Hunting & Fishing 308 win hornady 178 bthp or sierra matchking 175??

[lrgrendel]

Short range (max 50 yds) for smaller white tail.
I reload so I can run them fast or slow.
I will do my part so does it matter which bullet I use? And yes I know they are match bullets.

Thanks

 

[ZombieSlayer]

Hit en in the head and you'll be able to fit a grapefruit in the cavity.

 

[lrgrendel]

I am actually going to be mounting the head but.....
I noticed your sarcasm, great answer. Thanks

 

[hornet shooter]

178gr Amax. Why do you want to use a match bullet for short range hunting? If 50yds was my max I would buy a box of 150gr power points from Walmart.

 

[roggom]

I agree, if you want to use one bullet and load for everything match/hunting then the Amax would be the best bet.

 

[thrusty]

If you're seriously going to be only shooting at max 50 yards....why does it matter and why would you use a match bullet?

I get it if you're trying to use the same bullet in the gun for matches and to hunt with...but at 50 yards you can run a 165gr Hornady SST and still hold dead on and that deer will drop even though your gun is sighted in for your 175SMK or 178BTHP bullets at 100 yrds. Hell you can even keep the powder charges the same and it should be close to the same trajectory....

 

[Graham]

Shot placement is everything, even at 50 yards.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Either bullet will work fine, dont worry about the whole match bullet question, they work fine. I have killed many many big game animals with nothing but SMK's and Amax's. Deer, antelope, or elk, they wont know the difference when you blow their oil pump.

 

[lrgrendel]

Not sure where the AMAX came from. I never mentioned it.......

All I was worried about was bullet expansion or maybe lack of expansion.
You know where the bullet goes in one side and out the other without hitting any major organs or bone.......

 

[coldboremiracle]

OP, here is a thread we started a while back, its has LOTS of info, pics, and descriptions about how the SMK works on game, at varying ranges.

http://www.snipershide.com/shooting/snipers-hide-hunting-fishing/106997-post-your-smk-kills.html

 

[coldboremiracle]

And a taste of the gore therein:


175 smk at 380yds

Here's an Antelope:

190SMK @850yds

More elk:

175 smk at 50 yds

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[lrgrendel]

Now that is what I was looking for!
Thanks for the photos and the link.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Now that is what I was looking for!
Thanks for the photos and the link.

You bet, all clean kills, with love

 

[Rhyno]

Shot two deer last year with match bullets, one 178 amax one 178 bthp, two dead deer.

The bthp actually dropped the doe, the buck got the amax and ran but he was chasing the doe when I shot him so he was probably full of adrenaline.

 

[Cigarcop]

"Shot placement is everything, even at 50 yards."


I agree with Graham!

 

[kraigWY]

Seems to me match bullets would be pricy and provide no advantage at 50 yards. Just about any 30 cal bullet would work at that range, but on little white tails, (I'm assuming their about the size of antelope).

Hornady, Sierra, and others make some pretty good bullets made for just such hunting. Heck at 50 yards the 100-110 bullets for the carbine would work great, no recoil, low cost, and accurate (to 200 yards in my M1 Carbine).

 

[coldboremiracle]

Seems to me match bullets would be pricy and provide no advantage at 50 yards. Just about any 30 cal bullet would work at that range, but on little white tails, (I'm assuming their about the size of antelope).

Hornady, Sierra, and others make some pretty good bullets made for just such hunting. Heck at 50 yards the 100-110 bullets for the carbine would work great, no recoil, low cost, and accurate (to 200 yards in my M1 Carbine).

I agree Kraig, at 50 yds anything put through the boiler room would probably work. My point is that for those of us who shoot the same gun hunting that we shoot in comps and such, why change our setup with a different bullet/load for one or two shots we fire during a hunt? A couple SMK's are cheap compared to load development for an equivalent hunting bullet/load, not to mention bringing the familiarity and confidence of our time tested and trued load into the hunting field. 43.5gr RL-15 +175smk= "old meat in the pot"