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    Accubond Failure or Not?

    I switched to Accubonds a few years ago because I like tipped bullets and wanted a bonded bullet for my 270 WSM and 243.

    Two nights ago I shot a coyote at 125 yards with my 270 WSM and the 140 accubond. The coyote was sitting directly facing me and I hit him right in the chest between his front legs. The bullet should have exited at his spine or back.

    The bullet made a very small entry hole and no exit hole....

    Without skinning him and recovering the bullet it impossible to know what happened for sure but I was very surprised that it did not exit.

    Since I hand load but have not shot it through a chrono I don't know how fast it's running but Nosler's load manual shows it around 3100fps.
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    Did he die on the spot, or close ? If so, can't call it a failure. Maybe it didn't perform as you expected. If you use the same load long enough, and shoot enough animals with it, you will eventually come across an example of what some might call " bullet failure ". IMO, a bullet ( or broadhead ) only fails when a very good shot is executed and the animal is not recovered. Unfortunately, that also happens occasionally.

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      #3
      He died instantly. However, I chose a bonded bullet so it would punch through both sides.

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        #4
        I shot a buck at about 200 yards a few years ago with a Accubond 165 out of my 300wsm, and had no blood trail at all. Deer ran about 50 yards into some of the thickest stuff on the ranch. We looked for probably 45minutes to an hour and finally found him on the way back to the truck. Between there and the truck we found 2 drops of blood. When we got back to the truck we looked and could not find an exit wound. The bullet absolutely destroyed his shoulder and broke the other all to heck, but the bullet never exited.

        I have never used them again because of no exit, and no blood trail. Doesn't mean it didn't kill him though.

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          #5
          Accubond Failure or Not?

          Are you sure it didn't exit? Being bonded it may have left a smaller exit wound and yote hair is pretty thick this time of year.

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            #6
            Shoot them out of my .308 love them shooting great groups I have shot deer pigs and coyotes out to 450 that never moved I did shoot a buck thanksgiving day quartered to me front of shoulder edge of neck bullet was in hide behind shoulder on off side deer never moved then shot approx 185lb boar last night 200yds thru both shoulders and out to figure.

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              #7
              Tough to say what happened, iam also shooting 140 accubonds out of my 270 wsm 3 pigs one buck and a coyote, one boar didn't get a exit wound but he was shot quarting towards me and was shot on the point of the shoulder, all others had exits the coyote was 250 yards and blew through both shoulders with a nasty exit hole.. I have been pleased with the accubonds so far..

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mike D View Post
                Are you sure it didn't exit? Being bonded it may have left a smaller exit wound and yote hair is pretty thick this time of year.
                That's a very good point.... The buzzards have been on him so it's too late to check now but I did not think about minimal expansion and a small exit.

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                  #9
                  I shot a pig facing me with my 300 RUM and the 200 grain Accubond. My velocity is 3150. The bullet hit him square in the chest and dropped him like a sack of potatoes. I had an entry hole about the size of a quarter and no exit. So I decided I would investigate. I found the bullet about 25 inches deep in him. On the bottom side by his one eyed snake. Between it and the skin. I'd say the bullet worked perfectly. I've also shot 1 doe and 1 pig with the Accubonds in the 180 grain. Both were shot broadside and I had entrance and exit on both. Somehow both ran 30 yards with a Mac truck size hole in em.

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                    #10
                    I shoot the 140gr Accubonds on my 270wsm and 7mm-08. Last week I shot a 180lbs pig at 120 yards with my 270wsm through the front shoulders and dropped him on the spot. The bullet exit was the size of a baseball, the heart exploded into pieces and the opposite shoulder was completely destroy. This week I also shot a nice buck with my 7mm-08 at about 100 yards behind the front shoulders, complete pass through. The buck ran 10 yards and crashed. When I was skinning the buck all the vitals looked like if they had pass them through a grinder.

                    All the animals that I shot with this bullet they either die on the spot or ran no more than 20 yards. All of them with the exception of a 240lbs pig that I shot DRT through the front shoulder had an exit wound.
                    Last edited by RF76; 12-06-2015, 10:27 PM.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by cbrown View Post
                      He died instantly. However, I chose a bonded bullet so it would punch through both sides.
                      Pretty sure a boned bullet is designed to retain weight and not really a sure punch all the way thru bullet.

                      Another thing to remember is that shooting something head on you encountered alot of liquid in the "guts" cavity that can slow a bullet down pretty quick.

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                        #12
                        I shoot 140gr accubonds out of my .270. Shot a 200 lb sow in the chest, and it exited right below her b***hole. Then I had to hogs standing side by side feeding down a sendero. Both cleared 225 easy. Went through both shoulders of the first and about half way through the other hog. Neither went more than 30 yds. I have been fery pleased with their performance. Deer I shoot in the neck and have yet to recover a bullet.

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                          #13
                          My bet is minimal expansion and small exist... I don't see a 270 blowing up that bad on the inside... 22-250 yeah, but not a 270

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                            #14
                            Accubond or Accubond LR?

                            If Accubond I'm with Mike, you most likely got a small exit.

                            I have shot quite a few animals with 140 AB with my 280 AI and only recovered 1 bullet, that was on a shoulder shot Axis buck and the perfect mushroom was a bulge under the far side skin.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by bboswell View Post
                              Accubond or Accubond LR?

                              If Accubond I'm with Mike, you most likely got a small exit.

                              I have shot quite a few animals with 140 AB with my 280 AI and only recovered 1 bullet, that was on a shoulder shot Axis buck and the perfect mushroom was a bulge under the far side skin.
                              Standard Accubond. I have shot several pigs and an axis buck with it and it has performed perfect each time.

                              I am leaning now more towards what Mike said. I wish I had looked a little harder now

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