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How many of US have shot 300 Nosler Partitions "hunting" ??


Jerry

Stupid question but.....shouldn't you know what each of these rifles in those calibers like to shoot accurately?? The 308 might love a 165 grain bullet weight and the 300's might be a 180 gain. That's the way it is with my rifles. I load the round and bullet weight for each individual rifle.

Silliness, silliness, all is silliness.

Accu bond tsx or partition.in a 180....whatever shoots the best....I have loaded for many 30 cal rifles and of these 3 I never failed to make any of them shoot...

***CAUTION***CAUTION***CAUTION***

Have you ever heard of "Cold Weld". I don't know of anything to prevent this in 'long term' storage of ammo.

Just a Heads Up.


Jerry

+1

What a concept...

DF

I agree:

If he is a real friend I wouldn't do it for most of the reasons listed and above all it is false economy and you will bear the brunt of his 'cheapness'

Hey Guys, kman hasn't posted since 12/27 on P 1. I don't know if he's still following his thread.

I agree on finding THE load for THE rifle etc.

PLUS, I've experienced 'cold weld' recently and have REconsidered loading for long term. I have some other older handloads that I'm going to UNload or REseat the bullets.


THEY need to start loading their own, IMO.


Jerry

For the above reasons I only load for hunting and targets a few days before going..................but I also keep a few rounds for each rifle etc loaded that aren't used for either.

In from left field: my choice would be a heavy soft cast lead bullet, 190-220 grains, with either a meplat wide and flat enough to tap dance on or as a hollowpoint. Driven at 2000fps or so and used at "woods ranges" it'll do the job (and has) on anything edible in North America. (I'll reserve judgement on it's usefulness on bears that would eat you as well as not to others with actual experience.) Such a load would duplicate the old gov't .30-40 Krag load, and no one can refute the track record of that old cartridge.

Added benefit: your ammo would cost about $5/box, plus time and labor.

What I do for my buddies that don't reload is tell them to buy these www.bulletproofsamples.com/ in what ever they want I load them up a few of each. which ever one they like the most they pick up a box load them up 20 rounds and make note of powder, bullet, primer, and case o.a.l and when they're all out load up some more.

kman,

As others have mentioned, it would be important to know if any one bullet would give acceptable accuracy in all three of the cartridges you mention.

I understand the 'keep it simple' premise, but if it were me developing loads, I would start with a small sample of 165 and 180 gr. Barnes TTSX and Accubond bullets, try a few loads with both, and see what happens. If by some miracle you find loads with one of these bullets for all three rifles, you are one lucky guy!

In my own experience, the 165 gr. Barnes TSX and TTSX bullets have given outstanding accuracy in my .300 Weatherby, and in my son's .30-06. In both rifles, accuracy was obtained by seating bullets with the top groove at the case mouth.

Now, let's hope your friend doesn't also ask to use the same powder for all loads.....

The 180 Partition will work just fine at both the lowest and highest velocities expected from all of these rounds. And it will shoot accurately enough (or more) to kill big game at whatever ranges he plans to hunt.

You guys are just gacking.

Not totally. Some rifles don't like 'some' bullets and 'some' rifles don't like Noslers.

I also know that 'cold weld' is real.


Jerry

Thanks fellas. Ordered a stack of 180 partitions, an 8 pounder of Varget and imr 7977. Couple hundred pieces of lapua 308 brass and Norma 300 wm and wby brass. Shouldn't be a big trick to get 1.5 MOA or less which is fine for a hunting load out to the range they shoot big game with. Will update in the next few weeks as I have time to get this started.

Thanks

kman

Good Luck.
If the rifles will shoot the partitions they are never a bad choice.

Am interested in your follow up.

Jerry

maybe they plan to shoot some of them NY deer!

Yup. The first post on these type of threads is usually the best, and so it is in this case. Ditto the 180 Accubond.

I've used the 180 Partition in the 300 WSM and 30-06, antelope to Elk. It works...

It's going to be different for everyone, really.
I'm never going to have a private elk or bear hunt. If I get to hunt them its going to be paid and guided.
I'm going to want to get close and be 100% sure of dropping my quarry on the spot.
Folks who hunt regularly may be willing to spend the better part of the day tracking or a different man may prefer to snipe one from a ridgetop 800 yards away.
My choice is going to differ based on what I'd want from my hunt. And I'd want things up close and personal. A 180 RN CORE-LOCT would suffice.