Accubonds vs Partitions - anyone care to share?

once bitten twice shy with partitions, factory Winchester supreme loadings in a 270 win, shot poor so I went the Accubond loading, havnt looked back since (now reload ABs)

I think the accubond is a great bullet, but getting expensive down under.

cheers

WL
 
Last weekend I shot off the last of my 168 gr. Accubonds (factory loads) since I'm now into hand loading. My Sako A7 .308 liked them a lot and in the three years I've owned the rifle it has accounted for three deer each season. All good kills but a couple of the animals walked before keeling over,,,,double lung shots. Here's a pic of my first 4 shots out of a fouled barrel at 110 yards from a rolled up carpet as my rest. I had a pretty good sideways wind at the time. The second three were almost as good (MOA):



I'm hoping I can get my hand loads to be as accurate because I certainly don't consider myself to be a hot shot shooter by any means. LOL
 
They both work great, I only shoot Nosler for big game. 250 accubonds in my 9.3 X 74, 250 partitions in my Whelen, 225 accubonds in my 338 federal, 168 BT in my 308. That selection will cover all game in NA and most of the world. Good luck in the field, don't chance it choose Nosler!
 
The only rifle.I've had that I wasn't happy with Partition performance was an old Parker-Hale 7mm Rem Mag. Couldn't figure out why. The only possible thing I noticed was that some unfired rounds in the mag had flattened tips, most likely from smacking against the front of the mag under recoil, not helped by the flat followers in the magnum actions.
Swapped to Ballistic Tips & was impressed by the accuracy. Wasn't as impressed with the performance on deer...
On a whim years later I tried 250gr Ballistic Tips in my 9.3x62mm. Again, amazingly accurate, though soon thereafter Nosler dropped it, around the same time they added.the same bullet, but bonded, & called it the Accubond. Just as accurate, & good for one-shot drops on 4x large game critters so far.
Still like Partitions in my .44 Mag, & especially
45-70; both rifles being lever-actions, but when I want long-range accuracy I'll go with Accubonds.
 
^It's real life stories such as smoothbore's that turned me on to Accubonds.
Right now NBTs are my sighting in/practice ammunition. The same weight in Nosler Accubonds saved for final sight-in and actual hunting.
Want them as a single hand load, for deer/BB/wild boar in a 30-06.
 
I have shot a moose with a partition and it lived up to its reputation. That was with the good old 06.

on paper, the Accubond has been much more accurate out of both my 30-06 and 375 H&H. that being said, the partition still shot minute of vitals no problem.
 
doc25 said:
So do the ballistic tips shoot to same poi as the accubonds?
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Can't speak for every calibre & weight option, but for me I'd say YES.
For the 250gr 9.3mm it was a matter of swapping AB for BT, & using the same load with no sight adjustment needed.
 
Thats good news, I'm doing initial workup with partitions and planned to switch to AB for final tuning. Caught a decent sale at WSS and bought 2 extra boxes of AB 180s. Pretty much set for life on hunting 06 ammo.

Brutus said:
^The Nosler hand load book suggests this end result too. For equal calibre/bullet weight.
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supernova said:
Thats good news, I'm doing initial workup with partitions and planned to switch to AB for final tuning. Caught a decent sale at WSS and bought 2 extra boxes of AB 180s. Pretty much set for life on hunting 06 ammo.
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May not work with partitions to accubonds. I think the accubond and ballistic tip have the same profile. I could very well be wrong though.
 
My comparison in the above post refered to Nosler Accubond and the Nosler Ballistic Tip.
These two are almost identical in look and profile.

Sorry if it came across that I was claiming either was load data, interchangeable with the more different Partition. This was not my intent.
 
Partitions may not be a longer range bullet, but, they were not really originally designed to be one. Some guns will like the flatbase better, some won't. Some guns will shoot them very nicely at longer ranges, and they will still do what they are supposed to do, consistently.
Been using Partitions for hunting for 30-odd yrs now, never saw a reason to change that, and accuracy has always been decent, not target match stuff, but, it killed what needed killing out to 300 for me. And I have never doubted that it would do what it was supposed to do when fired.
As to battered tips, doesn't make a lick of difference to how they shoot, just not quite as pretty.
 
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