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Tim: Hard to argue with boots (and animals)on the ground.

No heartburn here. I just don't like the LOOK of mashed in tips, or Redheads! Some do , but I don't, there are other equally as good choices. I think the Accubond will largely displace the Partition. Especially when all the " set in yur ways types/ my pappy always saaze" are out of the picture.

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Thoughts of a plastic tip arrived in my noggin shortly after they (Nosler) began making red, green, and yellow plastic tip bullets back in ???? (I was very troubled by the mashed noses as are some here.) I was too young then to recognize wisdom. I was ripe for the copper infatuation which was developing. Ironically, after the dust has settled following the arrival of many 'new, improved' ideas in bullets design, the boring old Partition still bears the torch as a premium among premium designs.

My ideal bullet would be a a .308, 200gr boat tail partition with bonded cores front and rear and a plastic tip. Icing on the cake would be to coat it with that blue stuff Barnes used.Talk about sex appeal...

Would love to know what talent Nosler has run off.

Jeff I would differ with Mr. Art with all due respect... :)Opinions and experiences will differ... If a Partition isn't enough, I have Bitterroots...

Stuck in my ways? Uuhh.....not really.

I was shooting Bitterroots before many even knew what they were,or even existed.....Ditto with the original TBBC's from Jack Carter(do many know the "originals" had no solid shank? But could not hang with the Bitterroots with that design, because they overexpanded? The reason for the solid shank in the later version.....I figured that out before I got to use them on game....by shooting them into wet newspaper). But the Grizzly by Joe Abrams behaved better;just like a Bitterroot.

Nosler Solid base....used plenty;shot hundreds, killed game and watched them in the field,too....back to the old Partition!

There's 10 boxes of 7mm 140 AB's here....to replace the 15-20 boxes I already shot....took them to Alberta twice and killed my biggest Mule Deer with them.Got it here,mashed up like and mangled against the ribs,and what's left weighs 59 grains. It killed but they sure don't like 3250 fps at 175 yards...a velocity that has barely even slowed down a 140 Nosler Partition in game animlas.....And I told you about the AB tip that decided to part company with the bullet and stoved up the magazine

Ditto for the 7mm 150 Scirrocco,old and new version.twice to Alberta.....not bad but the new ones strike me as a TOUGH. I need to experiment a bit more with that one....and shooting a few weeks back told me the 7mm 150 BT and Partition both go exactly the same place to 400-500 yards; not until 600 do we see the BT edge it out by about 5" or so....

Don't have as much experiences as some with plastic tips....but then, I don't choose my BG bullets based on what they "look like",or by reading charts....I pick them based on my shooting and how they kill animals.And I sure don't worry about a bashed tip, because I have shot thousands of Partitions, and "know"(not guess)that it doesn't matter at all....

In the meantime, I have a single recovered 7mm Partition,a 160 that tumbled on brush,out of many fired at game...all the other 140's and 160's exited on game...can't seem to find one!Even those used at 450-500 yards.(I know that's a chip shot today ....they behave exactly like the one's fired at 20 feet, and 50 yards, and 200....and further. I can't say that about many designs.When you shoot a Partition at an animal, you know pretty much exactly what will happen.

Closed minded? Nope.....Just practical....

Ya... agreed pretty much (at least from what I've seen).

Partitions are like an Inline 6 engine. A simple, mechanically stout design proven by many decades of success; easy to pick on for this-or-that reason but in the end- strong like ox, grunts like a country gal in heat, and damn near mechanically as reliable as a rock.

That's not to say that 4-bangers, V6's, and V8's don't have things to like too. That's as far as that analogy needs to go.

But still, if Noz put a tip & boattail (and better BC) on Partitions, I'd sure give them a run.

My "pappy" didn't hunt....or shoot,except in WW II...

Me, I tend to judge things for myself...

I learned about Partitions not by gazing at bullet tips,but by shooting and killing game with them.The AB is a fine bullet as long as you can keep the plastic tips from falling out.Never seen that happen? You gotta get out more.....when you do,I can guarantee you it's like lookin' at Redheads. I'll take the mashed tips myself....

I would guess the AB will replace the Partition along about the time the 270 and 30/06 get relegated to the dust bin.

[bleep]...I hope not!

Me too........!!!


Of course, now that we've all declared Noz will never make a plastic tipped Pt, there's probably one in the works.........

Casey