Did these recovered Nosler Partitions perform correctly?

[HairTrigger]

id say those failed I've had good luck with accubonds. an grand slams an trophy. bonded bear claws also sirrocos in my 7mm an the barnes x are terrible

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Read the intro to the nosler reloading manual.  You aren't the first to question a bullets performance with the critter in the freezer ; )

[C-Money]

Read the intro to the nosler reloading manual.  You aren't the first to question a bullets performance with the critter in the freezer ; )

  Point taken, meat is in the freezer x2. When you advertise "Introduced in 1948, the Nosler Partition Bullet is the standard by which all others are measured.", and put a bunch of nice mushroom pics at various velocities, I expect better. My family has used Partitions a bunch through out the years on deer and elk, and they have always worked well. These two bullets have me scratching my head.

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Yeah I can't remember what the called it, the dead elk complaint, or something to that effect.  Who knows, there are always a few anomalies, but those bullets have been proven so I wouldn't switch over till they really fail. 

[BULLBLASTER]

Being that the animal is dead and in the freezer I would say those did their duty... to kill the target. Would they still have failed if they looked the same but passed through?

[C-Money]

Yup. Even if they made it out, and we could some how know they looked the same, to me, YES they failed, They fell apart! I paid more money to buy a bullet that is suppost to NOT fall apart.

[huntnphool]

 I have been using the 140 NP's for years and never had one fail to to its job. My brother uses the 100gr. NP's in his .243 and has not had an issue either. They have been good bullets for all of our hunts.

[Rick]

accubond all the way.

Wrong answer. I used a 165gr Accubond from my '06 to kill a cow last season. The bullet looked EXACTLY like the lower Partition in the first pic. No mushroom at all,and it looked like the bullet was cut in half.

She only went about 40yds and piled up with shredded lungs,but the Accubond performance certainly didn't fill me with confidence.

[Atroxus]

I don't get some people. I can see complaining that the bullet doesn't look like the perfect mushroom advertised, if the animal got away, or ran an abnormally long distance after being shot. Comments like "The animal went down fine, but I am unhappy with the bullet performance." just confuse me though. As far as I am concerned if the animal dies relatively quickly with minimal meat destroyed, then the bullet worked just fine.

[wadu1]

id say those failed I've had good luck with accubonds. an grand slams an trophy. bonded bear claws also sirrocos in my 7mm an the barnes x are terrible

I have had 4 neat little holes on both sides of a blacktail with Noslers in .30 and .270 (same deer). Then switched to Grand Slams but did not get the groupings I wanted, but they took down game. Four years ago I tryed Barns TSX, my groups closed up and every animal droped like a tone of bricks; all were through and throughs all .30's 06 & 308.
 

[demontang]

I dont get it how can you complain about a bullet the killed an animal? I can see if the bullet failed to open or just blow up. Ive used nosler BT and Accubonds and Ill have to say the accubonds are one wicked tough bullet.




Both bullets are .338 200gr bullets and put in to deer at around 150yds both traveled quartering away through the ribs/vitals and hit the of side leg bones. And they where load up to about 2980mv. i have a 225gr accubond from by bear also that looks the same and a few mor bt too.

[whacker1]

That is what my accubonds looked like as well.  They definitely retain more weight. 

[C-Money]

Trust me, I hear all your words about the buck being dead. The 140gr partition from the 7mm-08 droped him in his tracks, Dead as dead can get. I wish they held together is all. MRS C-Money will be elk hunting with the same load, and sure want the bullet to mushroom , hold together and drive deep. I hope you folks understand what I am getting at, two bucks are dead, they both dropped like a sack of potatoes, and we are very excited people to have harvested two bucks. I am just not sold that the extra money is well spent to buy a box of 50 Nosler Partitions vs buying a box of 100 Hornanday interlocks for the same money. I found my 150 Interlock from my 30-06 in my spike bull a few years back, it held together, mushroomed fine, bull went a few more steps before I watched him fall over.

[demontang]

Well I can tell you this, Ive had bullets fail bad and I still use them. Its a matter of one thing having a flaw and a bullet fails. I had a few hornady v max fail and I was really close to never using hornady again but I loaded up a different batch and they worked as always. You have to think how much we expect from a bullet and the amount of force they recieve. the partition is made to shead its front half and retain the rear, look how many african hunters trust them, I would go out and shot my elk with that gun beacuase dead is dead just think if those would have past through like that you wouldnt have had a problem

[Curly]

Trust me, I hear all your words about the buck being dead. The 140gr partition from the 7mm-08 droped him in his tracks, Dead as dead can get. I wish they held together is all. MRS C-Money will be elk hunting with the same load, and sure want the bullet to mushroom , hold together and drive deep. I hope you folks understand what I am getting at, two bucks are dead, they both dropped like a sack of potatoes, and we are very excited people to have harvested two bucks. I am just not sold that the extra money is well spent to buy a box of 50 Nosler Partitions vs buying a box of 100 Hornanday interlocks for the same money. I found my 150 Interlock from my 30-06 in my spike bull a few years back, it held together, mushroomed fine, bull went a few more steps before I watched him fall over.

I've never understood the Nosler Partition lovefest.......  I always read where they are designed to come apart, so I don't think the bullets failed; they probably performed just like Nosler had envisioned. 

I agree with you that the Interlock is a better bullet.  I also think the Speer Grand Slam is equally as good as the partition.