7mm 120gr. Ballistic Tips - anyone with on game experience?

The 120 NBT is close to 3/4s copper; which should be enough to make even the mono/ leukemia bullet fan boys giddy enough to get floor licking drunk and organize a parade. But nooo; people want to get all concerned about NBTs made in the 80s.

We had a decently successful red and fallow cull where my shooting partner used them wound up to 3600 plus. His share came to 250 head for zerp to 800 yards. I wouldnt be overly concerned about them bouncing off of things.

NBTs aren’t cup and core. C & C jackets are formed from sheet metal; while the NBTs, Accubonds and Partitions are made by impact extrusion.
 
Dogleg said:
The 120 NBT is close to 3/4s copper; which should be enough to make even the mono/ leukemia bullet fan boys giddy enough to get floor licking drunk and organize a parade. But nooo; people want to get all concerned about NBTs made in the 80s.

We had a decently successful red and fallow cull where my shooting partner used them wound up to 3600 plus. His share came to 250 head for zerp to 800 yards. I wouldnt be overly concerned about them bouncing off of things.

NBTs aren’t cup and core. C & C jackets are formed from sheet metal; while the NBTs, Accubonds and Partitions are made by impact extrusion.
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Classic. Just classic lmao
 
The Baron said:
It's amazing what you can find when you poke around the internet for an entire, large mug of coffee.

stubblejumper... adding your search word "silhouette" led me to this little gem of a photo. It appears the 120gr. BT was created simply by shortening the jacket on the 140gr. from the front end, which means the thinner part of the jacket was trimmed. As a result, the 120gr jacket is thicker thus making it a tougher bullet than the 140's. This defies most peoples' logic, in that some fellas have driven the 140's pretty fast and experienced blow-ups on bone, which would make anyone think heavier is better and the lighter 120gr must be worse/meant as a varmint bullet. When in fact, field results show the reverse is true. Anyway... a pic is worth 1,000 words. 140gr. BT on the left and the 120gr. on the right.

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Thanks for posting that.

Dogleg said:
The 120 NBT is close to 3/4s copper; which should be enough to make even the mono/ leukemia bullet fan boys giddy enough to get floor licking drunk and organize a parade. But nooo; people want to get all concerned about NBTs made in the 80s.
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:d

Regards
Ronr
 
Works really well. My son used them for mule deer and performance was fine. These were reduced loads and he shot deer out to 160 yards.
 
They don't bounce off bull moose, 2550 fps MV with H4895. Shot was about 150 yards, it exited too

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todbartell said:
They don't bounce off bull moose, 2550 fps MV with H4895. Shot was about 150 yards, it exited too
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Nice! Is that really 2550 fps? In 7mm-08 that's a very mild load for the 120gr. BT's. I figured a decent reduced load would still run around 2700 fps (max loads push it over 3000fps)
 
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I used the 120 BTs in a Ruger M77 in 7X57, only shot coyotes with it but they were accurate and killed coyotes stone dead on the spot, not one took a step after being hit. I have no idea what the MV was, I did not own a chrony at that time.
 
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