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Coyote Hunter,

So you shoot three critters and suddenly you know all about Accubonds?

I have not. LINK?

I've shot more than three animals with AccuBonds. Just three elk.

And the 150g AB did not impress. I fully expected an exit on a neck shot.

And no,I don't know "all about" AccuBonds or any other bullet for that matter. I do know I trust North Fork SS more than Nosler AB. As I do Swift AF, Federal TB and Barnes MRX/TTSX.

Ok so you picked a bullet that opens decently wide, with a relatively low SD, and shot a large animal in the neck, which is some of the densest tissue in the body. Right.

Well as irrelevant as you think SD might be, I've blown several 180 AB's through various part of bull elk and never found one. I think your results would have been different with a heavier bullet.

About the only bullet that seems impervious to lack of SD is Barnes, and even they are probably subject to the rule if I could find game big enough to shoot with them.

Yes, and as I said, at 282 yards I fully anticipated the 150g/.308” AB would exit on a neck shot. Impact velocity and energy calculate out to about 2542fps and 2152fpe. That is considerably more than a .30-30/150g can muster at the muzzle.

A bullet’s starting SD is much overrated in my book – once bullets expand a difference in mass of 10-15g makes remarkably little difference. For example, here are the SD values for four bullets expanded to 0.5”:
.080 = 140g
.086 = 150g
.091 = 160g
.094 = 165g

I’ve driven 7mm/140g NF ham-to–sternum on buck mulie. That bullet passed through a grass-filled gut, which isn’t exactly fluff. It took me 20 years of shooting elk to recover a 7mm/160g GS and that one had destroyed both shoulder joints of a 5x5 bull before coming to rest peeking out of the bone on the far side. I have recovered a couple of .308”/165g NF from elk but they also encountered heavy bone before coming to a stop under the hide on the off side. As to MRX/TTSX, I have yet to recover one in any weight and my hunting buddy has never recovered a TB. My hunting buddy has also taken both a 5x5 bull and a cow with neck shots using a 160g GS. The one on the bull took out a section of spine and both exited.

I guess I was just expecting too much out of the 150g AB.

I'm a one gun guy. That gun is a WBY MarkV Alaskan in 300wby mag. If I'm hunting Elk I use the WBY factory 180gr Nosler Partitions and if I'm Deer hunting I drop it down to the 150gr Partitions.
No complaints for a the last 20+ years and it's hard to believe it's been that long!

I'm a one gun guy. That gun is a WBY MarkV Alaskan in 300wby mag. If I'm hunting Elk I use the WBY factory 180gr Nosler Partitions and if I'm Deer hunting I drop it down to the 150gr Partitions.
No complaints for a the last 20+ years and it's hard to believe it's been that long!

I've driven a 140g 7mm ballistic tip stem to stern through a muley buck. Not bad for a bullet 75% cheaper than a BT.

Range was 200 yards from a 280 remington. 3150fps at the muzzle iirc.

55gr of RL19, Norma case, and Federal 210 GMM primer.