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My son just got back from Georgia and brought me this little souvenir. Seems he walked up on a nice 9-point that hung around a little too long. Shot was from about 50 yards by his account, bullet smashed one shoulder, the spine, then the opposite shoulder. Came to rest in the off-side pelt. Put the deer down in his tracks, as you would imagine. The deer weighed between 180-200#.
Cartridge was .270 WCF, 130 grain Partition, stout charge of H4831SC, moving about 3150 fps. Retained weight was 86 grains, or 66%.


I just don't know what I'll do with the other hundred or so that I've got loaded up (and in .30-06 as well)....maybe use 'em for shooting hogs, or armadillos or something.

That's the kind of bullet pic I want, damnit...grin

Gnarly.....Partition?

Bone shocker?

Diameter, impact speed?

160gr partitions fired from 7mag. Recovered from under the hide on the farside of a bighorn sheep and large cow elk.

Just another day in the woods with a hot .270 and NPTs. Can't go wrong.

Alamosa
Recovered bullets just like those (in quantity) are the reason I no longer use NPs... The most over-rated bullet out there, IMO&E.
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I've used them, though not exclusively, for 25+ years. I have two that have been recovered. In reality the only thing unusual about the above performance (including dying in their tracks)is that the bullet didn't exit.
Despite the "rib", I love those bullets for whitetails.....

Looks pretty typical to me;the results sound typical, too.I have a pile downstairs I've recovered over the years.They all look pretty much the same.Least I know they'll always expand

Pineywoods,

That looks like a Nosler add. Heck I'd see how much Nosler would pay you for it (grin).

The first animal I ever killed with a Nosler Partition was an antelope that I shot last week.
Bullet clipped the shoulder blade on the way in, destroyed the heart and then left the scene of the crime through a good sized exit hole in the far side. Not a lot of bloodshot meat, which I liked.
Course, my hungting partner thought I was silly to use a 250 grain bullet in a 338 for antelope, but, HEY! It worked. LOL

Fred

Fred,

Yeah, I have shot some "too small" animals with the 250 .338 Partition, and it tends to work just like that....

I also have a large collection of failed Partitions pulled from dead animals in a large tackle box in the shop.

Anyone have a load for 160 Partitions for my Cooper 52 in 280 Rem?

If that's overrated, I'll take all of it I can get.

What I want, besides acceptable performance for a given size bullet on a given size animal, is consistency over many instances, and Partitions have had that in spades for me, as well as thousands of others over the years.

Haven't recovered many, but the recovered ones all look pretty much the same, per the 3 below............and the 3 Alamosa showed.

No knock on TSX or TBBC, as I use those as well with equally fine results so far............actually will be using a LWT 7-08 with 120 TSX for elk & deer this year.

MM

I have a few failures just like that with Partitions.........

Damn few because I've only ever found two and one was imbedded in a tree behind the buck that was shot.

A few more "failures"



[#2 is a Barnes Original flavor.]

I recovered a .375/300 gr boolit from a brown bear shot this spring. Found the boolit in the tree behind the bear - what a POS that it wouldn't stay inside the animal.

Can't ask for much better preformance than that. Those partitions are very consistent for sure.

Pinywoods, I�ll tell you like I told SamO, IME that is what happens when you try to drive THEM light for caliber bullet fast thru the shoulders. If�n you�d used a 140 NP that would�ve not happened. Or you should shot them behind the shoulder.

So for all you guy�s that aren�t happy with all those Partition failures, I will take them off your hands so you can go buy some Barnes bullets.
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The Ol� Man said, �Son, when you think you�re close enough to make the shot, try to get closer.�

They've been over-rated longer than any other over-rated bullet. Perhaps that's why my collection of recovered X bullets is larger?