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Nosler doesn't like to talk about their early bonding issue.

I don't know all the details, but I know it existed, they fixed it, and if you sent your defective bullets back to them they made it right.

I had a box of the defective bullets. I figured out something was wrong with that box when I put them on paper, and never took them to the field. I've had very good results the Nosler Accubonds.

I'm just waiting for them to make one in .22 cal.....

Rock Chuck,

Would be interested to know who you talked to, as the last name of the person who explained the brief (and now very old) AccuBond problem was Nosler.

Have had people from other bullet companies tell me similar stories of how one person on the assembly line screwed up a run of bullets, always by trying to speed up the process. Which is exactly why most companies that make big game bullets test them regularly to be able to catch any problems as soon as possible. This doesn’t mean some won’t slip through now and then, just as a bad batch of scopes or cases or whatever won’t slip through. But sometimes a few defective products do leave even the best factories.

110 grain .257" in the 257R, 25WSSM, and 25-284.
130 grain .264" in 260, 6.5x55, and 6.5-284.
140 grain .277" in 270

Several MO, NE, and SD whitetail deer, 2 CO mule deer, and a few CO, NE, and SD coyotes.

The heaviest deer that I've shot to date was a one shot, bang-flop, taken with a 110 grain AB from the 25WSSM.

This is a 110, fired from my 257 wby with a mv of 3410. This was into wet newspaper at about 20 yards, IIRC.

I killed a very large bull Gemsbok with a 140g Accubond from a .270 Ruger #1 and the recovered bullet weighed 89g. At the shot the bull spun around took two steps and fell dead. The bullet was under his hide in the opposite shoulder after taking out both shoulders and his heart. I am a firm believer in these bullets.

Me too.

I'm a fan of the Accubonds as well. I also use other bullets, but still a fan. I've found them to be very accurate if you take the time to develop a good load. This can take some diligence. As you all probably know, they're a little sensitive. I have had good luck jumping them with stout powder charges..

Performance on game has been on par with the Sierra Game King. I don't use many partitions, as I like a boat tail more often than not.

Couple elk and a handful of deer with them, in 7mm/140, .30/180, and 8mm/200 flavors. A few of the bullets got tested. Most notable was my WORST shot on game. I had a new .325 WSM that was going elk hunting. Thought I'd take it deer hunting for grins. Ended up getting a very close shot on a quartering away 3x3 blacktail. Which was groovy and all, until I screwed it up and shot him in the ass. The bullet hit the hip joint and detonated it (the hip) then went the whole length of the deer and ended up under the hide in his throat area. Perfect mushroom that weighed ~140 grains for 70% retention.

One of the elk I killed with that same bullet tested it pretty good too.

The buck with the .30/180 broke the shoulder and angled back through the liver and exited the flank.

The 7mm/140's were, if memory serves, pretty standard issue smallish blacktails at close range through ribs. I don't remember much other than that they worked just fine. That was from the era when my private land honey hole was peaking both in terms of deer numbers and tags issued. Some years I had 3 tags which is crazy for Oregon. Got to try a few different things. Those were the days, haha.

Very good bullet IMHO and IME. For what I want from a bullet for normal hunting distances it's pretty much perfecto.

I've used the 165s and 180s in various 308s. I've only taken white tails with them but they have always performed well and are ver acuracte. I switched to Interbonds recently but only due to local availability. Acubonds are fantastic.