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The “other” hpbt bullets for hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1663882" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I shot a good number of deer with the 168 Sierra MK out of 30-06 and 308 Win for a couple years doing crop damage control. Most of the time they exhibited total expansion/fragmentation about like the Berger VLD "hunting" bullets but most of my shots were within 300 yards. About 1 in 25 deer shot the bullet would pencil through. After seeing some of these bullets after they had impacted the berm at the shooting range I came to the conclusion that this is what may be happening with the pencil through shots. Some of the bullets in the berm were intact with only the nose being folded over sideways and others the nose had collapsed in on it's self making it look like a round nose fmj. Other bullets came apart with just jacket and lead pieces laying around. This may be due like others have reported the nose being inconsistent in the HP not being open enough on some. I experimented with different bullets and calibers for 15 years doing crop damage control. Most of the bullets used were designed as hunting bullets. I came to the conclusion that most cup and core bullets work very well on deer as long as you keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps and above 1500 fps. One hunting bullet that is a BTHP is the Sierra .308, 165 gr. It is as accurate as the Match King but has a tougher jacket and a HP designed to expand. It always expanded for me and exhibited about the same results as a soft point bullet. This bullet works really well in M1 Garand and M1A1 rifles ff you want to hunt with them. I have used the Sierra 69 gr MK to ground hog hunt with 223 Rem. and I can't remember of a time that it did not expand leaving quarter size or larger exits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1663882, member: 10178"] I shot a good number of deer with the 168 Sierra MK out of 30-06 and 308 Win for a couple years doing crop damage control. Most of the time they exhibited total expansion/fragmentation about like the Berger VLD "hunting" bullets but most of my shots were within 300 yards. About 1 in 25 deer shot the bullet would pencil through. After seeing some of these bullets after they had impacted the berm at the shooting range I came to the conclusion that this is what may be happening with the pencil through shots. Some of the bullets in the berm were intact with only the nose being folded over sideways and others the nose had collapsed in on it's self making it look like a round nose fmj. Other bullets came apart with just jacket and lead pieces laying around. This may be due like others have reported the nose being inconsistent in the HP not being open enough on some. I experimented with different bullets and calibers for 15 years doing crop damage control. Most of the bullets used were designed as hunting bullets. I came to the conclusion that most cup and core bullets work very well on deer as long as you keep the impact velocity under 3000 fps and above 1500 fps. One hunting bullet that is a BTHP is the Sierra .308, 165 gr. It is as accurate as the Match King but has a tougher jacket and a HP designed to expand. It always expanded for me and exhibited about the same results as a soft point bullet. This bullet works really well in M1 Garand and M1A1 rifles ff you want to hunt with them. I have used the Sierra 69 gr MK to ground hog hunt with 223 Rem. and I can't remember of a time that it did not expand leaving quarter size or larger exits. [/QUOTE]
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