Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Give Your Thoughts/Nosler 95 Grain Ballistic Tips 243 Winchester

I have used them on quite a bit of game.. They are inline for my current 243.. But I do not have unlimited faith in them for really big mulies.. I honestly prefer a larger caliber with more bullet.

We used the old-style 95 grain BTs when I was still starting the kids out deer hunting with a .243. We had mostly one-shot kills; the few that weren't were more a problem of bullet placement than bullet failure. The only new style that I have used were loaded for a buddy's 6mm-06. They were deadly on both coyotes and mule deer, and they didn't blow big holes in the coyote pelts like the old ones often did.

Saturday I put one through a 250 pound hog. He was moving fast, crossing a trail about 125 yards out. I had to rush the shot*, and wound up hitting him a bit farther back than I would have liked. The bullet went through and through, and he was done after a short run.

* My rifle wasn't in my hands when we spotted the hog. My stand mate and spotter, a third grader for whom I'm an "uncle", was getting cold and we were fiddling around stuffing hand warmer packets into gloves.

They shoot really good out of my 700adl now that I put a HS precision stock on it and had it bedded. Totally changed the rifle. Went from shooting a good group one day and bad the next, to a really consistent shooter

Formidilosus,

Sorry dude. Your evidence in invalid. Its the black tape. You would have far different results had you used blue tape on your barrels.

GB