Does anyone have experience with the A-Square bullets. I am interested in the Dead Tough soft point and solids, in 375 and 416.
Does the point of impact stay the same with the different bullets as A-Square claims?

Used a limmited ammount of their 1980's vintage ammo and have had clients use it. The softs and solids shot close enough to each other to be usable in my issue rifle ( An F.N. 375).( Softs shot about 2" high at 100m - But as each rifle is an individual- you are going to have to try it.

Just got back from a 21 DAY Tanzania safari with Bundu Safaris and used the Triad .458 solids, DT soft point, and lion load. They worked perfectly for Lion, Leopard, 3 Cape Buffalo. All three shot to the same point of aim. This was new ammunition from A Square hot off the press. I also used the DT soft poing on Giraffe in SA and dropped him in his tracks with a brain shot at 100 yds.
I am very pleased with the 465 grain performance of all three. I recovered all three types of bullets and they performed as advertised.
Robert

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Originally posted by RobertJr:
Just got back from a 21 DAY Tanzania safari with Bundu Safaris and used the Triad .458 solids, DT soft point, and lion load. They worked perfectly for Lion, Leopard, 3 Cape Buffalo. All three shot to the same point of aim. This was new ammunition from A Square hot off the press. I also used the DT soft poing on Giraffe in SA and dropped him in his tracks with a brain shot at 100 yds.
I am very pleased with the 465 grain performance of all three. I recovered all three types of bullets and they performed as advertised.
Robert

You may be the first person I ever heard say they liked the Lion Load. Is this a new make up for it?

KC,

The new "Triad" of DGR bullets is North Forks bonded soft point, monolithic Cup Point, and monolithic FN solid.



This was fired from a 450 Dakota at 100 yards with a 3 X scope.

I was not impressed with either the 30 gram (465 grain) A-Square RN solid or Dead Tough, which was not so tough.



The bullet with hardly anything left is the Dead Tough on the far left.

I shot the A-Square into elephant and it had about half the penetration of the North Fork FN.



I shot the Dead tough at 2500 fps into water buckets and it lost all its frontal area. It has a hard lead core which makes the bullet fracture rather than expand. Not a good idea, but it obviously worked for you at much lower velocity.

Based on this performance I went with the North Fork bonded soft which worked great even withg a 400 grain 458 at 2,700 fps at PB range on buffalo.



Shown is 450 grain at 2550 fps and 400 grain at over 2,700 fps.

Andy



Andy

I had a client use them last year in a 416 on a 21 day safari. The softs performed very well and although the solids didn't deform etc - I wasn't particularly impressed with their penetration. He shot a fairly wide variety of game with the solids and not a single one exited. They did shoot to the same POI though.

Assuming your a homeloader might I suggest you try Woodleigh SP & PSP and GS Custom FN MS. If you can't get GS Custom then I'm told Northfork also make a good FNMS...... but I haven't tried them....