Hiya,

Just looking at a good deal on some Nosler partitions and wondered what your preference was for the above. I've ever really got the 308 shooting that well so I thought I might try something a bit different.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Currently using 168gr TTSX

K

What weights are they Kiri?

If I were to shoot heavier bullets, 180 grains and up, I would probably go for the round nose bullets as per the recommendation of our Teuto-American friend.

In the lighter weights it would seem to be a good idea to go for the spitzer for it's better ballistic co-efficient, flatter shooting being the only reason I can think of for shooting the light weight bullets.

Based on my experience an 180 grain soft point doing somewhere between 2500 and 2600 fps is very effective and flat shooting enough for the shooting you will be doing with the 308.

Personally I thought the best compromise was the 165 grain spitzer.

Where did you find ...roundnose... Nossie PTs in .308, are these the old screwmachine made semi-spitzers? If so, they are NOT usually very accurate and I would not spend my coin on them.

I have loaded and shot them in various chamberings over the 43 years since I began handloading, but, found the late '80s and onward spitzer NPs FAR more accurate and probably better penetrators, as well.

For a .308Win. and I have had about a dozen rifles so chambered for deer, Fallow, Mulies, Whitetails, Blacktails or anything you would hunt in dear old Blighty, I would load a 165gr. Nosler Accubond over 44grs.-RE-15, this is about "max" and shoots like a drill and kills shit very dead, "toute suite" as the French have it.

I agree w/Dewey.

For a .308 Winchester I prefer 150 or 165 grainers.

FMPOV a .308 Winchester can hold it's own with a .30/06 Sprg. up to a 165 gr. bullet - heavier than that & it goes south pretty fast.

Try some 150/165 Nosler Partitions & Nosler Ballistic Tips. If your rifle won't drill holes with one of those 4 bullets then you need to use the barrel as a Tomato Stake.

The only "Round/Flat" point or Semi-Spitzer shaped Nosler Partition is the .308 Protected Point 180 grainer. I loaded a box once & they were superbly accurate & terminal performance was excellent.

I talked this over with Gerry last year, and we agreed upon the 150 grn for the 308 Win as possibly the best weight.
After all this is the bullet weight it´s military twin the 7,62 Nato was made with (or more correctly a 147 grn FMJ boat tail).

My little Kimber Montana like the 150 grn Nosler PT and the 150 grn Woodleigh PP best.
Those two bullets print clower leafs at 100 meters.

Partitions expand well enough that standard spitzer works very well.