NOSLER wants to see your success

This one is from a few years back but I just found this thread.
This cow was taken with a .308 shooting handloaded 180grn Nosler Partitions.
A small herd of cows surprised us in the woods by crossing in front of us at a trot about 40 yards ahead. I took a snap shot on this big cow that stopped to look at us. The bullet took out one of her shoulders. When I quartered her, I found the remains of the bullet (shown in the 2nd picture) lodged against the hide on the backside. It looks to me like the Partition behaved exactly as designed. It went all the way through the shoulder and nearly through the other side, retaining almost 137 grains of its original 180 grain mass. The front portion of lead nearly disintegrated, leaving a small "bubble" of lead that you can see perched on top of the base that remained undisturbed.

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Here's a cow elk I shot about a week and a half ago. This one was all about the stalk. I was hunting with a friend, Chris, and his 13yo son, David. David shot a cow and while we were preparing to process that one, we noticed a herd move out into a wide park up higher. Chris insisted I go after them, so I ate a Cliff Bar, went way down one drainage and up another in order to stay out of sight while positioning myself down wind. I ultimately crept through a dense, tangled mountain jungle with the wind right in my face and got a shot on this cow at just about 100yds. I was using my .284 Winchester which I've shot practically everything with in the last 3 years - 150gn Nosler Accubond through both lungs. The park exploded with elk when I took the shot and I immediately lost track of her in the herd. However, before they ran too far, I saw her peel off, stumble, and fall over. 👍

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More Nosler on my reloading bench than any other jacketed rifle bullets. Trusted & accurate. Partition Accubond and Ballistic tips
 
Opening day buck from 2 yrs ago we jumped while looking for a doe my wife shot. Was literally within 25 steps of him multiple times bedded down while stomping around in knee/chest high river pasture grass (most of that time having set my rifle down leaned up against a small tree). Picked it up to walk alittle farther south than where we had been looking for an hr and he startled me. On the run the first shot at 25 yards I led to much, second shot I heard a distinctive ricochet; Dang it, pull yourself together! Took a breath and brought the crosshairs along his body and as they lined up squeezed instead of yanking the trigger. Boom---Wap. He died just over the small knob in the combined corn field surrounding the farm I grew up on. Whole ordeal was over in seconds and no more than 60 yards from jumped to piled up. Snapchat-136182433_compress26.jpg

Hand loaded 125 gr Ballistic Tip in .300 Savage out of my late Grandfather's 1947 Model 99. This one has one of the last few Lightfoot mounts that came from campfire member Lightfoot. Wearing a period correct weaver K4.

Love that rifle.

Bullet entered between the 2nd and 3rd to last rib on his left side taking out heart, lungs and offside shoulder. Running these at a mild 2786 fps.

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Figured out where that Ricochet came from. Must've had a headache for a split second or two.
 
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I'm betting heavily on Nosler for my 2026 hunting season. Just purchased their Mountain Carbon in 28 Nosler, 4 boxes of Nosler ammo and 175 grain ABLR & 150 Ballistic tip bullets for my reloads.

Going to be a busy off-season


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