Well you edited your post, but I find it interesting that you've been to Sierra and educated them, yet they still continue to recommend target bullets for targets, and hunting bullets for game.
It’s almost like there’s a reason they do that. Wonder why Federal loads TMK’s in “Law Enforcement” ammunition that passes the FBI terminal ballistics parameters. Or Hornday doing the same with ELD-M’s and also “not recommending” them Kim for hunting.
You act like you guys are the first group to shoot stuff with match bullets, people have been doing it for a long time. Do they often work? Yes. Do they always work? No.
TMK’s and ELD-M’s are tipped, lead core, jacketed bullets. They are no different mechanically than any other tipped lead core “hunting” bullet. So saying they “might not work” (whatever “work” means to you) is the same as saying any tipped, Lear’s core bullet won’t work.
I've killed a shit load of deer with match bullets and hunting bullets, I do know what I'm talking about. I don't doubt that TMK's will work since they're basically an OG SGK with a tip.
If they are an “OG SGK with a tip” why are you arguing what you are?
That’s not true by the way, the jacket is different.
Years after the TMK's were introduced Sierra still felt the need to make the TGK...
Because hunters believe high weight retention and a perfect mushroom is what kills.
I also don't doubt that you have shot a lot of animals and seen a lot shot, but acting like you know more than Sierra and that the TMK is the end all be all hunting bullet is ridiculous.
Where did I say that I knew more than Sierra? However, I can all but guarantee I’ve seen more living things killed by TMK’s than anyone, and probably almost as many in proper ballistics testing as anyone. “Sierra” is fully aware of how TMK’s perform in tissue.
No one but you had said they are the “be all end all hunting bullet”. The only one using hyperbole is you.
What I desire in a bullet is sufficient penetration with an extremely wide wound channel, and a relatively high BC, that is not finicky. To do that requires a heavy for caliber, thin jacketed, lead core bullet.
Dang… almost like describing an ELD-M or TMK.
My point is that there are TGK's available that are designed for hunting and everyone here has a hard on for TMK's because hunters finally figured out that match bullets will kill things.
Tipped Game Kings suck as killing bullets. I shouldn’t say they “suck”. They are much more similar to a standard mono in their wounding performance than a relatively thin jacket, tipped, lead core non-bonded bullet. A bullets performance in tissue isn’t determined by the label a manufacturer gives it. If Sierra would have named the TMK the “Tipped hunting bullet” they would be as popular or more so as ELD-X’s.
Oh that’s interesting- the ELD-X. That’s a hunting bullet- the manufacturer says so. You ever compared what an ELD-X design is to an ELD-M?