Anybody had good luck with Hornady SST in .30 caliber?
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bjohnson
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They expand violently if any bone is hit. Just my experience with the 130gr SST from a .270 Win. I prefer the Norma Tipstrike 140gr to the SST. Just as accurate and its not as explosive.
A bit of apples to oranges but here goes.
180gr sst in my 308 on hogs and deer. Good wound channel but doesn't always exit. I haven't weighed the recovered bullets but I would say 70% weight retention on average BUT about half of the bullets fragmented more than I am excited about. Overall its very effective and a bit more explosive than the Hornady interlock. If it was life or death, or I had to eat right up to the bullet hole, I would go with a tougher construction.
the 162 BTSP interlock out of my 7mag runs around 200 FPS faster. It almost always exits. On the few occasions where I recover a bullet, it usually retains 90% + with a few outliers when it hits heavy bone. Rarely I will have some kind of separation, usually with a few small bullet chips, 65% weight retention in the lead core, and 60% of the copper jacket in one piece, the rest scattered in pieces around the heavy bone it hit.
180gr sst in my 308 on hogs and deer. Good wound channel but doesn't always exit. I haven't weighed the recovered bullets but I would say 70% weight retention on average BUT about half of the bullets fragmented more than I am excited about. Overall its very effective and a bit more explosive than the Hornady interlock. If it was life or death, or I had to eat right up to the bullet hole, I would go with a tougher construction.
the 162 BTSP interlock out of my 7mag runs around 200 FPS faster. It almost always exits. On the few occasions where I recover a bullet, it usually retains 90% + with a few outliers when it hits heavy bone. Rarely I will have some kind of separation, usually with a few small bullet chips, 65% weight retention in the lead core, and 60% of the copper jacket in one piece, the rest scattered in pieces around the heavy bone it hit.
double browtine
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I concur with the bullet fragments on both the 165gr out of my 300 win mag and the 150 gr out of my 308. Accuracy with the loads are great. Shot a buck with my 300 win mag at 75 yards. Shot was just above the heart. 3 major exit holes. Found fragments in the backstraps. It went through a rib and blew up. It was the Hornady Factory loads with SST bullets
I like to use them out west. 165 gr SST in 308 caliber.
