Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 7mm-08 with 150 gr Nosler Partitions

I'm so old I remember the only "premium" bullets around were some heavy barnes round noses and the Nosler Partition. I remember before the innerlok Hornady used to brag in their advertisements about their bullets not exiting so the animal absorbed all the energy. And then RN bullets had a big share of the market still.
I have used a good number of Partitions on game, mostly the85gr...243, 140gr .284, the 150 gr. .277, the 150 and 180gr .308. Of these I only caught one (150 gr. 270) in an Elk that was running away after being hit. This shot was not needed or it may have hastened the elks demise. The only one I did not like was the 85 gr. 6MM, made narrow wound channels but they were deep. Come to think of it I did catch one of the 85's it went in over the skull and traveled down the neck vertebrae into the chest, through the heart and into the guts. Couldn't find it, pig weighed 275 pounds.