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I killed a 150# buck couple years ago with this round. 40 yard shot...60 yard recovery with no blood trail. No big shakes...it happens sometimes. Last week a buddy shoots (at) a buck at dark. 100 yds No blood, hair etc. His eyesight is poor, plus it is dark so he can't tell me much about the deer reaction. We never find anything. Smooth miss we assume. Tonight he shoots another deer. 120#, 100 yds give or take. Perfect broadside shot, right behind the shoulder. Deer runs 150 yds and no blood until the last 10 feet. Is this typical performance results from this bullet?

130 gr Hornady Interlocks will end the chase.

I dont know the answer to your question, but there was a thread on here a few days ago with the same question about accubond bullets. No blood trails. I had the same problem with 130 gr. Sierra pro-hunters a few years ago. We lost 3 deer in 1 year. Buzzards found them, or we never would have. Changed bullets and havent had any problem since.

I think I have heard of this problem at some point with about every bullet made. What is the deal? Why do you get a great blood trail one time but not the next. Every deer I have shot with the Hornady Interbond exciept one bled like crazy. The lone excieption bled like I shot it with a varmint caliber. Basically it never did bleed. The deer only went about 50 yards but it bled very little.

If I had the answer to that question, I could retire!! After the fiasco with the 130 gr pro-hunter, I went to store bought core-locks for a while. Then I had my rifle reworked and shot the 142 gr gameking for a while. I had no problems with either of them, meaning I got all my deer. But like you said, I had 1 with the core-locks that didnt bleed for over 75 yds and that is hard tracking in a thicket. The 142 gr was ok, but I just couldnt quite get the group I wanted. Changed to 135 match and love them.

I have used the Hornady spire point 130 interlock with good results, buuuttt....I have killed a deer (perfect shot) that did not bleed the first 75-85 yards. Guess it just happens. All other harvests with this bullet have been DRT. I think the biggest problem with the 270 and hunting the southeast are short shots. Less than 100 yards. Bullets might perform different at 270 speeds at short ranges???? When you hunt the swamps and pine/saw briar thickets off the southeast. DRT is of great value. Best blood trails that I have seen recently were the Federal Fusion. Most were DRT but those that ran left a good trail.

Really not sure why I act surprised. I have seen and/or tracked 150 plus deer killed with a rifle. Most shots were rib cage forward. From .223 to 300 Weatherby. Some run, some drop, some bleed, some don't. Bigger caliber did not make a difference as memory serves.

140 Accubonds launched at 2625 MV from a 260 Ruger Compact have accounted for just as many DRT elk as my 300 win mag. One each, 260 at 203 yards, 300 at 40 yards. The 260 has killed far more elk in our camps than a 300 ever will... since the 300 hit the road and all we have are 6.5s...


Have a problem with accubonds or any other bullet bouncing off the vitals of a whitetail and leaving no blood trail. Shoot them in the azz, throat, leg, tail, nose, ear, etc... no bullet will leave a blood trail.

Helped a friend load a huge cow elk today that was shot with a lowly tang safety Ruger 308 and Winchester Power Points from Wal-Mart. Only bullets he likes, and all he'll shoot. One in the lungs left a blood trail so friggin big, Stevie Wonder could have sniffed his way to the elk.

Maybe your buddy can't shoot for [bleep], can't see at all, or he's got more gun than he can shoot?

Any whitetail on the planet will die with an el cheapo 105 grain core lokt green and yellow box 243 in the vitals. Elk do the same.

140 AB load from above will exit on a broadside shot, smash shoulders, destroy scapulae, wreck heart, lungs, etc. on elk. Can't imagine a whitetail being much tougher.

That is very possible. Like I said. His eye sight is lacking, he seems to always shoot very late (loves his swarovski optics) plus I think he suffers from buck fever more than most...but he will not ever admit to that.

On a smaller framed animal, lighter ballistic tips, AMAX, or SSTs may be your friend.

Think INSTANT catastrophic damage to vitals...

I've read articles about different bullet performance at different speeds. Not talking accuracy, but what happens to the bullet when it hits something. I dont remember all the data, but some bullets dont respond (mushroom and stay together) if traveling too fast, slow, or the target is too soft. This may be the problem since your shots are rather close. The bullet may/probably will react differently at 200 yards hitting an elk than at 50 yards hitting a deer.

Just a thought!

I've had good success with the .270 140 grain Accubond. In fact, it's my favorite load in .270 Win.

I'm a fan of the Accubomb. Have anchored large whitetails as well as experienced wonderful gushes of crimson with them in 140grain from the 280 & 7SAUM as well as 180gr launched from a 300wsm. Hard to imagine better performance. MMV.

And, when I do experience less than perfect bullet performance with the Accubomb, it'll likely have more to do with the shooter than the bullet.

It's that extra .007"

I used the 130g AB from a 260 on a whitetail doe this year at 200 yards. Band flop, with a big exit.

Have noticed that some game when hit highish in the chest cavity don't always leave a good trail. I wonder if part of it is because the blood just pools in the bottom of the chest cavity and doesn't get high enough to "pour out".

Shot a Zebra and a Gemsbok both a little high through the lungs in africa last year with the 260 AB from my 375 ruger. Both had big holes through them but didn't leave much of a trail. Neither went too far and were recovered but there wasn't much blood to go on.

I also shot an elk this fall with the 200 g AB from my 300 ultra. I was dealing with a knee injury and had to take what opportunity I had. I dropped it at 503 yards while it quartered away. A bullet went in the hind quarter and shattered the femur just below the hip joint and then traveled all the way through the paunch, the liver, one lung and lodged in the rib cage. I dug the bullet out and it has a large classic mushroom and weighs 130 grains. It pretty much did what I'd have expected from a 200g partition. The next morning my friend and his sister both dropped elk at about 350 with 180 AB's from a 300 WSM and a 30-06.

We've had good luck with AB's.

Bb

Burleyboy,

You nailed at least part of the deal right on the head: Even bullets that pass all the way through the chest do not always leave an immaidte blood trail, and part of the deal is whether the shot is above or below the mid-line. Below the mid-line and the blood trail starts much earlier.

I keep hearing about how this or that bullet always allows a blood trail, but I have seen several hundred big game animal killed and there is no secret blood-trail bullet. All will leave a great trail sometimes and not other times. The peopkle who start believing in a magic bullet just generally haven't seen enough animals killed with it to experience this.

if u want to shoot 140gr in 270 try the nosler balistic tip it does a great job not much tracking with it grin

180gr Accubonds outa the -06 are as good as it gets!! And 140's outa a 7-08 also worked well for us.. Both near images of a partiotion concerning wound channels.

I'm eager to see what the 130 dose outa my 260. I'm expecting stellar perferomance!!!

My son has killed pile of deer with his Encore 270 using Winchester Supreme 140 gr Accubonds and has never had any trouble. He has always had a good blood trail, and the deer have never gone very far (all I can remember have been under 50 yards and some less that 10).

I shot a whitetail buck 2 seasons ago at approximately 200 yards with the 140g Accubond with no blood trail in the snow. I held for his shoulder.

This year I shot a a whitetail buck at 35 yards with the 120g BT from a .284 going 3200+ with no blood trail. He was shot low near the bottom of the brisket and both shoulders