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I haven't been able to find the 260 Accubond in forever. I don't look for them everyday and bought two boxes of them quite some time ago. Now that there almost gone there gone from the lineup at Nosler.

I used a 300gr. Partition at 2,500 fps to take a deer. Seemed to work just fine.

How far did you have to track it??

I'm a big fan of Partitions, but I'm shooting a 375 Whelen AI and I didn't think a heavy premium bullet would be necessary.

I also have 375 H&H AI and that will get the heavy Partitions or??? (If I go to Africa next year.)

I suspect the TSX bullets would work well too.

Pic from the stand.

You might try the GS Custom 200 Gr. HV mono. A little pricey but worked well on mule deer, elk, and a coyote last fall. 3100 out of a 20 in. 375 Ruger.

I've been using 300gr Sierra game kings , 66.0 gr hybrid 100v. Gets me 2280 fps and makes a nice 200 yd soft shooting deer load .. my rifle doesn't have issue dropping 3 in an elongated hole at 100yds .

Honestly was just thrown together from the surplus stuff at the bench

235gn Speer over 80gn of Rel 15 for 2850fps.
Any Deer, Any Size, anywhere.
John

I'm finding the suggestions interesting. The only input I may have would be on your cast bullet. Wheel weights and linotype at 50/50 would be a pretty hard bullet. Probably no expansion, per se but maybe shattering if you hit bone. I think pure wheel weights or even wheelweights cut about 4 to 1 with pure and velocity kept at 2,000 fps or less should work quite well.
Good Luck,
Rick

FWIW, Ive used the Lee 255gr 378 bullet unsized with Lee alox driven with about 15gr of an obsolete shotshell powder for about 1500FPS. Duplicates the old 38-55 loqd. Whats amazing, is this load stays well under an inch for 3 shot groups, but itsPOI is about 8" off the jacketed bullet loads.

I killed three mule deer with a .375 H&H in thick timber at 25 to 75 yards. The 285 gn Grand Slams expanded well and there was no discernible blood shot meat. Even on the one that went through both shoulder bladed and the spine. Just a 1-1/2" hole in one side and out the other. One perfectly mushroomed bullet was recovered but it went through a 6" Lodge Pole Pine before striking the deer.

Thats one way to control expansion. Get it started in advance before hitting soft target.