I recently aquired a Win M70 Classic Stainless in 375 H&H (24" bbl). I am interested in loads and comments for/about the Nosler 260 gr Patition ands Accubond bullets.
Thanks HL

I worked up a RL-15 load with 260 accubond that I used in Namibia. Very accurate and a great plains game bullet. I recall I started about 69 grains and worked up to 71. This is from memory, so please consult a manual and start up at their recommendation. Bob

Loads for my 375 H+H are69.0G RL-15 W/270 G Fail Safe=2645MV.72.0G Varget W/ 270 Hornady Interlok=2650 MV.69.0G RL-15 W/260G.Accubond=2647MV.46.0G. 5744 W/250G. cast=2198MV.Incidentally,this cast load has almost same point of impact as the 260 Accubond load,+ much cheaper to shoot W/no scope alterations.

I loaded 50 rounds of Nosler 260 partition with 75 grains IMR 4064 and took them to RSA as a gift for my PH as he wanted that load for eland and other large plains game.

I didn't use them myself.

This guy is a real fan of Nosler's partition bullets.

Just a note of caution: one of my hunting buddies took his Winchester M70 .375 H&H with 260-grain Partitions at 2500 or 2600 fps to Africa and used it on eland. He had two of the bullets completely disintegrate on the eland's shoulder joints and never make it into the body cavity, with shots from under 60 yards. Now this was a very large eland and perhaps its bone density was higher than normal as a result, but all involved were very surprised at the outcome.

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He had two of the bullets completely disintegrate on the eland's shoulder joints and never make it into the body cavity,

I believe this but the Eland died didn't it?...

I've personally believed the partition bullet was flawed by the shedding of the lead core of the foreward cavity. It's for this reason that I personally prefer the A-Frames and that's what I shoot when I hunt. They are a tad spendy for rolling rocks around in the gravel pit however.

Many folks have posted that the partition is "designed intentionally" to shed the foreward lead and frankly I'm not buying that for a second!!!

What can't be denied is the very large number of shooters that recommend them and shoot them. Success is the loudest poster of all.....

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He had two of the bullets completely disintegrate on the eland's shoulder joints and never make it into the body cavity,

I believe this but the Eland died didn't it?...

vapodog:

The eland died because the two shoulder shots crippled it, allowing my buddy to get in close to carefully put in two more shots that avoided bone.

I haven't taken any game or reloaded the accubond bullet yet but have found it to be spectacularly accurate in my wincheste m70 classic. I have reloaded the 300gr partition out to just over 2500fps and found accuracy and performance to be impressive. You will really like your rifle but the classic really begs for a nicer synthetic stock.

I've used Partitions practically since day one and really can't fault them. I'm sitting here looking at 2 30's and 1 375 that were used in Zim. All three have the front jacket folded back to the belt and more or less perfectly expanded. I don't think I have EVER recovered one with the front core inside the jacket. These three were recovered from 3 different Black Wildebeest. The funny thing is about the 375. The front core was recovered WITH the rear portion but seperate. The front lead is perfectly mushroomed and the inside of the front cavity is unmarked. That indicates to me that even though the front core seperates if it doesn't hit bone it travels straight. I use IMR4350 and have no complaints with it.Have lost very few animals and those that were lost were lost from poor shot placement not bullet failure. Had very poor performance the one time I used A-Frames in my 06. Shooting Impala for bait and they just sailed thru, 30 in 30 out and the Impala didn't even hesitate. Had to break the neck to get them. After 2 this way went back to using 375 for baits. Have not used A-Frames since. For 375 I generally use 260 Partitions or 300gr Woodleigh solids.