The 150BTs are tougher than the 140s. I shoot them out of a 280 around 2900fps and have not recovered one yet. capt david

.338 Win Mag / 200gr Ballistic Tip 100ish yd



.280 Rem / 140gr Ballistic Tip @ 130yd



7mm Rem / 140 Gr Ballistic Tips (went in 1 coyote and out and hit the other) 250yd



.308 / 165 Ballistic Tips







.300 win mag / 180gr Ballistic Tip



.338 Win Mag & .300 win mag (200gr ballistic tip and 180gr ballistic tip)



7mm rem mag / 140gr ballistic tip



.338 win mag / 200gr ballistic tip



.338 Win Mag / 200gr Ballistic Tip



.300 Win Mag / 180gr Ballistic Tip





.338 Win Mag / 200gr Ballistic Tip





Okay I'll stop! lol. I love the Ballistic Tips and all of the Nosler Line of bullets. I've swapped my .30-06 over to 150 Ballistic Tips, My new .270 WSM will be 130gr Ballistic Tips or Accubonds, and all of my other rifles at or less then .338 Cal shoot a ballistic tip or something similar.

I've ran out of 200gr Ballistic Tips on the 338 Win Mag and have since gone to 225gr Accubonds.

Looks like you're doing mighty fine. I too am a Nosler fan. Great pix also. Keep them coming.

Best

GWB

Thanks Geedub, If I am ever in the area I'll bring Steaks and Mesquite and we can swap lies

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Originally posted by scottfromdallas:
338 Ballistic tips are very stout. I tested some of the 180s in dry newspaper. I did have core separation but I don't think it matters too much when the jacket weighs 120 grains for 2/3 of the bullet weight.

That's a fact...Ballistic Tips were/are constructed differently in different calibers within the "hunting" line and even differently within the same caliber in some cases, depending upon weight. Both in jacket configuration and lead alloy.

I don't think they make anything over 8MM now because the public perception is that the Accubond was necessary in calibers 338 and above. Too bad because the bigger Ballistic Tips in 338, 35 and 375 were damn fine bullets without being glued together.

TG,

You can still find the .338 180s on Shooters Pro shop occasionally and they still make the 200 ballistic silver tip.

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Originally posted by Buglemintoday:
Thanks Geedub, If I am ever in the area I'll bring Steaks and Mesquite and we can swap lies

And as an old Irish friend is want to say,
"A lie, well told, will serve as good as the truth any day". I'd add "especially in a hunting camp around a fire".

Best

GWB

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Originally posted by scottfromdallas:
TG,

You can still find the .338 180s on Shooters Pro shop occasionally and they still make the 200 ballistic silver tip.

I find the .338 Ballistic Silvertips @200 gr. work great. I load them in my 338 RUM. They are a killer. All have passed through to date.

GWB

Just got a box of combined Technology 338/200 Gr. silver tips to try in my 338/06. I wonder if they are the bullet same as the Nosler 200 gr ballistic tips?

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
Just got a box of combined Technology 338/200 Gr. silver tips to try in my 338/06. I wonder if they are the bullet same as the Nosler 200 gr ballistic tips?

Here is a pix from the Nosler #7 manual detailing the cutaway and construction of the NBT and the CTBST and verbage in that regard. It would appear to me that the only difference is the lubalox coating and the color of the plastic tip. The NBT's tips are color coated per caliber.




One thing I have noticed IIRC is that the CTBST's seem to fly about 100+ fps slower than the NBT's using the same load density in a couple differnt chamberings. Been a while so I don't remember the exact loads. Bobby Tomek shoots the CTBST's. He could probably speak to the velocity issue more than I could.

I do know that I like them in my 338 RUM. I'm loading the 200 gr. CTBST's over 95 gr. IMR 7828, Fed. 215M primers, 3.065 OAL for +/-3,180 fps.
This happens to work perfectly with the Leupold 4.5 x 14 scope with B&C reticule. Dead on at 200, then the first stadia line below the cross hairs at 300.
Took an Aoudad ewe at 267 yds. and a white-tail doe at 310 yds. with the RUM the week between Christmas and New Year. Both were pass throughs.






Best

GWB

From the Horse's mouth at Nosler.
The Combined Technology bullet has been replaced by the Ballistic Sivertip. I have mixed them up (on purpose) and they shoot to the same POI.
In lead core big game, the toughness scale (bottom to top) is Ballistic Tip Hunting, Accubond, Ballsitic Sivertip, Partition and E Tip. (one could argue over the last two)
(The E Tip is just a Barnes knockoff and IME performs like a TTSX, where as a TSX is tougher.)
Not a bad bullet among them if used at right velocity on right game in a rifle that like them.