Has anyone tried the Nosler Lead Free Ballistic Tip Bullets? If so, how did they perform on what you shot with them?

I've only shot varmints with them, but they're the most accurate of the nonlead varmint bullets that my friends and I have tried.

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Originally posted by Kyler Hamann:
I've only shot varmints with them, but they're the most accurate of the nonlead varmint bullets that my friends and I have tried.

Same here, have used them in 204, 222, and 223.

How do they per form on big game?

Are you talking about the E-tips. Extremely accurate out of my rifles and they perform great on large game, that is what they were designed for.

I prefer them over Barnes.

I punched them through a Sitka Blacktail and an Alaskan Mountain Goat via 7mm SAUM and 140gr. of Nosler E-Tip at 3,000 fps. That setup groups sub 1” at 200 yards. No, not a typo.

It’s a good bullet. I have several boxes of them in inventory and have zero concerns with them up through Elk and maybe moose. That same bullet was used on Eland.

Re: Eland, I’ll be the first to tell you, if that was a perfect shot, I wouldn’t have needed a second. The first shot impacted straight on the Humerous of the eland, shattering it dead center…the bullet then drove through a rib…and stopped just shy of the heart.

The second shot was a high shoulder and broke the spine.

I’d have zero issues with a 7mm through 1,000# game. Bigger, and only through experience, I’d want bigger and heavier.

Anyway, my 9.3 now has a lifetime supply of 250gr. E-Tips….

My only reservations about Nosler bullets are price and the durability of Accubond tips.

I bought a packet of partitions at what seemed a good price, then discovered at home there were only 25 in the box. However, on googling them I found the new price was twice what I'd paid.

Another time I bought some Accubonds and found most of the tips broken off. The shop closed before I thought to take them back.

All the ballistic tips come with problems, such as tip separation, that will be worked out Im sure, but the addition of the extra length raises its ugly head from time to time, much prefer the TSX to match the magazine and throat on some guns. Tips are the con job of the year on a hunting bullet, and probably in the mind of the beholder going back to the old Remington bronze point, that one suckered the majority. Ive seen more failures on game with tipped bullets than any other types..Accubonds have been the exceptions on game with or with the tip gone..

I want a nice, clean, wound channel that doesn't waste a lot of meat on whitetail deer.

I'm with Ray on Accubonds. Killed 45 of 62 deer this year on crop damage permits. Just killed a 300# bear in WV. All this with 265 gr. ABs in my .375/.284 XP-100 handgun. 3 of the deer at 354, 348, 346 dropped. All the other deer did too. The bear ran 20 yards with a 154 yd. shot. Last year dropped a 220# WV bear at 220 yards with the same combo.

Ive shot deer and elk and PG with Nosler Accubonds.

Kolo your packing a double edge sword! dead right there instant clean kills usually come with alots of blood shot meat from high velocity rounds whereas a slower heavier bullet kills well, but you will have what you want but with a blood trail from 15 yards to as much as a 100 yards or more in a few cases, cant have it both ways as a rule..Lots of BS on the subject as no one has figured it out as yet, its complicated and too many opines on a small number of kills soo dont over think it. Go with 150 gr bullets in 30 cal. 130 in the 270. 140 in the 284s, middle of the road bullets for deer etc and the next step up in weight for elk etc., has worked pretty good for most it seems to me,