Thread: 7mm08 Projectiles - who's using what?

Hoping to get the forum's wisdom again.

Had a very accurate load for my 7mm08 using 140gr Sierra HPBT projectiles, but discovered that they were absolutely disintegrating on impact. One was between the eyes head-on on a small-medium pig, so I can sort of understand that, but the other came apart on a slight quartering away shot on a second equally sized pig. On the quartering away pig the projectile only hit a rib, then completely minced all the internal organs and didn't even nick the opposite side of the body cavity. Projectiles would have been travelling roughly 2500f/s on impact.

While both pigs were very dead as a result, I'm not happy with the bullet performance - these weren't giant pigs, and the projectiles utterly disintegrated after hitting moderate and no real amounts of bone respectively. I certainly wouldn't be happy hunting red deer with it.

After finding this out, I saw that others like the ELD-M's and X's... but they don't make them in 140gr, so no luck there. If I was rolling in cash I'd shoot Accubonds, but seeing as I'd like to tune my loads and practice a lot, this gets pretty expensive. I do have a box of Nosler Ballistic Tip, but haven't tried it yet.

So, what are you using as a 140gr, .284 projectile?