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190gn and up in .300 win mag?
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<blockquote data-quote="EXPRESS" data-source="post: 316497" data-attributes="member: 1441"><p>The Matchking for hunting is a fairly hot topic, they are in effect target bullets, not intentionally designed for hunting. This means that you can get unpredictable results, however in my experience they are a fairly fragile bullet and tend to fragment rather than act like a solid. </p><p>I have not used the 220gn MKs before so I will try them in some wet newpaper or other medium just to get an idea of what they will do.</p><p></p><p>I doubt that it will act as a solid, they have a thin jacket, but in the case of the 220gn SMK you should still get a large portion of the bullet holding together towards the rear, which along with the fragments coming off the front can provide devastating damage.</p><p></p><p>Bullet placement is always going to be the key, just that with MKs you can't afford to take raking, heavily quartering shots, but we can never afford to take these kind of shots in LR situations anyway. </p><p></p><p>To put things into perspective, I have used 70gn ballistic tips out of my 6PPC esclusively for nearly 10 years and have shot well over 100 animals with that load, some of them big deer and pigs. In the worst cases, the entire bullet disentegrated while only the copper base continued, but still causing a lot of damage. I have never lost a animal with those tiny bullets.</p><p></p><p>I have some Berger 190gn hunting VLD's coming which might end up being the ones I take, but until then I am not going to worry too much about the Match King debate, they have and will continue to kill a lot of animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EXPRESS, post: 316497, member: 1441"] The Matchking for hunting is a fairly hot topic, they are in effect target bullets, not intentionally designed for hunting. This means that you can get unpredictable results, however in my experience they are a fairly fragile bullet and tend to fragment rather than act like a solid. I have not used the 220gn MKs before so I will try them in some wet newpaper or other medium just to get an idea of what they will do. I doubt that it will act as a solid, they have a thin jacket, but in the case of the 220gn SMK you should still get a large portion of the bullet holding together towards the rear, which along with the fragments coming off the front can provide devastating damage. Bullet placement is always going to be the key, just that with MKs you can't afford to take raking, heavily quartering shots, but we can never afford to take these kind of shots in LR situations anyway. To put things into perspective, I have used 70gn ballistic tips out of my 6PPC esclusively for nearly 10 years and have shot well over 100 animals with that load, some of them big deer and pigs. In the worst cases, the entire bullet disentegrated while only the copper base continued, but still causing a lot of damage. I have never lost a animal with those tiny bullets. I have some Berger 190gn hunting VLD's coming which might end up being the ones I take, but until then I am not going to worry too much about the Match King debate, they have and will continue to kill a lot of animals. [/QUOTE]
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