Originally Posted by moosemike
Originally Posted by borden811
Originally Posted by moosemike
Originally Posted by ringworm
Truly, the imagined issues with ballistic tips should be present, multiplied in AMAX BULLETS.
Mainly that they hyperexpand.
Oddly enough that's never been the case. Perhaps the person who takes the AMAX into the deer woods is better prepared to wait for a shot or pass whereas the person with the ballistic tips assume all angles are things since the projectile is marketed primarily as a hunting bullet.

I think the AMAX users are usually shooting at longer ranges. I've never heard of anyone here in the east using them but NBT's are popular here and shots are usually close. NBT's don't hold together on close shots although they bring a deers life to an abrupt halt.


They hold together just fine for me. I use the 100gr version in my 25-06, and send them out the barrel at 3350 fps. I've killed about 16 PA deer with it, at ranges from 20 yards to 400 yards, most being 100 or under. I haven't stopped one in a deer yet.



I don't stop them in deer either. But I can tell from all the bullet fragments and secondary wound channels the bullets didn't hold together. Not that I want it to mind you. If I wanted high weight retention I'd use a TTSX.


Here's an interesting experiment involving several bullets, among those a 168 gr NBT at 5 meters.


http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/7231629/1



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