So I purchased some Federal Premium .270 130 grain Trophy Bonded Tip.
This bullet is basically a Trophy Bonded bear claw with a polymer tip and rings and a nickel coating for improved ballistics.
The older bear claw was known to retain 97-98% of its weight, easily beating out its nosler counterpart. Where it fell behind was in it's ballistic characteristics.
This new bullet has a polymer tip and ballistic characteristics equal to the nosler Accubond.
It also a fully bonded frontal core and a solid copper rear half so the front will peel back and stop hard at the copper rear half. Since it's bonded, it doesn't separate at all. The front is annealed for quick expansion and supposedly engineered so it expands in exactly the same way each time.
It's coated in nickel which is slightly softer than copper with three rings in the rear of the bullet so the nickel will flow into them to reduce resistance and pressure in the barrel allowing you to put more powder behind it before reaching max pressure.
It seems Federal has put this to practice as their Trophy Bonded Tip round has a MV of 3200fps while their Nosler round (and other brands) of the same weight only push 3040-3060 fps.
So what's not to like about this round?
It has:
-Ballistic co-efficient
-speed
-accuracy
-superior weight retention (6% more than any Nosler)
-flatter shooting (b/c of speed)
-Rapid yet controlled expansion.
Looks good on paper. I'll be using it this season in 130gr 270. I have mulie, white tail and Elk tags.
I will be able to report in a couple of months what it's actual terminal performance is like.
Has anyone had a chance to use this bullet on any game?
This bullet is basically a Trophy Bonded bear claw with a polymer tip and rings and a nickel coating for improved ballistics.
The older bear claw was known to retain 97-98% of its weight, easily beating out its nosler counterpart. Where it fell behind was in it's ballistic characteristics.
This new bullet has a polymer tip and ballistic characteristics equal to the nosler Accubond.
It also a fully bonded frontal core and a solid copper rear half so the front will peel back and stop hard at the copper rear half. Since it's bonded, it doesn't separate at all. The front is annealed for quick expansion and supposedly engineered so it expands in exactly the same way each time.
It's coated in nickel which is slightly softer than copper with three rings in the rear of the bullet so the nickel will flow into them to reduce resistance and pressure in the barrel allowing you to put more powder behind it before reaching max pressure.
It seems Federal has put this to practice as their Trophy Bonded Tip round has a MV of 3200fps while their Nosler round (and other brands) of the same weight only push 3040-3060 fps.
So what's not to like about this round?
It has:
-Ballistic co-efficient
-speed
-accuracy
-superior weight retention (6% more than any Nosler)
-flatter shooting (b/c of speed)
-Rapid yet controlled expansion.
Looks good on paper. I'll be using it this season in 130gr 270. I have mulie, white tail and Elk tags.
I will be able to report in a couple of months what it's actual terminal performance is like.
Has anyone had a chance to use this bullet on any game?
