Bullet performance on deer.. Graphic photo, I'll pull it if there are complaints

[BOWHUNTER45]

here is what I prefer to see.... shoulder shot on a bear with no damage ....just flat out drops them !! 300 WSM 180 GR Hornaday Interlock

[JackOfAllTrades]

I may try the Accubond, but that there makes me want to go back to the Hornady InterLock too!
 
-Steve

[deer_hnter]

I hand-loaded 180 gr. Accubonds for my A-bolt 30-06 this year; running IMR 4350. Shot my bull at about 50 yds and that round acted like a bunker buster. No damage to any meat; all damage was internal. The entrance hole looked like a cigarette burn in the hide with no lost meat. There was no exit. He ran about 40 yards and piled up. After he was field dressed, we rolled him over and a large part of what was left of his heart poured out in pieces.

[BOWHUNTER45]

You can see the bullet just under the skin ...this is kinda puzzling to me ...I have shot bears with my .270 in the exact spot and they blew straight threw ...with a 140 gr Interlock and other times they have not went threw ...same load and about the same distances ....but either way they have all taking a dirt nap ...

[BOWHUNTER45]

I hand-loaded 180 gr. Accubonds for my A-bolt 30-06 this year; running IMR 4350. Shot my bull at about 50 yds and that round acted like a bunker buster. No damage to any meat; all damage was internal. The entrance hole looked like a cigarette burn in the hide with no lost meat. There was no exit. He ran about 40 yards and piled up. After he was field dressed, we rolled him over and a large part of what was left of his heart poured out in pieces.

nice ... that's a nice clean hole for sure  I will be trying some 

[kentrek]

I wish there was more threads like this..

[barracuda163]

here is what I prefer to see.... shoulder shot on a bear with no damage ....just flat out drops them !! 300 WSM 180 GR Hornaday Interlock

+1  Very effective combo.

[Easy-E]

I used to use the Nosler Ballistic Tips. They were extremely effective with knockdown. I went away from them because the internal ballistics were just too violent. I was shooting 165's in my .30-'06 behind 58 grains of IMR 4350. Too much meat loss on my deer. My next bullet was a Speer 165 boat tail. Still fragments but not as violent as the Nosler BT's.

[RadSav]

For most non-magnum guns I remain a strong Core-Lokt supporter.  However, in recent years I have been buying more and more magnum guns.  And the more I shoot the Accubond the more impressed I get.  I won't be shooting anything at a distance greater than 500 yards with one, but it has been impressive!  Seems to have just about everything I could want in a bullet from high velocity guns at reasonable non-sniper ranges.

I will not be abandoning the Core-Lokt and InnerLocks any time soon on those medium velocity guns like the 257 Roberts, 308 Win (one of my all time favorites) and the 30-06.  They have just proven themselves way too successful for me to ever change.  And you can find them near everywhere.  And you will Never, Ever, neverever catch me shooting anything other than varmints with a Ballistic Tip.  But, in these new Short Magnums and my favored 7mm Remington I'm now solidly in the Accubond camp.  Although, finding them in stock loaded or bulk bullet this year has been pretty frustrating.

[270Shooter]

I shot a mule deer in Montana a few years ago at 485 yards with my 270 and 140grain accubonds. Destroyed his heart, bullet exited and he ran 75 yards and died. I also shot a buck in 2011 in Montana at about 80 yards or so with the same rifle bullet combo. I shot the buck twice since I wasn't sure of my first shot due to the wind and making a quick shot without a rest. Both shots were behind the shoulder and both exited. Very small entrance hole and maybe quarter size exit hole. Little meat loss.

[RClare1223]

I know you didnt ask for it but i figured i would mention the barnes ttsx. Im shooting 180gr out of my 300 weatherby and killed 2 bears with them this year both at VERY close range. The first was at 11 yards broadside with a straight pass through just behind the shoulder. It hit a rib on the way in but the bullet held together and made a little more than a golfball exit hole. Not a alot of meat loss and the bear went down in about 20 yards. The hydrostatic shock pretty much turned everything inside to jelly with minimal meat loss. The second one was at about 30 yards and was a head shot so not much to tell there but the bullet hit just above the right eye and held together and exited the back of the skull with a hole about the size of a 50 cent piece. Im loading 70gr of IMR 4350 behind them and at 100 yards my groups are one ragged hole.

[gadwall]

I agree with Carp here, to a point.  I have shot old reliable plain Jane bullets like the 145 speer boattail in my 7mm because that is what it likes best, so I never went any farther back in 1997.  There are alot of good bullets out there, old and new technology.  I started shooting the accubonds a few years ago in some of my guns and have been very happy with accuracy and performance.  Yes they are a bit more money than some of the other proven bullets out there, but when you compare the price of a box of Accubond bullets to what most of us put in the gas tank each week, the difference is minimal, so my one go to bullet if I have to choose is the Accubond.

[hillbilli]

I dont shoot the magnum calibers, and have always been pretty happy with the effects of plain corelokt or interlock bullets.. Not much has been said about the Hornady SST, but its essentially a plastic tipped hornady interlock, a tougher, less frangible bullet than the BT, usually cheaper than BT's..and it works. In the Magnum, really fast calibers- you might need to stay with bonded, (and the expense of bonded bullets) but for standard calibers..

[Hunting7mm]

I was always happy with 160gr. accubond out of my 7mm rem. mag. You do loose some meat but it always put them down.  That was until yesterday.  I shot an elk  at 240yds. on the run blew out the front shoulder and only one lung. No blood jumped him bedded in the timber and the chase was on. I ended up tracking him a little over a mile before I could put him down.  Toughest elk I have ever shot.  When I skinned him out bone just kept falling out of his shoulder.

[coachcw]

I shoot the vlds in my long range set up due to the low amount of ke needed for bullet performance , in my other set ups its the hornady sst's . whit shot his cow with a 180sst at around 2800 fps broke a rib going in top of heart and jello'd the lungs and exited through the of rib cage she went no where !