not expect of a Nosler ABLR launched at under 2600 fps. I have used .308 caliber Nosler AB that were pretty tough bullets.

I'm surprised to hear about fragmentation of the 129 ABLR from a mild round. I had exits on every deer this year, at fairly close range, one at a hard angle taking out a shoulder. These were all from a 6.5 CM.
Admittedly I am reporting on a small sample that I did not observe the skinning/gutting process on, and the hogs were killed very dead. Since we have over a hundred more of these ABLR 129s and they are very accurate we will keep shooting hogs with them. I would guess since my neighbor and I shoot 150 to 200 hogs a year we'll know more about this bullet before long.

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