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Hornady 165 SST vs Nosler 165 BLT Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 704084" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p>I have shot four whitetails and one mule deer with my 308 MilSpec using 165 Ballistic Tips and Hornady 165 SST's. They were loaded to 2800FPS with 45.3 gr of Varget. All were shot in the heart lung area except for a very big bodied mulie which was shot right on the shoulder at 175 yards. The whitetails were shot between 200 and 560 yards. All wre dead in seconds or less. From a couple of recovered bullets, the SST's were perfect mushrooms with the base of the bullet pretty well intact. I didn't recover any BT's. Both bullets produce about the same accuracy of .25-.5 MOA with the BT's being slightly better than the SST's in my rifle. I like these bullets at 308/30-06 velocities at the longer ranges since I have seen the the heavier jacketed bullets lack expansion, and have a lower BC. Since the SST's were about half the price and came in boxes of 100 vs 50, I settled on the SST's. I have also used 150 gr SST's in my 270WSM loaded to 3100 FPS. They have a BC of .525, and have performed very well on deer sized game with the bullets holding together even at short range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 704084, member: 10291"] I have shot four whitetails and one mule deer with my 308 MilSpec using 165 Ballistic Tips and Hornady 165 SST's. They were loaded to 2800FPS with 45.3 gr of Varget. All were shot in the heart lung area except for a very big bodied mulie which was shot right on the shoulder at 175 yards. The whitetails were shot between 200 and 560 yards. All wre dead in seconds or less. From a couple of recovered bullets, the SST's were perfect mushrooms with the base of the bullet pretty well intact. I didn't recover any BT's. Both bullets produce about the same accuracy of .25-.5 MOA with the BT's being slightly better than the SST's in my rifle. I like these bullets at 308/30-06 velocities at the longer ranges since I have seen the the heavier jacketed bullets lack expansion, and have a lower BC. Since the SST's were about half the price and came in boxes of 100 vs 50, I settled on the SST's. I have also used 150 gr SST's in my 270WSM loaded to 3100 FPS. They have a BC of .525, and have performed very well on deer sized game with the bullets holding together even at short range. [/QUOTE]
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