Hornady A-tips for hunting

[nakneker]

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d ask…

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Make up some cheap media(70-75% water weight) and shoot some. Should be easy to see if they act like varmint/hunting or strictly match bullets. Could be fun to see what a 300 gr 338 does to a block of wet paper.

 

[B23]

You'll find they have a love/hate relationship with those that have used them on game. I don't know a lot of people that shoot them but one particular friend of mine has used them in his 338 Lap Imp and liked that them. I know another guy that used them in his 7mm and won't be using them again anytime soon.

Generally, what you hear from the folks that weren't happy with them and it's kind of ironic considering one is a 180° from the other is they either over expanded far too rapidly and fragmented while others said the penciled straight through and didn't expand enough.

 

[Bc'z]

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d ask…

Sounds like a pig hunt for terminal performance is in order.

 

[boltfluter]

I am hoping to try the 153 6.5 on a cow elk this fall. Will do some serious testing for expansion this summer before using on an elk. May have have to find a few long range Coyotes to volunteer this fall before the elk hunt. Lol
Paul

 

[Doug Casner]

Hornady makes alot of good hunting bullets. I thought the A-tips were target bullets. But I might be wrong. Good luck. Doug

 

[dthomas]

I've heard that they act the same as the eldm. I haven't used the a tips but have had good success with the eldm.

 

[1raggedhole]

According to Hornady, the A-Tip is designed for paper punching, not expansion or terminal performance. ELDX is the closest recommended hunting bullet.

 

[Larryh128]

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d ask…

I shot some 166 Atips in a 7 Saum a few years ago, SUPER accurate. I killed a crow at 483 yds with it at 8x. My oldest son uses this rifle and he center punched a 8 pt at about 225 yds. Perfect double lung shot, the buck ran about 200 yds without a drop of blood even going tru some remaining snow patches. We found it piled up on a runway. 7mm hole in and out. Not even close to being a deer bullet. Great target bullet but apparently crows don't kill hard.

 

[Larryh128]

I am hoping to try the 153 6.5 on a cow elk this fall. Will do some serious testing for expansion this summer before using on an elk. May have have to find a few long range Coyotes to volunteer this fall before the elk hunt. Lol
Paul

Don't, read my lower post.

 

[wboggs]

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d

I shot some 166 Atips in a 7 Saum a few years ago, SUPER accurate. I killed a crow at 483 yds with it at 8x. My oldest son uses this rifle and he center punched a 8 pt at about 225 yds. Perfect double lung shot, the buck ran about 200 yds without a drop of blood even going tru some remaining snow patches. We found it piled up on a runway. 7mm hole in and out. Not even close to being a deer bullet. Great target bullet but apparently crows don't kill hard.

Well spoken

 

[wboggs]

Well spoken 220 yds with no blood trail on a late evening shot will be a lost deer unless you are really lucky or have a dog. There are plenty of good game bullets out there.

 

[mike mccormick]

I'm sure that if the Atip was a suitable hunting bullet, Hornady would be marketing them as such, and loudly.

 

[nakneker]

The responses are kind of what I expected and why started I the thread. Thanks for the input.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I'm sure that if the Atip was a suitable hunting bullet, Hornady would be marketing them as such, and loudly.

Some probably are looking for a laser for a pronghorn hunt, but it would seem stupid to consider them for any big game.

 

[pcmacd]

Make up some cheap media(70-75% water weight) and shoot some. Should be easy to see if they act like varmint/hunting or strictly match bullets. Could be fun to see what a 300 gr 338 does to a block of wet paper.

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d ask…

One of the big deal match bullet makers (might have been Nosler) shot target bullets at game in an African safari ten or 15 years ago, and claimed performance typical of any speciality round.

Look at it like this: Would YOU like to be shot with an A-MAX?

As for me, I would not even like to get shot with a pellet gun!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/comments/1dpxe4j/hunting_with_match_ammo

 

[Doug Casner]

I saw a video of a guy shoot a antelope with one, killed him dead but where he hit him he could have killed him with a full metal jacket. Heart shot. Ive had bad bullet performance from hunting bullets. I wouldnt press my luck. Core in one place jacket in another but bullets are better than they used to be. We used to cut up our deer . You got to see bullet performance first hand. Sometimes it wasnt good . Doug

 

[wboggs]

I saw a video of a guy shoot a antelope with one, killed him dead but where he hit him he could have killed him with a full metal jacket. Heart shot. Ive had bad bullet performance from hunting bullets. I wouldnt press my luck. Core in one place jacket in another but bullets are better than they used to be. We used to cut up our deer . You got to see bullet performance first hand. Sometimes it wasnt good . Doug

For years I would look at the wound channel and try to recover the bullet on all animals. Some surprises but very few with thre good ones.

 

[Webster]

Anybody have some experience using Hornady A-tips for hunting. I friend just gave me quite a few in 338 and 7mm. I’ve never even considered them for hunting but I thought I’d ask…

The manufacturer's website will tell you what each bullet is intended to be used for.

 

[B23]

The trend, based only on what I've read and people I've talked to who have used them, seems to be that the 6.5 and 7mm A-Tips tend to have less expansion with smaller wound channels while the 30 cals tended to rapidly over expand and the 338's seemed to act more similar to a Berger.

I'm certainly no bulletsmith but my S.W.A.G. on it is impact velocity and what they impact on likely plays a fairly large part in the expansion characteristics of these things.