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I’m not a reloader, and use factory rounds in all of my hunting. Has anyone taken a look at Nosler’s new Whitetail Country ammunition? The cross section of the bullet looks exactly like an Accubond without the plastic tip. I wonder if that’s a clue as to its performance.

I picked some up, along with some other boxes, to find a load my new Featherweight likes. Both this new load, and the ELD-X, group at just under an inch. I’ll be trying the Nosler next week in VA for my first whitetail hunt.

Which cartridge

6.5 CM.

Don’t overthink this. Make a good shot and you’ll be fine. Deer are easy to kill with almost anything if the placement is good. Get some practice in if time permits, dryfire if that’s all you can manage.

Everyone is wising up that you don’t need an ultra premium bullet to kill a deer.

Good luck on your hunt

Or dials, mils, etc......

I saw that the solid base bullets have already made it to SPS as factory seconds. 270 130 gr. 7MM 140 grain and 6.5 140 grain.

https://www.nosler.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=solid+base+bullets

looks like nosler is still pretty proud of there seconds...right around 45.00 per 100

I bought some of the new tipped sierra game changer bullets for $20.00 per hundred a few weeks back so pick your poison and they were first

Yep some expensive for sure but the difference being a bullet that is designed for deep controlled expansion versus a bullet designed to fly apart in a weakly controlled way and be very accurate.

Gamechangers don't fly apart...........

you have first hand knowledge of game changers flying apart ?

No I assumed they were Sierra's answer to the ELDM and ELDX. Both open quickly and make fragments leaving a medium sized twisted chunk of bullet.

The Gamechanger uses old school technology, a thick jacket and a harder core, to retain weight and penetrate without partitions or bonded cores. I've used it in .270 to take several animals. Good expansion and so far, always an exit.

I wouldn't mind testing a bullet with those characteristics.

I’ll stick with my ELDM’s. I prefer a bullet that sheds weight and dumps energy into the animal over one that retains weight and punches deep, or exits with much of its energy remaining.

Energy “dump” is irrelevant. The bullet kills by penetrating to the vitals and damaging them. It doesn’t kill by energy transfer.

I wonder if the energy-transfer notion came about because many of the same bullets that don’t exit are the same ones that really wreck vitals.

Energy transfer sure doesn't hurt.

"Ultra Premium" can mean a lot of different things to different people.

I bought so many blems and overruns back when they were cheap, I’ll never run out of hunting bullets. My grandkids will be killing deer with them. I have some 150gr .308 NPs that cost $8 per 50 from Graf’s.