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taylorce1 · July 3, 2009, 08:18 AM

The Accubond is a Nosler Ballistic tip with a bonded core, I'm thinking the 130's might be a little light for elk. Had a friend who used 180's in his 06 and said they were not impressive. While they both killed the deer and elk he shot with them, he said they didn't hold together like he had hoped and there were a lot of bullet fragments in his animals.

If you want to use 130's I'd look towards Barnes TSX bullets in the .270 or go with the Nosler Partition in 150 grain. Every elk I've killed with a .270 I've used the 150 Nosler. The happy medium might be to use the 140 grain Accubond.

July 3, 2009, 08:18 AM	#3
taylorce1 Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2005 Location: On the Santa Fe Trail Posts: 8,249	The Accubond is a Nosler Ballistic tip with a bonded core, I'm thinking the 130's might be a little light for elk. Had a friend who used 180's in his 06 and said they were not impressive. While they both killed the deer and elk he shot with them, he said they didn't hold together like he had hoped and there were a lot of bullet fragments in his animals. If you want to use 130's I'd look towards Barnes TSX bullets in the .270 or go with the Nosler Partition in 150 grain. Every elk I've killed with a .270 I've used the 150 Nosler. The happy medium might be to use the 140 grain Accubond.