Winchester 125 gr Open Tipped target bullets

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These are pull-downs from Winchester’s 6.5 Creedmoor Deer Season Extreme Point XP.

It’s basically like a Nosler Ballistic Tip but with a much larger tip with more frontal area to expand rapidly underneath.

Most people that have hunted with them across different calibers say they don’t exit, but they really put the animals down fast due to rapid expansion.

Some people had problems with them in auto-loaders where the tips broke off. This was my first suspicion as to why there might be so many pull-downs available.



For performance on-game, they should be ideal for 6.5 Grendel’s moderate speeds as far as expansion goes.

One thing consistent about reviews with this bullet is how unbelievably-accurate it is.

The biggest potential hiccup will be whether the tips break off when being fed through an AR-15.

BC G1 is listed at .540, which is likely inflated since there is only a token boat tail, though the meplat is very secant.



If they run fine without breaking tips, it would make a nice multi-use target, hunting, and HD bullet since it seems to stick in the animal’s thorax after penetrating and fully expanding.