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Any of you fellas have a good bit of experience with 120NBTs on large body deer? I'd like to pick your brain for a bit.

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Loder, I'm sure you'll get lots of positive feedback on that bullet.

Picture the 7mm 120 NBT as the 150 gr NBT, but shortened to preclude some of the thinner forward jacket, but with the same heavy rear jacket. I've used the 150 gr NBT from a 7mm-08 to penetrate 32" of a 700 lb bull elk. I have no doubt the 120 will do anything needed to a 200lb whitetail, and frankly would have no qualms using it on elk.

The biggest whitetail I ever shot was with a 150 gr Speer Hotcore from a 308. It punched through both scapula's and exited. Deer was around 240 lbs live weight (was 200 lbs dressed). I think the 7mm NBT is the full equal (or better) than a 150 Speer Hotcore.


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Several posts on here about the 120 being used successfully on elk.


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Originally Posted by 10gaugemag
Several posts on here about the 120 being used successfully on elk.


I was just going to say, he might want to ask Dogzapper on here(Steve Timm) he gave some detail a while back about this being a very tough bullet and using it in a .280 Ackley to take a multitude of game including elk. Send him a PM loader.


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The last two whitetails I’ve shot fit your category perfectly. Both over 200 live weight taken with a 7mm-08 and the 120 gr NBT. One at 130 yds, and the other at 225. I didn’t recover either bullet. Neither deer went more than 20 yds after being shot. Velocity at 12’ from the muzzle was 3100 fps. Use it with confidence.


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Another really cool thing about the 120 grain Nosler BT is that it performs just as well at lower velocities as it does at higher.

I use this bullet in a 10.5" TC Encore in 7TCU with a muzzle velocity of around 2100 fps. I have taken 5 deer with that handgun and the 120 grain BT performed superbly on all of them. Shortest shot was about 25 yards. Longest was 137 according to my rangefinder.

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The 120 may be well suited, not sure, what I can tell you is that the 140 at or above 2800 has let me down twice and will never do so again.

Now to be fair , I hunt from steep angles, climbing stand anywhere from 25-40 feet up with shots ranging from right under to 200 tops. Twice, I didn't get an exit wound thus the cork wasn't popped on the bottom of the barrel resulting in zero blood trail which is important for me in the swampy thickets we have here.

Personally I would opt for something more like the TTSX, LRX, GMX, E Tip or partition style on bigger bodied whitetails if you also shoot for lungs and not neck or high shoulder.


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My daughter shot a old 3x4 muley that went over 200 lbs. 120 NBT factory load out of a 7-08 Rem youth rifle with a 20 in tube.

Range was 368 yards.

Buck was looking back over his shoulder. Bullet hit half way up the body at the back of the rib cage and exited just off the edge of the off shoulder.Left a quarter size exit hole. Buck ran 30 yards and fell over.

She normally shoots the 120 TTXS factory load but this bullet was extremely accurate at 300 yards.

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You'll have absolutely no problem.

We use the 120gr TTSX (basically similar) Barnes Vortx in our 7mm-08.

Taken piles of Canadian deer & 1 bull moose.

This is deb's buck from last night. maybe not 200lbs, but close. Broadside ribs, heart, ribs. Ran 35 yards.

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They work just fine

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120 NBT out of my 284 at about 200 yards.
Fair sized mule deer buck, pass thru the chest.
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Originally Posted by HandgunHTR
Another really cool thing about the 120 grain Nosler BT is that it performs just as well at lower velocities as it does at higher.

I use this bullet in a 10.5" TC Encore in 7TCU with a muzzle velocity of around 2100 fps. I have taken 5 deer with that handgun and the 120 grain BT performed superbly on all of them.


I'll second that. I've used it in a 7-30 Improved at around 2400 fps, two holes and blood trail a blind man could follow. Can't ask for more than that

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It will work fine, have killed a deer that heavy, but have killed several 200 lb plus pigs with that bullet.

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My 15 year old son shoots that bullet in his 7-08. While I admit to being surprised by this, we have yet to catch one.

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Awesome buck pathfinder. Congrats to you guys.


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