Slug report: Accutip & Win XP3

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There seems to be a good bit of talk and questions around today's saboted shotgun ammunition, I thought I'd give a brief report on the outcome of my Accutip harvest and my sons XP3 harvest. As I posted in another thread, I harvested a heavy 9 pointer at approx 120-130 yard range (just a guess) with my Ithaca DSIII with a Remington Accutip 3', the buck dropped in his tracks and the bullet did extreme damage but still held together, I was very impressed, that's 2 years in a row with similar shots and devastating results. My son harvested a nice 9 pointer with a 12 ga Ultra Slug Hunter with Winchester XP3's, at approx 140 yards, he dropped it in it's tracks with a high shoulder shot, and it did a great job as well, so that's 2 years in a row for him with these slugs with 2 shots and 2 dropped bucks. I am extremely impressed with both of these rounds, I would recommend anyone looking for a long range, accurate and deadly round to give either of these a try. We've shared some great success with them and the best part is 4 shots, 4 nice bucks, no tracking. Good luck, hope this helps a little. Happy holidays

[lwh723]

Dec 25, 2009 9:18:12 GMT -5 @ohioguy said:

There seems to be a good bit of talk and questions around today's saboted shotgun ammunition, I thought I'd give a brief report on the outcome of my Accutip harvest and my sons XP3 harvest. As I posted in another thread, I harvested a heavy 9 pointer at approx 120-130 yard range (just a guess) with my Ithaca DSIII with a Remington Accutip 3', the buck dropped in his tracks and the bullet did extreme damage but still held together, I was very impressed, that's 2 years in a row with similar shits and devastating results. My son harvested a nice 9 pointer with a 12 ga Ultra Slug Hunter with Winchester XP3's, at approx 140 yards, he dropped it in it's tracks with a high shoulder shot, and it did a great job as well, so that's 2 years in a row for him with these slugs with 2 shots and 2 dropped bucks. I am extremely impressed with both of these rounds, I would recommend anyone looking for a long range, accurate and deadly round to give either of these a try. We've shared some great success with them and the best part is 4 shots, 4 nice bucks, no tracking. Good luck, hope this helps a little. Happy holidays

Sounds like they're working for you. That being said, I don't think a high shoulder shot is really a good evaluation point for a bullet. I think you would get DRT results with an FMJ on high shoulder shots. You really find out about a bullet when you shoot a deer through the liver or need to punch through a shoulder on a quartering shot.

My buddy used the XP3's this year. The 3 deer he shot died and we found them, but I wasn't overly impressed with the terminal performance and on two of the deer we found petals left in the deer. (These were 30-40 yard shots.) Like I said, they got the job done, but I'm not real wild about digging petals out of a deer. One petal actually ended up back in the hind leg on a straight through liver shot. But that was just a weird deer in general. A two finger entrance centered on a rib and a one finger exit between two ribs. There's a chance the bullet hit something before it got to the deer, but I would have expected a bigger entrance.

I used the 20g 2 3/4" Accutips this year. Of the 3 deer I shot, I head or spine shot them all, so my opinion on them is still up in the air.

Just my $.02

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I agree a high shoulder shot is probably not the best place to be placing a bullet, but with the experiences I've had with slugs a high shoulder shot is what we go for every time possible with our slug guns, I don't like tracking and this shot puts em down quick. I did rib shoot a ten point last year and got good performance out of the accutip, it hit the far shoulder as it exited and dropped him in his tracks. Most of the deer we shoot are fairly large in body size and horns, we just prefer to knock em down, it's just our preference, I won't hesitate to rib shoot any deer with the accutip or the xp3, I just prefer these two rounds for their long range capabilities.

[6ptsika]

My preference for the polymer tipped slugs is pretty close , but if I were forced to rank them it would be something like this !

12 Gauge

1. Remington 2 3/4" Accutip

2. Winchester 2 3/4" XP3

3. Hornady 2 3/4" SST

4. Federal 2 3/4" Barnes Tipped


20 gauge

1. Remington 2 3/4" Accutip

2. Hornady 2 3/4" SST

3. Federal 3" Barnes Tipped

I've shot all of these a fair amount on paper and killed deer with just about all of them !
While I do not normally hunt in alot of shotgun only areas I do go to a couple places each year that require them and I've put a good bit of money and time into shooting slugs in the guns I "had" and those I "have" now !
While these preferences are not etched in stone they are MY personal preferences at this time !

While this is of no importance I do happen to keep all the ammo mentioned on the shelf in my loading room !
And what that tells you is that if I'm willing to spend the funds to have it here I must be pretty satisfied with the results on paper and animal !

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My rankings would be nearly the same, I too have gone thru hundreds of dollars on slugs and my ammo box now contains mostly 3' Accutips and XP3's. Costly but worth every penny.

[6ptsika]

I might add , before the polymer tipped slugs came out I was kinda sold on the Winchester 2 3/4" Partiton Gold in both the 12 and 20 !