Does anyone remember them...with the green tips??
I've got a bunch of them that I might load up in my 375 Ruger and I though I read that they were fracturing on lighter game like deer, coming apart prematurely. If they are crappy, I think they'd do just fine for blasting coyotes.

See this thread.

George

Thanks, George...just what I was looking for.

I have shot a couple of boxes of them in my 375 Scovill at 2500fps and they work great.
In testing I found that they virtually duplicated the performance of the 260gr partitions. John Barsness told me his testing was similar.
They are a very good bullet for most game IMO.

They make my m70 shoot like a target rifle. Same as the Accubonds.

the accubonds are a multimillion dollar investment to fix the ills of the BTs..

good enough for me, that nosler understands the short comes of a bomb for hunting game

I seriously doubt if there is such a thing as a 260 gr. .375 cal. failure, if it comes apart it just tear a deer in half....If it punches through it will leave a good blood trail and he won't go very far..I have shot Impala,Zebra, Wildebeest, and Kongoni with solids in the .375 and they don't go far..

If they are explosive then slow them down a little, that works with about all bullets, most of todays bullets are going too fast anyway for the ranges shot in Africa, and thats hurts bullet integrity..

Velocity is for West Texas and the plains of Montana etc. makes your gun shoot flat and when it hits the game it is usually slowed down plenty and thus it works great.. but smack one up close and you got bloodshot shoulders.

As usual moderation is the key to all bullet performance. Hit that happy medium and to me that is about 2800 to 2900 FPS on long range rifles with a heavy spt. bullet or 2300 to 2400 with a big bore. All bullets seem to work in that range.

Ray: as usual you make more sense than most of these yahoos. Must be all them horses you ride, pounded your brains back out of your butt up to your head where they belong. I got mine rearranged this spring by a bronc - put me down for 9 days, but then I went out and bought 3 more - you're so smart tell me why! Hahahahhahaha. My next project (I Hope) is a 411 Ryan Express - 411 bore on a 400x375 long case. 400 grains at 2200 out of a Springfield action w/o the recoil of a 458. Nice 'chuck rifle. Good luck and best Holiday Wishes.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I seriously doubt if there is such a thing as a 260 gr. .375 cal. failure, if it comes apart it just tear a deer in half.

Ray
that is a bullet failure. The death of small deer is NOT a valid test of bullet failure. An explosive .375 bulet of near .300 sd is a failing bullet. PERIOD.. That same bullet at an eland results in a wounded animal, not a clean kill.

I know you don't support torturing animals to death, and obviously nosler felt the same

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accubond

Ray,

That's what I did with them. Ran them slow. Left big chunks of bullet in a severely curved wound track. Killed the little deer ... yes. Made a mess ... yes.

The 300 grain TSX did much better. Still DRT ... much less meat damage with a predictable wound track.

Call it bullet failure. Call it lack of predictability. I changed bullets and shot the BTs on paper. They are VERY accurate. I got some 1/4" groups with them at very high velocities.

Each to his own.

Sounds like they'll be good bullets to break in my Alaskan. No sense getting attached to them, I can't get more. Thanks for all the answers!

I really like them in my 375 JDJ in a contender. They work quite well for pigs and deer. Old 4X4 if you want to get rid of them, drop me a line and maybe we can work something out.