Any reason why you went with the TMK over the TGK?
The Tipped Game King isn't known for having the same type of wound channel as the TMK. It is slower to open and makes a smaller permanent wound channel.
It shocks me that people still think match bullets are somehow inferior to "hunting" bullets. Like has been said many times, Berger hunting bullets actually have a thinner jacket than their target bullets.
Yep. Here's a .284 169gr VLDH at approximately 2850 impact velocity (100 yds) on an average sized TX Panhandle whitetail (200lbs live weight). You berger fans can have 'em all. Also experimented and shot about 20 hogs with them, zero exits, many were very hard to find due to very little blood trail.
Make sense. I have the TGK and with a small sample size of 2 antelope and 1 deer they have done well but the rifle splits between my kids big game gun and my long range coyote gun for certain stands. I hit a coyote a little back last year at 400. It hit the dirt but got back up and ran and there was no blood and we never recovered it. I chalked it up to yes a bad hit but impact velocity was too low for that hit and the bullet wasnt violent enough. So i am actually looking for a 6.5 varmint bullet in the 120-130 range. I shot another coyote with that combo at 125 yards frontal and it was messy. I actually bought some 120 eld-m to try. Interesting that the 130 SMK are $50 and the 130SGK are $43 on Midway.
Is there a specific thread on this? I would like to check it out, not opposed to TMK use, would like to research it
This one has a thing or two about the TMKs in it:
rokslide.com
