TassieTiger wrote:So a 120gn ballistic tip from nosler is not going to perform the same as a 120gn ballistic tip from hornady...?
Bugger...that’s a lot of testing to be done.
Ive just had a thought with regard to what you may mean from "performance" & i see bigrich has already raised the point....& that is with performance on game....so not sure if you may mean this, or as i originally assumed, that you meant point of impact on paper...?
I know in 7mm bullets in the 120gn weight, my understanding is the sierra pro hunters & nos bt's are made for heavier game, whereas the vmax are a realtively frangible bullet giving explosive results on light game.
The velocity you drive them at will also be influential to the explosiveness....
I found sierra 120gn pro hunters just pencilled through goats, yet vmax 120's stopped them with decent holes no matter where they were hit, & that was with basically the same powder charge.
So as bigrich has alluded to, if you mean terminal performance on game, if you only want one load for various game, bullet selection will be a compromise.
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