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Finding a Nosler Partition inside a game animal has been a rare event for me in the 60 or so head of big game I have taken over the years.

This 180 gr NP was launched from a 300 WSM and hit the Whitetail at approximately 175 yards.

It was a raking shot from the rear that entered high on the right rear flank. It smashed through three ribs near the spine as it travel forward. It then entered the body cavity and traveled just under the spine raising havoc with the tenderloins and pulping the top of the left lung. The bullet then exited the chest cavity into the upper "armpit" area and and re-entered a portion of the very swollen rutting neck where it came to rest.

Excellent performance in my opinion. In excess of 30 inches of penetration, including through bone. I have been shooting them for 30 years and they are my exclusive hunting bullet.

GREAT deer and beautiful bullet. Text book performance.

Congrats.

cant beat that

Looks like it worked as advertised.

Great buck.

Nice buck!

nice deer... sorry about the loins...

Congratulations, uber buck.

Nice buck, The Nosler worked like it should. They always do.


That deer should put a smile on your face.

Way to go! Really nice buck there...

Great buck!

So..... a 60 year old bullet design penetrated 30"?!

Me too on the exclusive use of Nosler's - though I've been pursuaded to use Accubonds in a couple of rifles that prefer them over the Partitions. The shame.........

My own 180 Partition from my 300 WSM did a full perforation of a mature bull elk where the neck/shoulder meet at 200+ yards a few weeks back. The bullet is still sailing as far as I know. The bull didn't move far.

How much does it weigh now?

I've probably shot 25 whitetails with Partitions, never recovered one yet. That's a textbook example of why I use them, and a GREAT buck.

It weighs 109.7 grs now on the digital scale.

Gotta love them partitions

Great, thanks!

61% after 30" of penetration. Good deal.

Just hard to beat that.

I for one do not think a bullet has to retain 100% of it's weight to be effective or the best.

That buck is nice, bullet to!

Heck of a buck! Congrats. No doubt the bullet performed.

Nice buck!!! And that is why I gave up on Sierra BT and went to NPT exclusivly for hunting. Started using them in my sons 257AI 115gr and they kill everything with them. I was using Sierra 130gr BT in in my 270 untill I hit a WT buck just below the eye at about 225yds and the back of its head was still there, it was soft but not what I would have expected, I did not skin it to see the bone damage, but I would have thought it would have been blown open. It did DRT though.