1.They are expensive.
2.They make minsemeat in the forest. I prefere to do that my self at home.
3.They leave little pices og lead all over the place.
and one and on. You can find a lot of bullets that will do the job better and cleaner if you intent to eat what you are shooting.

Johan

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Considering many dead deer, elk, and African plainsgame due to Nosler Partitions, I have never eaten a bullet fragment. But then again I don't eat hearts and lungs and I don't shoot my game in the ass.

If I want to eat, I go to a restaurant.

If I want to hunt, I usually take Nosler.

"GET TO THE HILL"

Dog

perhaps try the Hornday's-I've had wonderful success with the 180 flat base in an 06

[This message has been edited by Gary Rihn (edited 04-09-2002).]

That's my experience after talking to hunters in my region. I for one have never used NP in the field. Not because I think this is a bad bullet, but the Oryx in 308 does the job for me.

Regards
Magnar

They are not known as a bullet that does a lot of meat damage. Quite the opposite actually.

As a group Scandinavians seem to like different bullet behavior than Americans . Expansion is prefered over penetration. Low (mv 2600 or so) velocity prefered over high. Heavy bullet for caliber prefered over light.

And, what's cheap and available in the US may not be so in the rest of the world.

The 210 grain going 2850 fps
1. Held togather on Whitetail at 20 yds and left about a 1 inch wound channel.
2. Clean through both shoulders on an antelope at 230 yds - 1.5 inch wound channel.
3. Found just inside the hide on the oposite side of a large Muly shot at about 300yds - through both shoulders and the spine. Still weighed 180 grains. This was not my first shot. First one hit low - through leg and took out the breast bone about 2.5" channel- enought to put him down.

I couldn't ask for any more from a bullet.

The total cost for the Mule Deer/Antelope hunt would have made a nice downpayment on on of Mr. Echols' rifles. I may never get to do this again. The difference in price between a $.40 bullet and a $.75 bullet was insignificant.

But then again, I appear to be a bit different from some of the other posters on this board.

I like 98 Mauser's, 308 win, Redfield Jr mounts, walnut stocks, blued steel, and lower powered Leupold scopes.

I don't care to use magnums(short,long,Utra, ...), muzzle breaks, or hunt with Sierra target bullets. But I also don't care if you use them.

I thing my disliking of the Nosler comes from that it was the fist bullets I tried. They costet me 400kr or 60 dollar for 20 rounds. I used up 3 boxes to pass the norweigian hunting test. It took me some time to see that the gun heatet up and stared spreding after 5 shoots. After the test I bougt some CNC copies of the sierra hunterbullet (Not match , thay costed me less than half as much. 140kr or 20 dollars. I killed my fist moose and roedeer with that. They expand a bit to much but thay are ok. I'm going to trie the remington core lock and laupa mega this summer, just to see what they can do.
I have seen about 5 animals hit with nosler. All had bad meat damage. Also I have guttet two moose hit by nosler in the rear that have passed trow the stomac, what a mess! I guess if you only want to kill the animal without using the meat. Nosler will do fine, but I still don't like em.

Johan

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[This message has been edited by Bear Claw (edited 04-10-2002).]

According to nosler you can get bad performance if you have a rough barrel that serates the jacket uneven or has to deep grooves. I have always used mine in custom barrels.

JOHAN

NP's work, period. If you want perfect meat, buy a steer and shoot it between the eyes

The Sierra is much softer and more destructive than any Nosler...so I can only assume you speakith BS....

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Johan

[This message has been edited by 308winchester (edited 04-11-2002).]

Nosler Partitions have been around for many years and most folks, about 92% have great regard for the bullet on big game. No bullet is 100% all the time, but rest asured the Nosler Partition is one of the best a hunter can buy and use in his or her rifle.

Not to disrespect you, but where are all of these little pieces of lead you refer to? They are designed to retain their lead. I think something like 98% of it. I have never found a piece of fragmented lead from Noslers in any thing I've shot.

The soul perpose of hunting bullets is massive trauma, not neat little holes. I would rather have a bullet that tears the hell out of the guts of an animal, and kill it swiftly, than to have a bullet that leaves a nice, clean hole, but doesn't do the job.

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