Have y'all tried them on whitetail?
30 cal 155 TMK for hunting whitetail deer
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sierracharlie338
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I keep reading they perform like an Amax or Eld-M.
Good to know.
I harvested 20 inches for an AR10 from my 13T Palma barrel. I will try to hot rod these with 2000MR, see what happens.
Michael Eichele
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Not deer but dall sheep. The 155 TMK is devastating. Like the AMAX.
Thank you.
That's what I found with the 77 TMKs out of the 18 inch MK12 Mod0. Two Whitetails were bang-flops. Never have shot the 155 TMKs, sound like from your experience, they will perform like their little siblings, the 77 TMKs.
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RamTruckMan
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Any updated or additional reviews on the 155 TMK? Just bought some for a 308, hoping to shoot deer, elk, black bears and moose with it.
Michael Eichele
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Personally I would NOT shoot an elk or a moose with a 155 TMK. They are very frangible and there's not much mass there. I had to shoot a bull moose with a 155 AMAX (the TMK and AMAX are twins except for their form factor) which was never the plan but my buddy wounded a bull and I had to finish it. It wasn't pretty at all. They fragment on dall sheep and offer minimal penetration.
Once I get the load worked out with the 175 TMKs through my 06, I will share. These arw strictly whitetail loads shooting from 240 to 350.
I picked up a box of 500 from CMSports.com
I picked up a box of 500 from CMSports.com
RamTruckMan
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So the Amax/ELDM is my primary hunting bullet for elk right now, has been for almost a decade. I shoot the 147 eldm out of a 6.5 PRC currently and it has done really well on elk deer and bears. If bullet performance is similar or the same, I can live with that.
Michael Eichele
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I've had the 155 AMAX hold up better than the TMK. Key words in the last sentence in my post: "They fragment on dall sheep and offer little penetration." Yes the rest of my post is poorly written. Both the 155 AMAX and 155 TMK are twins in the sense that they have the same sectional density and are of lighter duty construction. You can hear what you want to hear but I think you'll be very disappointed in the 155 TMK on elk and moose. ELDMs have held up better than the TMKs for me as well. Just like the AMAX.
RamTruckMan
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Thats a bummer. I've seen a lot of positive reviews for the 168 and 175 and the terminal performance looks really good with the 168's and the 175's as well. I was hoping the 155 would have similar performance. BC is great and you can push them a little faster.
Michael Eichele
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I might give the 175 TMK a try on something like a cow elk but I wouldn't test them on a premium hunt. The 175 has more material and higher SD. I'd have more confidence there than the 155. The advantage the 308 has here is medium velocities. Out of a 300 win they would fragment even worse.
Michael Eichele
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Have you tried the 155 ELDM?
