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125 Accubond in .308 Win
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<blockquote data-quote="IMR3031" data-source="post: 5610665" data-attributes="member: 17341"><p>Provided I sort things out with my lease and am able to hunt deer this next season, I'm strongly considering this bullet in .308 Win. I've hunted with .308 since 1981 and have taken a bunch of deer with it, nearly all of them with the Speer 165 BTSP. My reason for going to a lighter bullet is very simple- the .308 I will use this year is a Ruger American Predator- handy little 18" barrel, and light- but the recoil from my favorite 165 gr load is not terribly friendly to the arthritis in my hands- -my shoulder and cheek are fine. I have other calibers I could hunt with, but we just moved up to TN and have a smaller space than I'm used to- so since my wife hunts with a reduced load in .308, I'll load for that one rifle caliber and store the rest of the bullets, brass, and dies until we're no longer renting.</p><p></p><p>I've already done a fair bit of load testing with the 125 Accubond, and have an accurate load for this rifle that averages just over 3100 fps in the 18" barrel.</p><p></p><p>So my question is-- for those who have used this bullet on whitetails, what do you think? How has it performed when hitting bone-- penetration, exiting, etc.?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IMR3031, post: 5610665, member: 17341"] Provided I sort things out with my lease and am able to hunt deer this next season, I'm strongly considering this bullet in .308 Win. I've hunted with .308 since 1981 and have taken a bunch of deer with it, nearly all of them with the Speer 165 BTSP. My reason for going to a lighter bullet is very simple- the .308 I will use this year is a Ruger American Predator- handy little 18" barrel, and light- but the recoil from my favorite 165 gr load is not terribly friendly to the arthritis in my hands- -my shoulder and cheek are fine. I have other calibers I could hunt with, but we just moved up to TN and have a smaller space than I'm used to- so since my wife hunts with a reduced load in .308, I'll load for that one rifle caliber and store the rest of the bullets, brass, and dies until we're no longer renting. I've already done a fair bit of load testing with the 125 Accubond, and have an accurate load for this rifle that averages just over 3100 fps in the 18" barrel. So my question is-- for those who have used this bullet on whitetails, what do you think? How has it performed when hitting bone-- penetration, exiting, etc.? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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