Thread: Sierra & Hornady bullet sections

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

@Flyblown Once I got them to shoot in my 6.5x55 they certainly killed deer well and mostly exited.

Yeah those LRAB are pretty tough. My son shot a red hind at about 120m right through both shoulders with a 129gr out of his 260, it then cleaned up a healthy manuka bush passing right through a 2" branch. Didn't find it after poking around in the dirt bank

I have a real fascination with the 12lrab. Very keen to try it out in my 260. Reckon I could get about 2800 which would be plenty given the low speed they expand but funnily enough my 2 loads are for eldms and gamekings which are both really hard to leave behind as they perform extremely well on game

Originally Posted by Tahr

Have a look at this about the match projectiles in .223

(blood and guts warning)

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...-deer-antelope

SSSSSShit thats impressive

Great Thread @Flyblown, interesting as.

Originally Posted by Wingman

123gr 6.5mm Hornady SST

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Noslers range
Left-to-right Partition, Ballistic Tip, AccuBond, E-Tip

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Looks like the 95 gr SST to me , currently using them in my 243.

Very interesting info here well done.

Thanx. Good info.

Great info in this thread

I've used the 160gr tmk in my 7mmcreed on goats and fallow out to 725meters, they work mint.
Big fan of the 162gr Eld-M &A-max used out to 602 meters in my 7mm08 bushpig

As an addition to this thread I've found the .270win 130gr Sierra Gamekings driven at about 2900-3000 as is about typical for factory loadings can be quite explosive in both deer and goats but are very good killers as a result. Straight lung shots tend to sit a goat down immediately even without hitting any real bone. If bone is hit, they'll penetrate and generally exit but it's a horror show once they've hit something hard.

Hornady interlock on the other hand tends to hold together a bit more but weirdly the last deer we shot with one of those was at about 200m on a yearling with a classic through both shoulders shot and it didn't exit - expect it stopped somewhere in the off side bone or skin.

There’s a YT channel I follow that is doing some cool stuff - Frontline Rejects:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCpFyK7N5qDjiNf5I5fhKBnA

Pretty sure I’ve posted this before but no harm giving them another punt.

Whilst we can argue forever on the choice of bullet catching medium (water), the methodology is the same every time which is what you need for objective comparison.

Check out the performance of some of the bonded lead core copper jacked bullets. The Norma bullets in particular.

Meateater also did a pretty cool video recently. The only caution to this is that if you’ve been watching them since forever like me, you’ll remember which bullet they were endorsing which unsurprisingly is their pick from the test results. Nonetheless, the quality of the test is probably as good as it gets visually.

Here is a 180gr Hornady interlock 3070 i sectioned and then melted the lead.