Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting 7mm 140 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip vs. Accubond

To answer your question.....NAB

You might try Alliant's 2000MR - it cooks the 120 gr TTSX and NBT right along. I get better accuracy in my gun with this powder over BG, and similar velocity.

I don't see a need for the 140 BT. The 120 is tougher and I like the performance of the 150 even better. No mistakes to be made with the AB's, but have you tried the 160's?

CLB, just in my 7 WSM, and not on game.

I have killed a couple deer and a couple elk with (different) Accubonds and have been very impressed.

For my general-purpose load in the 7-08 I don't want to go heavy... 140 is fine. I have used 150 gn NBT's on deer, once, from a different 7-08. A little messy but it sure did work. Hmmm. Wonder if I have any of those laying around still. I don't remember if this rifle likes them or not, though I'd be surprised if it didn't.

The easy route forward is to just use the 140's as I have mucho experience with them and loads all ready to go and, well, it does seem like 140 grn is more than adequate for deer.

JFC, road gravel will kill a deer. Shoot what flies best in your rifle, and learn to [bleep] glass.

Killing them is the easy part, you numbskull.

I can only offer an example of one. The 140 AB at 2700 fps from my 7x57 and my oryx at 150 yards. In and out and dropped dead.

For MD, and assuming you're willing to shoot at whatever angle necessary, I'd either go with the 120gr TTSX, 150gr BT, or 140gr AB.

Accubond

Bone

My choice.

mine too...

Well, a statistic of one probably doesn't mean squat but I shot a decent size desert Mule Deer at about 75 yrds with the 140 gr. ballisitic Tip from my 7x57 at 2800 FPS MV on about the the second rib behind the shoulder. At impact, I heard a loud sharp crack which I believe was the bullet hitting a rib. There was a bloom of blood at the point of impact and the deer which was with a bunch of does turned down into a gully while the does ran off uphill. I have to wonder if that bullet actually penetrated into the deer or just blew up on that rib. I wonder because bad luck dogged my as I went up the hill. My right leg went one way while the rest of me took another direction and I tore all the cartilige out of my right knee. My hunting partners hearing my shot came over and although I asked them to find my deer, they were more concerned about getting me off the hill and to a doctor. I'm still as hell.
The bullets used were from a batch I bought when Nosler was still selling them in 100 round boxes. What did get my goat was they educed to 50 bullets to the box and maintained the same price. Dunno why they did it buy it's always kind of stuck in my craw. I believe those bullets may have thinner jackets than the current version.
Paul B.

Yep, the 140 AB would be a fine choice in the 7-08. Good luck with it.

I prefer the Accubond over the Ballistic Tip.

My only complaint is that fact that I usually find 1-2 of the white tips broken or off completely in every box.

Nosler should address the broken tips in my opinion. However, I will keep using them unless now. Though my favorite bullet is the Barnes TTSX and TSX.

I had tips come off several early 225-gn .338 caliber Accubonds. I talked to the dude at Nosler about it and damned if he didn't send me a box of 'em!

I've always favored penetration, for instance the bullet I've killed a bunch (in my world, lol) of blacktails with from a 7-08 was the 150 Partition. With the longer ranges involved with mulies I just thought I'd ask...

Either one will do you just fine Jeff, so would the 139 Horn and that's the slug I'd most likely run.

I've taken a ark or two of game with the 150 NBT out of my Mash and it just pounds them near or far. Point being, I'd sure not worry about the 140 NBT.

Dober

What you really wanted to say is "rock on"............

Thought I'd toss you a bone this time and let you handle it 4 me...

Rock the house bubba!

Dober

Jeff, Dober is right but I have used only the 140BT since it's inception in my 7X57AI and have had nothing but excellent results...never lost a deer. Several s.Texas 200lb bucks... nary a hickey. powdr

I've seen my brother do work on a bull at around 290 yards with the .270 140 BT. Definitely didn't bounce off.

Northern Great Lakes whitetail & Kansas with 139 Hornady, 140BT and the older solid base no problems. The largest buck weighed came out off the MN/Canuck border and went 260# dressed. How much bigger are mule deer than that variety?

Never weighed a Kansas deer but they appear substantial...:) Have run 140BT out of a 7x57 & 280.

Am loading the 140AB @ 2800ish for daughter's 7-08 elk hunt...