jro45

I fully understand that it is hard to test bullets on animals but I am afraid I have to disagree
with your comment that "What I figure is if a bullet can make it to a certain point, which a lot of bullets come apart,
brake up,& turn early and exit the books,it would be a good bullet. A round nose bullet like this should go deep.
Then again it might mush room early and ruin everthing."

Round noses generally "set up" and mushroom faster than Pointed bullets. They also tend to "hit" harder on animals
than pointed bullets. A bullet that sets up earlier generally deoesn't penetrate as far (increased resistenace etc etc),
however if you them go up in bullet weight for that calibre - or as I say and do - use a heavy for calibre bullet -
then this tends to compensate the RN opneing up earlier.

I can't comment on Hornady.

Regarding your comment " I shot a boar with my 7 rem mag. 160gr partition,
and that bullet broke bone and distroyed heart with peases of the bullet."

If you only rely on "pieces of bullet" (often called seconday fragmentation) to
penetrate and hit / fatally damage a vital organ, then I think you will
lose game over your huting life.

You have NO control over where pieces of bullet / seconday fragmentation
goes (direction, distance etc) so you cannot rely on this.

I do not have a problem with Partitions, I just think that better bullets are available.
The Partition that is left (ie the rear pill) does penentrate a long way, however
IMHO, I prefer a higher weight WITH petals that causes greater shock and a much bigger
wound channel that is less likely to close up.

Like Dphilips asked, why do you want to use RN. I don't have a problem with someone using RN
bullets as I use RN in heavy weights when shooting buffalo etc but that is because I like RN and
take shots from Angles others wouldn't. The extra
weight of the bullet and hard hitting of the RN works in my favour.

However if Longer shots are required you are limited by the trajectory.

Anyway, look forward to your reply.

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