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.308 165gr bthp gameking
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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Norman" data-source="post: 2217596" data-attributes="member: 33163"><p>Before I switched almost exclusively to the .270 Winchester I hunted big Muleys with a .308 and a .30-06 and my wife hunted with a .243 Win. I tried various bullets in my handloads and always without exception had really good accuracy and terminal performance results with Sierra bullets. </p><p></p><p>I did find the BTSP GK's to be a bit more fragile than I preferred; and I talked with a Sierra rep at an Elk show about my results. He recommended I try their BTHP GK's. I'd never thought much about them as it seemed the hollow points would likely open up even faster than the soft points . . . but he was absolutely correct. I stayed with the 165-grain in .30 caliber and counter intuitively dropped to the 85-grain weight with their 6mm hollow point in-lieu of the 100-grain soft point. </p><p></p><p>Those hollow point Game Kings are not like a hollow point Match King, in case anyone confuses the two. Clearly the jacket is thicker with the GK's and the hollow point is an odd almost-square shape. I wasn't sure what to expect, but both my wife and I obtained great results with them. We always had exits, which were about the size of a golf ball or a little larger depending on what bone we hit. We didn't have excessive meat damage. The bullets held together very well and we didn't have bits of copper and lead frag left behind as we'd noticed previously with the BTSP GK's. Also, after tinkering with different powders I found the hollow point GK's to be surprisingly accurate. On a bench my wife once shot 5 of her little 85-grainers at 100 yards into a cluster I could cover with my thumbnail from her old Remington 788. The only "negative" I can report is that the BC on those particular Sierra bullets is pretty low. At the normal hunting ranges we killed Mule Deer at, always under 400 yards, that wasn't an issue.</p><p></p><p>Happy hunting to you!</p><p></p><p>SF -</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brad Norman, post: 2217596, member: 33163"] Before I switched almost exclusively to the .270 Winchester I hunted big Muleys with a .308 and a .30-06 and my wife hunted with a .243 Win. I tried various bullets in my handloads and always without exception had really good accuracy and terminal performance results with Sierra bullets. I did find the BTSP GK's to be a bit more fragile than I preferred; and I talked with a Sierra rep at an Elk show about my results. He recommended I try their BTHP GK's. I'd never thought much about them as it seemed the hollow points would likely open up even faster than the soft points . . . but he was absolutely correct. I stayed with the 165-grain in .30 caliber and counter intuitively dropped to the 85-grain weight with their 6mm hollow point in-lieu of the 100-grain soft point. Those hollow point Game Kings are not like a hollow point Match King, in case anyone confuses the two. Clearly the jacket is thicker with the GK's and the hollow point is an odd almost-square shape. I wasn't sure what to expect, but both my wife and I obtained great results with them. We always had exits, which were about the size of a golf ball or a little larger depending on what bone we hit. We didn't have excessive meat damage. The bullets held together very well and we didn't have bits of copper and lead frag left behind as we'd noticed previously with the BTSP GK's. Also, after tinkering with different powders I found the hollow point GK's to be surprisingly accurate. On a bench my wife once shot 5 of her little 85-grainers at 100 yards into a cluster I could cover with my thumbnail from her old Remington 788. The only "negative" I can report is that the BC on those particular Sierra bullets is pretty low. At the normal hunting ranges we killed Mule Deer at, always under 400 yards, that wasn't an issue. Happy hunting to you! SF - [/QUOTE]
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