Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Niche for .308 diameter 150 gr. Partitions

I would imagine in a very high velocity round at close range the 150 partition put through the front shoulders would be good for at least 20 lbs+ of bloodshot meat. If one is a meat hunter its not necessarily desirable.

My thoughts are it would be far more suited to 308 win velocities and in fact for close range deer loads I'd likely go with a fairly mild load.

A 308 win 150 partition loaded to around 2850 fps at close range will reliably put meat on the table up to and including moose and elk.

An uncle has been doing this for over 30 years using 47.5 gr of Varget. He claims its the holy grail of 308 loads for big game.

Shod

Quite easy to switch over to a Barnes TTSX or Nosler ETip in 150 grain for elk and moose.

But I wouldn't hesitate much with a 150 Partition either. Drive it as fast as possible, blow off the front end, and send the "wadcutter" on through to the far side hide. Pretty sure that'll work most every time.

Are these normally accurate with 1-10" twist barrels or better with 1-12"? Recommended powder for 22" barrel, range under 300 yd?

The stock has a lot to do with felt recoil..I can tell a difference in my Mcmillan Featherweight .270 WSM between 130's and 150's

In the wide well padded stock on my .270 Win not so much.

Mike

Either twist is great.

Which cartridge?

Was at the local Pawn yesterday and I got a new full box of 150 Speer HC's for $10. Happy camper!-Muddy

Bingo - that rifle/cartridge combo was my first thought opening this thread. Mine's an EG, but same applies...

150's kill elk just fine.

308win

Brain Litz has won some big 1000 yard matches with a 308 and he shoots a 9 twist.

Ya reckon ol' Leitz shoots 150 partitions?

Bryan Litz

Yup. I hear he shoots Noslers exclusively.

Yes, big ABLR fan

The 22" barrel doesn't require anything special, and the 308 Win. works well with a wide variety of mid speed powders. IMR 3031, 4320, 4064, 4895, W748, RL15, N140, Varget, H4895, TAC and numerous others.

The space occupied by that bullet at .308 velocities seems to be the opposite of a niche. A better question might be "what would it not work on." Stout enough for the largest non-dangerous game but mild enough to shoot prairie dogs with if you want.

the 150gr Partition works great. I would bet more are shot out of the 308 Winchester, By percentage. Than any other Cartridge. But 300 Savage, 30-06, 300 Win mag all shoot them well.

There's no Montana big game I wouldn't hunt with a 150 Partition from a .308. If they ever open the grizzly season I might choose something a little bigger, but wouldn't feel i had to stay home if that's all I had.

Well I tested the niche bullet some last year and this spring. Loaded some old style partitions, the off bronze colored ones with the groove and put them to use on feral hogs. This particular bullet seemed to loose all of the front of the bullet in front of the partition and the rear of the bullet exited leaving a caliber sized bullet hole. Almost non existent blood trails but killed well just the same. Very destructive generally. These bullets came in the original box but there were only 24 bullets in it. I sighted in with 11 and had 13 loaded rounds left with which I killed 6 feral hogs and still have 7 loaded rounds left. 2 were head shot and were very gruesome looking after being hit. 3 were hit in the neck/spine and the exits on these were pretty big but total penetration needed was 6-8 inches. Massive damage also. The one that actually needed what the partition is famous for (penetration) was hit in the ribs just behind the diaphram making a nasty mess of the liver, traveling through the intestines and exiting through the rear leg bone just under the hip joint and out the hog leaving just the 30 caliber hole. No blood trail but the hog only went 50 yards. This gnarley looking black and white hog was quartering to my left and rolling a hog toy, probably pushed forward just as I shot. He did not go that far but it was after dark and he got into some shinnery that I was not going into in the dark alone not knowing the hogs actual condition. I did a grid search and found him quickly the next day but not before at least one coyote had hog nuts and hindquarter for a midnite snack. I have since ordered 600 of the modern version of the 150 gr. Partition from SPS (blems). Will try to re run the testing with the new version of this bullet in the fall but right now fishing takes the lead in my spare time use.

Oh yes the rifle is a 308 and the load was a max load of BLC-2 so I was getting 2800 fps or so with the antique bullets. A blast from the past though I know the newer version will keep a larger frontal area. All shooting was inside of 75 yards, a couple were inside of 30 yards.