My experience with SSTs being too soft is 150s from a 308. A couple buddies asked me to load SSTs in a 270 and a 30-06 for them. I did and then they asked if I could swap to a different bullet after one season (we can shoot 12 deer here in GA). I am a big fan of the Interlock but not the SST. Lately though I have been gravitating to Sierra bullets. I am trying the Tipped Game Kings this year in my 6.5CM and 7mmRM. I just hope they are not too soft.
Me and my hunting buddy both shoot TGK 140gr in 270win they are kinda soft
In my opinion, yes. I won't use them from my 338Fed with a MV of 2600. There are just too many good bullets that will work 100% of the time. The mono metals on the higher end but out of a 308, I would do a 150 or 165 Hornady Interlock, Sierra GK or Pro Hunter or even Remington Core Locks before SSTs.
It depends on what kind of wounds you want. What kind of wounds do you want?
It's because people don't pay attention to/understand what the bullet is actually doing. Also, while I don't have any hard numbers on this I would say more than 50% of all hunters, firearm and bow, will condemn a bullet/broadhead after one instance where things don't go as planned.What I think is really interesting is that different people have such different impressions of the same family of bullets. Example, Ive used sst’s in 7mm and .308 diameter. I found those bullets to be “soft”, as in, I believe they are designed to fragment to a degree similar to the much-vaunted tmk, eldm, etc, the main difference being that its a “traditionally-shaped” bullet with a lower BC. I stopped using them because they were TOO effective, ie wounds too big for my taste. I found them even a bit softer than ballistic tips. Any time it wasnt possible to stay off a shoulder I lost a lot of meat, and since Im mainly shooting average deer and only 1 or a couple a season, the loss was significant. But I cant recall a single one that didnt drop in its tracks. They are the reason I started using monos, which are on the other end of the bullet spectrum and generally create a narrower wound when all other things are equal. Interesting to me that some people said sst’s were too tough. It makes me really wish people would provide a specific description of what those bullets did on game vs what they were expecting, maybe even with pictures, so we could understand better and see things on average from a larger set of examples. Could even specify stuff like impact velocity, etc so you could really be pretty objective about it. Boy, that could make for an informational thread topic.
