Berger, Ballistic tip, meant bone penetration, accubond control test.

A bullet as c-fbmi described would be great, but I have to agree that the market for $2 - $5 bullets would be VERY small, regardless of performance. Not when plain cup and core bullets that sell for about $0.35 each continue to kill game with boring regularity like they have been for well over a century. There are still lots of reloaders who won't even bite at $1.00 per for Partitions or TSX's.
 
Why would an accubond/partition cross cost 2-5$ per bullet? Where did those numbers come from?

I am missing something, match bullets don't cost that much, accubonds don't and neither do partitions, I highly doubt that if the three were merged you wouldn't just add the cost of each to come up with a price.
 
Cleftwynd said:
Why would an accubond/partition cross cost 2-5$ per bullet? Where did those numbers come from?

I am missing something, match bullets don't cost that much, accubonds don't and neither do partitions, I highly doubt that if the three were merged you wouldn't just add the cost of each to come up with a price.
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Someone else point out that he needs to work on his comprehension skills, please. ;)
 
Cleftwynd said:
Why would an accubond/partition cross cost 2-5$ per bullet? Where did those numbers come from?

I am missing something, match bullets don't cost that much, accubonds don't and neither do partitions, I highly doubt that if the three were merged you wouldn't just add the cost of each to come up with a price.
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I just threw that out there as a hypothetical price possibility, I have no idea what it would cost to produce such a bullet. There used to be such a bullet and it was made and marketed by a company called Jensen Bullets. I believe this was a small boutique bullet company and when they were available they were something like $2 per when Partitions were $0.50 per. That is what I based my hypothetical costing on.
 
If they cost that much, which they wouldn't, I probably would still use an accubond/partition on game as it would be an incredible performer.

Anywhoo, it's all speculation and dreams, if I wish in one hand and crap in the other we all know which one gets filled first.
 
dgradinaru said:
does anybody know where the .264 (6.5mm) bullet test thread go? If anybody knows can they "PM" me the link or location.

thanks,

dgradinaru
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In the Factory Ammo Forum!?!? Not sure who thought a test of component bullets should be in the Factory Ammo Forum but that's where they put it. I asked the mods to at the very least move in the Reloading Forum but nobody replied to me or, obviously, moved it.
 
A buddy of mine took a real nice moose this fall with 185 grain Berger VLD. Dropped it in it's tracks.

For every guy with a story about how a bullet does not perform, there's a hundred guys who are using them with good results.

Funny about the post above about 10 grains of bullet left from 130 grainers. I'm always left to wonder how 120 grains worth of the bullet simply vanished in these reports. Where did it go exactly? Did the back end of the case just plow forward while the front of the bullet mysteriously hung a right and bounced right off the animal? It just doesn't make sense.

This is not an untypical report of what people refer to as poor bullet performance, but once you filter through the bs it all depends on what the result is that you're looking for and how hard you want to hit the tree on the other side of the animal. Remember that all energy left in the bullet when it exits the animal is wasted energy. Just because the bullet passed through doesn't mean it did a good job of damaging the organs. There can be an upside to case separation too, multiple wound channels. Maybe not for very large game, but certainly a positive on a deer sized animal.

No bullet is going to save any hunt on a badly hit animal. Just place the shot so it passes between the shoulders and it wont go far even if the bullet doesn't stay together. Most any rifle center fire has a whole lot more energy than a bow and arrow and guys take moose all the time with them. They just know to place the shot. Hunting with a rifle doesn't change that.
 
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Check the link out to Len Backus' online Long Range Hunting Magazine and you will soon find that for majority of posters on this site "Berger is the word."

http://www.longrangehunting.com/

If you want to by Bergers in factory loaded rounds try HSM. Cabelas and Wholesale Sports periodically carry them but it's a hit and miss for calibre selection.
 
Nice experiment and appreciate the effort involved, just hard to draw conclusions from one shot each. First thing that caught my eye are the penetration figures, these are nearly identical to defense pistol round penetration figures, which I find a bit disconcerting. Next, the weight retention figures, if you believe in that and I do, are extremely poor. I wouldn't call the figures a success personally, but we're all looking for different things in bullets it seems.
 
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