The NP was ground breaking when it was introduced 60 odd years ago. You can do much better now, as bullet science has progressed a lot in the last 20 years.
Not knocking your experience, which is much more extensive than mine, but I always thought the Partition was "THE" all-around brilliant design. In terms of the .30-06 class of cartridges for North American hunting, anyway. In the book "One Man, One Rifle, One Land", the author describes taking all NA big game species with an old .30-06, using 150, 165, 180, and 200 grain Partitions. Again, all this TSX/copper/monometal talk got me interested in the TSX as a "super design" but I still like the NP for what I have used it for. Do you think it would be doable to take a bison or big bear or something equally huge with the 168 TSX in the '06? Or would the 180 or 200 better fit the bill, if it will open reliably?
