Nosler ballistic tip?

[pilot24]

Culled a whack of deer using 95gr ballistic tips in a .243. No tracking needed. I did shift my POI a bit to avoid bony shoulders and such just to be sure but that wasn't a big deal.
Some fond memories of pulling the trigger and seeing hooves in the scope! Match the bullet to the job and you will be fine.

That's exactly what i use for deer and I have yet to track one of them. I'll definitely load another batch when i'm done with mine...

 

[MD]

I don't want huge bruises layered through the meat from ####### to breakfast.

I guess the impact and shock of the ballistic tips makes a bigger mess than Nosler Partitions eh?

They kill things pretty good too.

I didn't pay attention when the clerk handed me the box. When he said "these are Noslers" I thought he meant Partitions.

 

[Glockster]

Using 180 Ballistic Tip in my .308. At that velocity they hold together fairly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzx0cvGHtBc&list=UU8syJMPsISgP8eeWv3GJLGw

 

['Boo]

My daughter shot this buck @ ~275 yards last week using her 25 WSSM and a 115 grain Ballistic Tip. Even though the shot was dead on the shoulder total meat loss was under one pound. (Yes there are 2 bullet holes; why that buck didn't hit the dirt on the first shot is one of life's mysteries. )

I have used the 180 grain 30 caliber Ballistic Tip to take many deer over the years and find it produces less meat loss than most other cup & core bullets. I also have shot several deer with the 200 grain 338 Ballistic tip and they all were "eat up to the hole" entry and exits. My experience with the Ballistic Tip is that the guys who bad mouth them the most usually have little actual experience with the bullets and just parrot what they heard from others.

 

['Boo]

For comparison here is a deer I shot 3 years ago using a 25 caliber 110 grain Accubomb out of my 250 Savage.

Here is another I shot at 200 yards using a 168 grain TSX out of a 30-06

 

[Dogleg]

100 grain NBT from a .257 Weatherby at maybe 80 yards. This is the entrance side. The buck was running and went down so fast he skidded on his chin.

 

[MD]

Thanks for those pics and the report 'Boo.

 

[dead meat]

I also have used Nosler BT's on game and like them. Don't see much difference in performance to my other favorite bullet the Hornady interlock.

 

[norskie]

I have shot a whack of deer with them. I have had jacket separation - and lost a shoulder shot buck that my brother harvested a week later (rutting after a doe).

Anything in the boiler room = dead, but sometimes I encounter a fair bit of bloodshot meat.

I use them on the prairie/farm landscape - always figured that rapid disintegration was preferred to bullets ricocheting around with cattle, hunters and farmsteads around.
But if I am headed to the mountains or hunting elk/moose/bear I use Partitions or ttsx's.

 

[BigUglyMan]

I prefer a more stoutly constructed bullet, especially in a fast cartridge.

 

[Boomer]

I loaded some 180 gr TSXs and a few 165 gr Ballistic Tips for my step son's .300 Winchester, and advised he burn up the BTs at the range and use the TSXs on the moose. Guess what he did. The moose died, but the damage as reportedly was pretty spectacular. When I first got my .375 Ultra, I intended it to be a do it all, go anywhere rifle, and loaded some 260 gr BTs, which have since been discontinued, at 2600, rather than 3200 fps, for a sheep hunt which never materialized. With the modest impact velocity, if used on light density game, I think they'd perform alright, but mostly they're a varmint bullet. The ones I have left might be saved for prosperity, I have lots of better game bullets.