155 Scenar performance on game?

[Seeknelk]

Another sweet option is the hammer bullets.

 

[Wild_Musk]

Bumping this thread, I tried the 155g scenar this year based on this info and other recs for my daughter's first elk. Rifle is a rebarreled 22" Rem 600 Mohawk (nothing fancy, just a shillen from Brownells, standard 308 reamer from PTG). Max load of Varget gave us 2900fps in the summer, which is within a grain of our rifle's pressure limit. I got 100 pieces of Lapua brass, fired all of it, but then used 50 for practice and saved the other 1x fired 50 for hunting. I've only got 4 cycles on the practice brass, not sure how many more reloads it will last. I also tried 168g ELDMs, 168g TMKs, and 165g sierra gameking HPBTs. COAL is limited in this action, no room for longer mag box, so only the gamekings and Scenars allowed for function while seating anywhere close to lands/maximizing powder capacity. SGK velocity ended up about 2800fps, which i also thought was awesome. Both were accurate but Scenars obv have better BC. AB calculator shows 2150fps at 400yd, 2000fps at 500, which is a significant improvement over the SGKs. I want to try shooting over my chrono at 300 but I haven't done it, so grain of salt. She shot her elk 2x at only 85/100yd. One was passthrough, but we recovered a chunk of lead under hide very similar to the earlier pic in this thread. Lost most of the back part of the far shoulder. Her buck was about 85yd also, passthrough as well. He's hanging in a cooler for another week, but I don't think we will get much out that offside shoulder. Neither left any kind of bloodtrail, which I don't quite get yet, but also they only went about 20yds.
All very anecdotal but we're gonna keep using them.

 

[hunting1]

Bang, Flop dead! They are awesome as are the 139 gr .264 ones. I just got back from TX and both the .308 and the .260 dropped turkeys, axis, WT, and pigs with authority.

 

[bonepoint]

My son shot a doe yesterday with a 155 scenar from a 308 WIN. It was about a 100 yard shot and the deer went down like it was struck by lightning. Went in tight behind the shoulder, exited through the opposite should/neck area with an exit a little bigger than a golf ball.

The bullet didn't hit a rib on entry and was not fragmenting or expanding much while it went through the lung, just a bullet sized hole in the lung. The far shoulder bone opened it up though.

They are definitely hard bullets that penetrate well. No complaints with how fast it killed.

 

[E.Shell]

I shot a whitetail buck at 392 yards with a 155 Scenar from my .30-06 AI. Dressed weight 140#. He was bedded down in a greenbriar patch across the gully. Spotted him glassing the opposite hillside, lasered him and dialed. Shot him though the shoulders, broke both. Quarter-size exit. Never got up, just rolled over and stretched out.

 

[Tanner]

I think I’ve seen more game killed with a 155 Scenar out of a 300 WSM at 3150 than just about any other bullet and they were never anything but absolutely devastating. From antelope to Grizzlies they are an excellent big game bullet and maybe one of my favorites, especially for smaller .30 cals.

 

[CJF]

From 2004 to 2010ish I probably killed around 30 or so whitetail out of a 300wsm. I stopped shooting them because the meat damage was too much for my liking. Looking back I should have just shot the 308 full time but I was definitely chasing fps. Was pushing them 3300 mv and even then never had a bullet fail to penetrate. Also during the same timeframe I saw about the same number of deer killed with the 139 6.5mm scenar. Never a problem. Always dead animals.