308 Norma B/T 125gr for hunting?

[TStone]

I managed to get a bit more information on the bullets above. Muzzle velocity was a mild 2740fps, first hog was shot at 80m and second one at 175m.

[aimpoint]

Obviously biased from my side because i only use monolithics, but doesn't that bullet on the right in your picture look so much better than the other two?

[treeman]

The two bullets on the left are 90gr Nosler Ballistic Tip Hunting bullets from a .243 win, recovered from warthog. Retained weight is written below each.

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I think standard Hornady I/Locks - PMP hold together a bit better than that, S&B loves to separate like these bullets. Not often you find a Sierra G/K separating as in picture above.

[Messor]

I managed to get a bit more information on the bullets above. Muzzle velocity was a mild 2740fps, first hog was shot at 80m and second one at 175m.

Were the bullets recovered from live animals?

[TStone]

Were the bullets recovered from live animals?

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[treeman]

Were the bullets recovered from live animals?

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[A-R]

Were the bullets recovered from live animals?

I see what you did there!

[treeman]

I see what you did there!

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Messors oldest question? Who can quote it ?

[Hearties]

I love 95gr Ballistic Tips in my .243 @ around 3050 fps. They just work and I haven’t lost an animal yet - from Springbok to Gemsbok. Very underrated IMO and, while they do expand, they tend to retain around 50% of their original weight. Never managed to recover one from a live animal…

[Messor]

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Was just being overly cryptic again of course.

Merely pointing out the bullet did exactly what it was supposed to do, and the pictures illustrate the heavy construction of the bullet jacket and base, those bullets did not blow up it simply lost its core somewhere along the line.
A dead animal is dead, you don’t need to shoot a hole through a pig to kill, yes for sure the accubond would have held up slightly better, but you yourself have posted pictures of 50-60% weight retention in an accubond.

The evidence does not show it’s the perfect hunting bullet, the evidence shows it’s a viable hunting bullet when used correctly, and that is what I was trying to say to the OP and Treeman, it’s not a varmint bullet at all.

On smaller game, our usual plains antelope, I think this is a bullet that balances tissue destruction and penetration rather well, meaning quick killing without bullet disintegration.