Hornady 110 Atip terminal performance results

[Djfergus]

My son took a young whitetail buck yesterday evening with the 6mm 110 atip leaving the muzzle at 3370fps. Buck was around 140 yards out. Impact was directly on the crease behind the shoulder and exited the off shoulder with quarter sized exit. He only took one picture. I was eating at the Mexican restaurant whe he took it so my train of thought was focused on that instead of telling him to get more pictures . He said that the buck jumped straight up, what looked like to be 4 feet in the air. Ran about 40 yards and dropped. When he gutted it he said that internals were tore up really bad. I know the bullet mushroomed by the time it passed through vitals and had enough retention to pass through the bulkiest portion of the off shoulder. My opinion is that the bullet performed well and met the expectations of my check list

 

[B23]

What's he shooting that he can launch those 110's at 3370fps because that's cooking.

Seems that 110gr A-Tip performed well on your sons deer. Hornady did an outstanding job, with regard to bullet to bullet consistency, with these new A-Tip's. I've measured quite a few of them and it's amazing how damn near exact they are from bullet to bullet. I've heard/read all kinds of different stories as to their performance on game though. For some folks they perform great while others said they blew up and had crazy rapid expansion and others said they had nearly no expansion and penciled straight through. The one consistent comment you hear though is that they pretty much always shoot small groups.

 

[Tommie]

6mm 110 atip leaving the muzzle at 3370fps.

Dude that’s smoking. What’s the cartridge?

 

[Plumsask]

I'm not sure my 6mm AI can do that, 3300.....maybe

 

[Djfergus]

Dude that’s smoking. What’s the cartridge?

6mm PRC.

 

[Plumsask]

6mm PRC.

Once again the 6mm prc catches my interest. What brass is he using?

 

[Djfergus]

Once again the 6mm prc catches my interest. What brass is he using?

We've been using Hornady but I've also used ADG. I have more ADG but I will probably use up the Hornady first.

 

[David Milisock]

What's he shooting that he can launch those 110's at 3370fps because that's cooking.

Seems that 110gr A-Tip performed well on your sons deer. Hornady did an outstanding job, with regard to bullet to bullet consistency, with these new A-Tip's. I've measured quite a few of them and it's amazing how damn near exact they are from bullet to bullet. I've heard/read all kinds of different stories as to their performance on game though. For some folks they perform great while others said they blew up and had crazy rapid expansion and others said they had nearly no expansion and penciled straight through. The one consistent comment you hear though is that they pretty much always shoot small groups.

Unfortunately terminal bullet results that you can't be there to verify all the details are next to worthless.

I've used the Hornady Interlock and Nosler Partition for years on deer and elk, Hornady VMAX for Varmints. I've used Hornady FMJ and Match for target practice. I did my job so did the bulletts.

I've heard shooters quote their velocities from a book, not from chronagraphing the final load.

What I've found for 6.5MM Swede 140 Hornady chronagraphed 2925 FPS, in close 100 yards NO BONE HIT expansion was good, pinky sized hole but judged only from the exit hole, no bullet recovery. As distance increased to 300 yards my buddy with a 260 Remington 140 grain at 2750 reduced expansion, less than a pinky finger, judged by exit hole NO BONE HIT.

My Swede at 330 yards on a white tail, hit a rib on the near left side, broke the far right shoulder exiting. An exit hole about the size of my thumb, no recovery of the bullet. The same buddy had a similar shot at 100 yards with his 260 and his bullet was found on the inside of the hide on the far side with massive expansion with some core separation. Obviously the argument being was it the shorter distance hitting bone that destroyed the bullet or inconsistencies in manufacturing.

The loads, distances and results were reasonably reported, to me it's moot, 4 shots, 4 dead animals, 1 recovered slug with older style projectiles.

 

[Djfergus]

We've used a 25-06 with 110-115 bullets for several years. I went with the 6mm PRC to get similar recoil as the 25-06 and have better wind resistance with a 110gr bullet. A longer shot on game hasn't presented itself yet. The rifle does recoil like a 25-06 with 110-115gr bullets. This is the only deer that's been taken with it. I used 115 partitions and 110 accubonds in the 25-06. Terminally, those two bullets performed the same for me. Usually dime to nickel sized exits with medium whitetails across the ribcage. I figure that the exit with the 110 atip would have been smaller if it had not went out of the shoulder but that's just a guess.