Thread: 30cal hunting projectiles

My experience with the 150sst is shot around 30 reds with it, front on shots into the point of shoulder or brisket would drop them on the spot 200plus yards,never had one make it past the diaphragm, broadside + 200 drop on spot also but rarely find anything other than fragments I bloody loved them until I took them bush,two stags in as many weeks took multiple shots to the shoulder and completely failed to enter the engine room,yep they dropped but got straight back up and took another to the shoulder as I ran in and one to the neck to actually put it down.
Autopsy showed NO significant entry hole into the chest cavity NO holes in any vital organs but the lungs were "peppered" with very small fragments of copper on the outside of lungs with other than bruising no damage at all.
Carbon copy results with 168 amax,178 I am now using shows promise as an all practicl ranges projectile, at least I have found one that didn't exit but to early to say I haven't shot enough with it a varying ranges.

You cannot apply experience with a projectile in a smaller bore size to 30 cal, for the weights commonly used here they do not have the sectional density of 7 6.5 6mm and simply do not behave the same, typically they are much more frangible even at 308velocitys