Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 7mm 150 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tip

I have a 7mm Rem Magnum that seems to shoot best with 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips. I'm planning to use this rifle on one of my mule deer hunts this fall and I'm wondering if the 150 grain NBT will provide adequate penetration on good sized muleys.

I've hunted mule deer often but have never used this bullet before. I'll be hunting in open country but of course there is always the possibility of a shot at close range. As I recall, JB says that different NBT's (in caliber and weight) have different performance properties. How does the 7mm 150 grainer perform on mule deer?

I wouldn't hesitate to use the 7mm, 150gr BT. And I say this based on experience with said bullet.

Great 7mag bullet, shot very accurate in my last, a 700 BDL SS.

I have seen the 7mm 150 BT penetrate very well, and on animals bigger than mule deer.

....and they sure do shoot!Dober got me started on them and I have been putting a bunch downrange from my 7RM.They hit where you look!

Thanks JB! I will give them a try. I always knew NBT's shot well but was concerned about penetration.

I killed a lot of Mule Deer and Whietails in several states for many years using the 150 Btip over 69 grs of H4831, a very accurate load in the 7 mag BDL, seat it out to @ 3.34 unless your throat is short,used the 215 M primer, still hard to beat that load for consistant accuracy,hovered @3150 fps, a bit bloody on close shots but really shines way out there.

JB, referencing "that different NBT'S have different performance properties", which calibers/weights are constructed as tough as the 7mm 120 grain NBT. Thank you.

I for one, have never had an issue with that bullet, and I've used it in situations that were probably a little on the rough side for its intended use, i.e. <50 yards from a 7MM RM.

NBTs get a lot of crap. I think the performance of the NBT is directly proportional to the amount of teeth remaining in your smile. Just ask these folks.

http://forum.gon.com/archive/index.php/t-433940.html

I've been using the 150 NBT out of the 7 Rem and out of my Mashburn for all that moves (yotes, chucks, lopes, deer, elk, bruins etc..) it will decidedly stop a muley and right now!

There's hardly anything in this world that I'd not take on with the bullet out of my Mashburn or any other big 7.

Dober

it sure is an accurate little devil out of my 7.. Hope to kill something with it soon.

The only experience I ever had with ballistic tips on game was a 180 from a 300 Wby on a cow elk when they first came out (the 180's not the cow elk....). What an awful mess that created -- to this day I can't bring myself to try the "new and improved" BT on anything but varmints. Irrational, I know, but it's just not going to happen. FWIW, Dutch.

Last fall I shot a decent mule deer buck twice through the chest at about 80 yards with the 150 gr BT out of my 7mm mag. He wasn't able to stop either bullet. A couple of years ago I put that bullet to a very stern test. I was running them at 3400 fps out of my 7mm RUM and I shot a corn fed whitetail buck square on the shoulder at 54 yards. The bullet shattered his onside shoulder, blew a hole in the ribs you could stick your fist through, pureed the lungs and still exited through the other shoulder, just missing the bone. I agree with Dober, have no fear. Shoot 'em straight and things die.

The 150 NBT is the most accurate bullet out of my two .280AI's and my 7RM. It's a perfect choice for any deer sized animal. However, according to Nosler's (I called them) people it is not as tough as their 180gr 30 cal. BT or their 120gr. .284 bullet. Both bullets have had their jackets beefed up. I also recall being told that their larger cal. bullets have thicker jackets as well.

Has anyone shot Elk with them? I have used Silvertips for years on deer and they work great and will be bringing it as a backup rifle for Elk.

Ah...that would be a yes about the elk... I'd have no worries Randy take it and light one up if you get the chance, have a super hunt!

The 150 BT is the most accurate bullet I've ever used in a 7mm mag and I've had no problems with them on whitetail deer.

Delta Hunter..... Is there a public rifle range in north MS? I have not joined the club in Memphis and am looking for an alternative place to sight in a couple of rifles and test some loads. Thanks

Delta,

Have you run those loads through the chrony? Wondering what they clocked in the Sako.

Good Lord. Now EVERYBODY is going to hate me!

The one deer I shot with one... to say it blew up would be an exaggeration; it was neck shot and it certainly exited out the other side of the neck. But it sure did take out some meat. It literally made chunk like the size of an apple or a double fist, vanish. It is, to this day, the most dramatic wound I've seen on a deer.

That was from a 7mm-08 at a MV in the mid 2600's, at fairly close range.