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Gents, I'd just like your thoughts on the 160gr AB and the 7x57, experiences, for and against.

John

I like Accubonds there very accurate and work well on game...your 7x57 will just be the delivery system.....Give em a try!

I shot the 160 AB in my Ruger No. 1 RSI chambered in 7x57, and it was one of the two most best-grouping bullets that I tried. (The other was the 150 E-Tip.) I never had an opportunity to use it on game, but we have used the 160 AB in my wife's .280 Remington. It worked well on deer and on the one elk that she shot with it.

I'm curious to see what people say. The accubonds are the best grouping bullets out of my FN made M70 in 7x57. Like others, I have no experience on game with them, though.

Have only used the 140gr AB in a 7x57 and that was on deer and antelope.

Very accurate and very deadly.

Easy to load and to shoot.

Steve

Not the same Accubond you are looking about, but I caught a .257 110 today in wet phone books from less then 50 yards (3426 MV), performance was flawless. About 9" of penetration, great expansion.

After using AB's on 2 elk and 3 deer (180 gr from a 300 WSM), I'll never use them again. They're highly destructive. I hunt to take meat home, not to leave it mangled on the hill.
I agree that they're some of the most accurate bullets I've used but that's where the quality ends.

Shoot'em in the ribs and not the rear shoulder - minimal meat loss with any boolet.

A bullet in the ribs can easily hit the far shoulder. Splat. No meata lefta.

That's part of the genius of the Partition IMO. At high speeds it sheds the broad frontal area (in exchange for dramatic trauma) leaving the rear portion to continue on in a long, if modest, hole. The monos work much the same way with less dramatic trauma on the front end. Moderate speeds tend to be kinder in terms of trauma while still giving good penetration. There aren't many expanding bullets in the 150-175 range that might concern me in the 7x57. I haven't, but wouldn't be afraid to poke a 160 NBT into a moose.

johnfox,

I've used a bunch of different bullets in the 160-grain class from the 7x57 to take animals from pronghorn and springbok to kudu and moose. It's hard to get one to misbehave, whether in "killing power" or meat destruction, at 7x57 velocities. I'm pretty sure you'd be very pleased with the performance of the 160 AccuBond, not matter your criteria.

Many thanks for the input.

I'll be running them through a new Win70 featherweight, and be hunting mainly fallow deer.
They're too much of a good thing for a fallow but there's an increasing population of Sambar deer in the area I hunt so I'm looking for a bullet that will perform on the bigger critters if the opportunity arises.

The 7x57 isn't ideal on sambar, they're a big animal with a lot of tenacity, and a lot of hunters are running 300mags, 9.3x62s and bigger to hunt them, but with careful shot selection, I think it will be enough if push turns to shove.

Last summer we did a family trip, wife and three son's, to Africa culminating in a 7 day hunt in SA. My youngest of three, age 14, wanted to do the "traditional" hunt so loaded 160 gr AB's in his Walther Mauser. He figured it out... They were running 2700 fps and dropped everything he connected with.





And his first shot worked...

Awesome!

johnfox,

If you connect with a sambar with the 7x57/160 AccuBond would love to hear a field report!

Sambar in Oz are one of the few animals I'd still be willing to fly over an ocean for....