Shawn Carlock
Sponsor
I cannot speak for the 250 SMK on game. The 250 SMK was the first bullet I tried in my first 338 Edge. Shortly after switching the 300 SMK. This fall I shot or filmed being shot 1 blackbear, 4 whitetail bucks, from 618 to 1016 yards. My muzzle velocity was 2818 fps with the 300 SMK. The bullet performance was quite good. All shots were 1 shot drops falling inside of 40 yards. No full bullets were recovered all were pass throughs even at a fair quartering angle. The most common scenerio was for core jacket sepperation the jacket turning into fragments from the size of half of the jacket to very small, the core then did one of 2 things tumbled penetrating through or breaking into 2 pieces and penetrating clear through. While performance is not consistantly the same everytime getting jacket frag and core penetration works very well terminally. There are several 338 bullets coming into the market place in the next year mostly in the 250 gr range that have alot of promise, but for right now I have been perfectly happy with the 300SMK's performance over the last 3 years or so. In all we are only talking about 10-11 big game animals so it is not exactly a huge test group but it has not failed me or anyone I have witnessed that had even reasonable shot placement.
