Sierra matchking performance on game

[Hunt_4life]

I know of quite a few on here using match bullets for hunting including TMK's. I have 500 each in 7mm and 30 cal SMK's for long range practice. I'm also interested in results on game.
Appears your deer is decidely dead or nicely cooperating for a photo. Nice buck!
Keeping an open mind....

Definitely I would rather shoot a smk that I know I can confidently kill a deer out to 800 yd rather than an inaccurate "hunting" bullet.

 

[Hunt_4life]

Exactly to my point. A single case study is clearly the definitive word on the performance of a bullet not designed to harvest animals. People accept what they want to believe.

I don't feel that this is definitive but in this case the bullet performed as good as I could hope. I will continue testing this bullet at longer ranges on deer. I know many people that will say eldx bullets don't work good just like people say with the smk. I just wanted to show people my experience and give them some confidence if this is the only bullet they have access to like in my case.

 

[Recon$$]

I've seen alot of deer taken with 175 smk in .308's. Boiler room, go for it.

 

[Hunt_4life]

This is the exit wound. Looks about as good as any hunting bullet exit wound. It's about 3" in diameter.

 

[DJ Fergus]

Anyone tried the 107 smk pointed 6mm on game?

 

[Hunt_4life]

Anyone tried the 107 smk pointed 6mm on game?

I have some but I haven't shot anything but targets with them. I know gunfather precision on YouTube did some long range ballistic gel testing with them. They seemed to perform well.

 

[DoneNOut]

Given what I've observed on media other than game...

Given what I've observed on game, match bullets kill very good. The match vs hunting bullet marketing once again propagandizes.

 

[Reelamin]

@Hung_4life

Thank your picture speaks volumes to me!! Helps me understand a lot!!

 

[Hunt_4life]

@Hung_4life

Thank your picture speaks volumes to me!! Helps me understand a lot!!

Glad I could help. I definitely feel that shot placement is vastly more important than bullet choice.

 

[Hunt_4life]

Given what I've observed on game, match bullets kill very good. The match vs hunting bullet marketing once again propagandizes.

So true nothing other than game will show a bullets true capabilities. You cannot dispute a clean kill with obviously good terminal performance.

 

[Profex]

Only reason I don't use match bullets in hunting what I'm going to eat is the bullets weight retention. Match bullets break up into small pieces, pieces full of lead.

I prefer to use solid copper for hunting for meat preservation and not having the lead.

To each there own, congrats on your deer

 

[Profex]

Mt

 

[hawg chaser]

We have had great success on whitetail and black bear with 200 grain SMK out of a 30-378 weatherby, and 300 grain SMK out of a 338-378. They're all we've used for the past 30 plus years.

 

[mercerbear]

@Petey308

We have a member on the board who has done extensive bullet testing on game and speaks highly of the Sierra Tipped Match King. Specifically heavy for caliber, ie the 195 grain in .308.

I suspect this bullet in 7MM gave you a similar terminal performance. Looks about perfect to me and it sounds like the performance of the bullet may have compensated for a slightly rear shot.