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130 or 150 grain Partition would be ideal but the 130 or 150 grain Hornady inter locks are very good bullets and would do the trick also, if buying premium bullets is a problem. More practice is better, shot placement more important than bullet.

Of the bullets mentioned,you could easily just hunt with the most accurate load in your Rifle and be very well off...ScottyO.

Put any of those bullets in the right spot and the cow will be dead. Don't make this harder than it has to be. Whichever one shoots the best is your answer.

The OP seems to be asking several questions about the Trophy Bonded Tip that no one is answering.

Yes, the Trophy Bonded Tip is an excellent elk bullet. Based on the Trophy Bear Claw, a very tough dangerous-game bullet, the Trophy Bonded Tip was designed with a polymer tip and a deeper lead-filled cavity so it would open up quicker and to a larger diameter on smaller game.

According to the maker (Federal), it still retains an average of 90% of its weight in game and is a deep penetration bullet - what I think of as an ideal elk bullet.

Whether you choose 130gr, 140gr or 150gr - there will be little difference in actual performance on elk, but I always lean to the heaviest weight bullet available that shoots well in my rifle for animals as big as elk.

Thanks I think the Federal Bonded tip should be a great bullet . I called Federal they said the 130gr vs 140 gr that there is very little difference between them

They recommended the Bonded Tip Bullet for Elk.

Use a 150 grain partition

150 Nosler partition

Before I started loading for my wife's 270 we used the 130gr Accubonds with no problem. Any Accubond or Partition load from 130-150gr will work. I have been impressed with the Hornady GMX and Nosler E-tip as well. Find one that shoots well and then taking the time to practice (more than you think you probably need) will make more impact than the "ultimate" bullet.

Last year I decided to change the load in my elk rifle and went to a different bullet/powder combo. Over the later part of the summer and early fall I put about 110rds through my 300 RUM validating trajectories and practicing out to 1200 yds. Then, opening morning I had a limited window to make a 450 yd shot on a 300" bull. After shooting this same rifle/load the months before and practicing to 1200 yds the 450 yd shot I was given seemed relatively easy.

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He wants to recover the bullet so he can post a picture here and opine on its "effectiveness".

Why in the world would you not want a pass-through? That is pure nonsense.

I have never eaten a bull that I would classify as "gamey". They are not as good as cows, however.

Just add this to a couple other of his "great" post

One post he suggested that a spotting scope was useless for elk out west.

Another he stated he could buy a new rifle for what it cost to take your own rifle to Africa.

.......wow....just wow

I've killed a lot of elk with the 130 Nosler partition in a 270, seen a couple killed with the Accubond 140, and have killed one with the 130 GMX in the Hornady Superformance Ammo, and 2 with the Nosler e-tip.

The Superformance in a 20 inch barrel, 3144 fps. That ain't bad. My new favorite in factory ammo. I can't handload something that fast.