Hornady 150 gr sst need info on this

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deerwhacker444

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Barnes bullets recovered from deer at different ranges:
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Hehe,..those are either muzzleloader bullets or you need to invest in some rifling.

Glad my 30-30 can still kill deer at whimpy velocities with cheap bullets so I don't have to worry about such silliness..

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Forgot to add, I load the Rem. Accutip (Hornady SST) for my bone stock un-matched numbers K-31, and it would probably go MOA if I had optics attached. IME, it's an accurate bullet @ 2369 fps.

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If you are contracted to cull or have deer pets you can kill them with a .22 short and it is legal.
Not defending the 50gr but just saying we may not know the whole story.

I would not be afraid of using the sst at your velocities..If it was accurate I would try it. But I like to try things for myself.
One thing i have done with the 55 V-Max fired from my .223 was keep the neck and head of a deer i harvested during bow season.
I then shot it with the 55 gr too see what it would do.

I was impressed and began using it on Hogs and deer and anything else I wanted to kill instantly.
The worst bullet I have used was the new sierra palma 155gr.
That thing is built tough and just pencils right through. I was hitting them at above 2900fps and NO expansion.
Very accurate though and likes to go fast . 3176 FPS in my 30-06 !

I use the 155 A-Max in my 30-06 and my .308 now.. the 168 is a good one also in A-Max as is the 178.
They all fragment (A-Max) and if you do not like that then do not use them.

I like it as it seems like a hand grenade went off inside them.
178 retains too much weight and I have shot deer in the shoulder and destroyed the shoulder I hit and passed through and destroyed the other shoulder.
Shrapnel also took the heart out in the same shot.
That 178 is brutal and I quit using it, only because I like more meat on my deer that I can eat.

I was not aiming at the shoulder during that bang flop roll down the hill with the 178 I was aiming at the neck.
It was an issue with working a great load at 100 yards and not testing it at 200 yards..I was lucky to get a 12" group at 200 yards.
Oddest thing I ever seen.. Kept under 1/2" at 100.
Now I test at the distances I will be shooting.

Pokinfun that load sounds like a .308 load.
For some reason I was reading 308 and not 300 win mag.
 

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The sst is just an interlock, with a tip, but tends to be a little more violent wounding than plain interlock.. pics are 165 sst at .30-06 speeds(2800), range 40 yds.. entry quartering away, 6 ribs in a row, 3” plus width wound, bullet penetrated through to stop against hide in front of the shoulder, no core left in the jacket. I shot one a couple weeks ago with the 7/08, 139 sst @2800, range 65yds- about same result, there was some core left in the jacket. On a straight broadside the ‘06 loAd and the 7mm both open well and exit. Not sure how well it wound do at 300 mag velocities, but its a good deer bullet at 2800-2900 fps..
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