Does anyone know how the Nosler Accubond bullets are made? The use of the term "bond" would seem to suggest some sort of physical bonding of core to jacket (like Bill Steigers' old Bitterroot Bonded Core bullets), but is this actually the case? Steigers used a soldering process with his.

"Proprietary" would tell me it's their version of bonding, compared to physical, chemical. New. (They do say "weld".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gey1EgRGvGk

weld can be chemical or heat.
either way works.
heat has the ability to mark up the jacket with pock marks, and will show up as such though quite minutely even If the heat is completely controlled.

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Originally posted by BNagel:
"Proprietary" would tell me it's their version of bonding, compared to physical, chemical. New. (They do say "weld".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gey1EgRGvGk

Yes, thanks for that clip. They do indeed say "weld." I suppose their process is a trade secret and that we'll never know just how they do it. Some years ago I shot some of Bill Steigers' Bitterroot Bonded Core bullets--250-gr .358--in a .358 Norma Magnum rifle I used for grizzly bears. They really were "bonded" as Steigers soldered the jackets to the cores in his process. Jacket-core separations just didn't happen. I wonder whether the Nosler Accubonds are as foolproof re jacket-core separations.

In recent years our group has recovered some Nosler Ballistic Tips

These bullets also retained 2/3