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I've shot several animals with the 120 BT, and it was always effective. Dropped a 10 point whitetail last year, which only ran about 30 yards, and a good axis deer, which dropped in his tracks. A few years ago I did win big pig at the Campfire Hog Hunt, killing a 190 lb boar That boar did catch the bullet but I did not think to retrieve it. All bullets were launched with 50 grains of Big Game, which is max but safe in my rifle.

I did catch a 120gr TTSX in a boar a few years ago, but he was laying with his back toward me, kicking from the first shot. He kicked too long and I spined him. We found that bullet in the bottom of the chest.

How deep is deep enough? Would a pass through qualify?

Never tested the 120 ballistic tips vs the 140 gr Accubonds in ballistic gelatin or on wet newspaper, but I'd bet I've killed over 100 critters with the 140 grain Accubonds, out of a 7mm-08,and have yet to not have a pass through or recover a bullet. I loaded Ballistic tips for years, and as luck or bullet construction would have it, many times the bullet would lodge under the hide on the offside. Where I hunt, I want two leaky holes and a blood trail a blind man can wade in. Now admittedly I don't kill elk and moose, but on game 300 lbs. and under, to date, at the distances I shoot, that is the case 100% of the time, I get those two leaky holes with the 140 gr. Accubonds.













a two-fer (one 140 gr. accubond passed through both hoglets)









Just Sayin!



GWB

A few rifles chambered for 7mm-08








ya!

GWB

This was exactly my wife's experience this past year on a pretty nice 10 pointer. About the same velocity as you, shot tight behind onside shoulder, took out top of the heart, busted offside shoulder, no exit, and we recovered the jacket absent the core. Jacket weighed 46 grains. Deer was shot at about 140 yards and ran into a brushy wooded area. Almost no blood, like a couple of tiny specks, but he only went probably 40-50 yards total so we found him fairly easily. I was ok with the performance, the deer only ran a short distance, but the wife was not happy with the lack of exit and and no blood, so I've worked her up a good load with 120 gr TTSX for next season. I'd use them again. They work, well enough.

It has been my bullet of choice fo over 15 years

I like 140 NAB in the 7RM, have 150’s to try.

Have been working on loads for my bud to take to Africa for PG, loading 160 NAB over RL-26.

120 NBT is a great 7-08 bullet.

DF

I've long lost count of the number of creatures the 7mm 120 grain Ballistic Tip has disposed of for me. Most have been with mild-mannered cartridges like the 7-30 Waters and the 7mm Bullberry. The photo below is of a brute that I took in moonlight from 190 yards, my longest "night" shot to date. The MV of the load was 2651 fps. I usually don't care to show blood or gore in a picture, but I made an exception with this one as it shows that the Nosler managed to exit this rather large target.




It's been rare for me to recover one of the 120 grain Nosler BTs, but when I do, they often look like this one, which was removed from the shoulder of a large boar taken with a slight quartering presentation. (And before anyone asks, yes, the blue-tipped bullets are indeed 7mm/120 BTs. They were an overrun for another manufacturer and sold as "seconds" through Shooter's Pro Shop.)

I love to look at blood and gore...

Big ole hog. Looks like that bullet took him out.

DF

That recovered bullet actually came from this hog. In the photo from the previous post, that bullet exited and was not recovered.

Not a 7mm-08 but I use the 120 BT in my 7x57 at the same 3000 fps as the OP. Took 1 six pt Whitetail and two pigs down near Crystal City a couple of years back. All were one shot kills.

The Whack-Master lives!

Good to see ya' posting BT.

ya!

GWB

Bobby probably knows as much about fine scopes in dim light as anyone.

And not from what he read on line.

Hmmm...

Maybe from experience killing a bunch of hogs at night.

Ha! Ya reckon..?

DF

You can say that again DF.

140 AB, 225 yards, 7mm-08, one shot, exited.









P

I bought a thousand of them.








P

I've always liked that photo. Tells a story.

IIRC, one poster said something about the old bearded guy, probably the guide...

Didn't you provide a rather curt reply...?



DF

Is KMA more appropriate than GFY?

I never get tired of that pic. Dad was 77 at the time, his biggest bull. He turns 81 in July. Parkinson’s has robbed his hunting career but he’s doing well.

I was in charge of arranging the hunt, and we all tagged out. My dad won the dollar for first and biggest, which he cherished. Oh, and he used my handloads.





P

The best to your Dad, his smile tells the story. I know that is a real family memory.

You done good.

DF

Pharmseller, that photo of you with your father is a true family keepsake. You fellas were making memories that will last a lifetime.
Blessings to you and your family.

Nice!
I like the 150 BT, but seriously doubt that any animal would know the difference.