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Has anyone used these? Thoughts? By the way, I'm just talking about projectiles; not loaded ammunition.

My thoughts,buy a box and try them on hogs. Then let us know how they do.

Rev, I bought a couple or three hundred of the 173 grain Hirtenbergers for a 7x57 project. It didn't work out, but I doubt that was because of the bullets.

Since Hornady 175 grain Interlocks seem to be as scarce as hen's teeth, I thought they might make a decent substitute.

And yes, Elk, that's my test medium.

Well the price certainly seemed right on them, and they turned out to be great looking bullets. Not exactly a RN, but definitely no spitzer either.

Grafs has them for $20 per hundred. If nothing else, I could load them with a bit of 5744 for practice loads.

Yes, I'm pretty sure I bought mine from Graf's.

In the best of campfire tradition I will comment on a completely different bullet the 120 grain 6.5mm Hirtenberger bullet.

My curiosity was piqued so I sectioned one. What I found was a fairly thin only slightly tapered jacket. The core dropped out of the jacket too. I really wanted to like these and was all set to use them for Deer and Hogs. But with the light construction I will relegate them to practice and load work up. The 173 gr. 7mm I would suspect has heavier construction.

Uniformity was good as to weight and diameter. Haven't shot them yet for accuracy but they seem to be a quality product.

In comparison the PPU 139 gr. 6.5s were much more like a Rem. Core loct in jacket construction. Well tapered with a thicker base and a cannelure to help hold it together. These are less uniform but will get used on game with confidence. Hogs will hate them.

They might be designed for smaller European "big game" like roebuck and chamois. I know another Euro ammo company makes a lightly constructed bullet primarily for shooting roebuck on small estates where any deer has to be dropped quickly, because if it runs across the property boundary it legally belongs to the other landowner.

I defer to Mr Barsness for confirmation...

I bought a batch of 6.5 mm partitions that were a 105 grain Semi Spitzer from Shooters Pro Shop a number of years ago...

the price was sorta cheap, because of the weight and being SMP types, they weren't moving so the price was dropped big time...

I bought them while at Shooters Pro Shop over in Bend....

Because they were odd, the counter person told me that they were blem or overruns for a contract with Hirtenberger in Germany... at the time, he told me Nosler did a lot of contract work for them, Norma and a few other European ammo manufacturing companies....

As Joel/Crimson Tide Described above, they weren't round nose, nor where they were Spitzers...profile should have been SMP ( Semi Pointed), like the Nosler 160 grain in 270 and the 220 grain SMP in 30 caliber... both partitions...

the SMP was the original design on a lot of the earlier generation partitions according to my Nosler Number 1 Manual...

I like it and wish they were still available... but everyone seems to want a bullet that is flat shooting as possible to the longest distance as possible, so they shoot a deer at 100 yds or less....

personally I think the SMP design has a better on game performance than the spitzer version of the Partition...

Yes and they would probably do fine on Hill Country whitetail too. I will need to test them more to have confidence. I understand they are also used for Capercaillie and Black Cock so equivalent to a Scandinavian Turkey round. The 120's that is.