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The nosler PT still offers the best blend of killing quick and dead reliable penetration.
If Nosler offered a boat tail, tipped and high BC partition they would dominate the market.

If people knew how good the 180 Nosler Ballistic Tip really is, they wouldn't need partitions...

I'm tempted to try the 180 accubonds, but I've got enough E-tips to last the rest of my hunting career so I don't really see the point.

I have shot 18 big game animals with Nosler Ballistic tip bullets.

The guys I hunt with think I am nuts.

They hunt with partition bullets.

I know that terminal ballistics is a few anecdotes with dominating out of control variables.

But when they hunt with me, I can show them the wound channel. I aim for the lungs and the reaction is either bang flop or bang stagger stagger flop.

They say that someday I will have quartering away shot, and wish I had a partition.

How can anyone live in a free country and hunt with dictators? Lol.

It's your hunt, enjoy it.

Lot of truth to that. I am very fond of the 180 BT.

I tried BT way back and thought the accuracy was great but on game wasn't. I haven't bought any BTs in probably close to twenty years.

There are so many good bullets available it isn't hard to find "good" performers. I have been using Etips in my .300WM but have yet to decide if they're the bees knees.

I actually think highly of some of the C&C HP's from both Hornady and Sierra but haven't been finding them lately. I pass through Bend going to visit family so pick up seconds regularly from Nosler.

Hornady interlocks or the bt's worked well for me

They work quite well in a 300 win mag.

I ran 180 BT's out of a 300 WM back in the mid to late 80's and used it exclusively on whitetail. Long(ish) range crop damage shooting when they had that here. I turned average sized whitetail deer into a dish rag at any range. I tried the same bullet about three years ago in a 300 WSM at the same perhaps a little higher velocity. Different story. Much better bullet and expansion control. So much in fact I bought a box of 150 BT's and was much happier with those results on deer. I would say the the 150 BT's did less damage on whitetail deer running at 3300+fps than the older 180's did running around 3000 fps. Just my experience comparing the old with the new so don't rule out 180 BT's. Yes it's on WT and not elk but just the same they are tougher than what their reputation is.

Still don't trust the leadless bullets. Have had absolute great success with Nosler Partition. Shooting <1 MOA is less important than bullet performance, IMHO. But I am always satisfied with Nosler PT accuracy and am always happy with the performance. Often the partition's shoot as good as any. Including the old Nosler's I tried in the 60's that were turned out on screw machines. Those old Noslers made my 264 a big game rifle. Otherwise I considered it about like a 270 -- a good crow rifle and good for coyotes. (the 270 was a big game rifle when using the partitions also. But please forget that I ever said that about the 270's.

180 if TTSX
200 if lead.
I like the heavier bullets and 300 pushes them plenty fast.

I killed a few elk with the 150 ballistic tips and thought they were great until one blew up on a couple of ribs on a nice bull, the palm sized entry wound and 600 yard tracking job was enough to have me switch. I like how the TTSX tends to anchor them in place. They have had similar performance in 7mm 150's and 300 Wby. 180's - the elk tend to stay where you shoot them in my limited sample. I used 180 grain partitions in a 30-06 and didnt think they performed as well as the Barnes in either accuracy or stopping power on elk or deer. As a deer bullet the ballistic tip is hard to beat for knocking them down. We have had a couple of deer it took a while to find since they dropped on the spot cross canyon with no blood trail.