Sierra Heavy TMK 6MM Testing

[HighUintas]

So if I'm reading correctly, takeaway on damage is if you're eating it, through ribs should be ok and it won't look like it was hit with a cannonball. If you're worried about a hasty follow up shot hitting shoulder/femur.... Maybe these aren't for you.

 

[dreamingWest]

I'll be curious where the 140 gr Tipped Fusion ranks regarding efficient kill/meat damage compared to the other leading options for 6.5 (130 tmk, 140 eld-m, 143 eld-x, 147 eld-m, 153 tmk).

I bought some factory loaded for a 20" PRC to try.

 

[N2TRKYS]

I choose 223 for food, and most other things- 62gr Federal Fusion/Speer Gold Dot works well there.

What’s your go to shot placement with these bullets?

 

[Formidilosus]

So if I'm reading correctly, takeaway on damage is if you're eating it, through ribs should be ok and it won't look like it was hit with a cannonball. If you're worried about a hasty follow up shot hitting shoulder/femur.... Maybe these aren't for you.

Correct. Except that for follow up’s I do want the cannonball wounds- that’s exactly what I want. If I have to stop a wounded animal, I want massive wound channels.

 

[Formidilosus]

I'll be curious where the 140 gr Tipped Fusion ranks regarding efficient kill/meat damage compared to the other leading options for 6.5 (130 tmk, 140 eld-m, 143 eld-x, 147 eld-m, 153 tmk).

I bought some factory loaded for a 20" PRC to try.

They are a good bullet. Tipped Fusions are what most people should probably be using/where most people would be comfortable.

 

[Formidilosus]

What’s your go to shot placement with these bullets?

In the front half.

 

[mlevimadden]

@Formidilosus, do you have any wound photos from the culling with a broadside rib or lung impact, not major bone structure?

 

[Dobermann]

In the front half.

Aim small, miss small!

 

[SloppyJ]

Yea I'm going to try them too. Everything I shoot is food but admit in the summer I shoot shoulders so they drop. When I loose a shoulder I just don't worry about it. Maybe the wrong attitude but most people around here leave them laying or just drag out of the field when culling so I'm getting a lot of food from them compared to most. Even if shoulders are lost. Like you said I'll try to keep them in the lungs and form my opinion from there. If it's too much I'll go back to something else.

I do the exact same if I have to. If I lose a shoulder, that's part of it.

 

[Kaleb]

I do the exact same if I have to. If I lose a shoulder, that's part of it.

Yea I'm here for the information on new products and how they seem to be performing. I'm not looking for any guidance on making food. I'd sure take it and be interested but I don't think this forum is about that. I'm guessing and could be totally wrong but I don't see most grinding mixing and packaging a hundred pounds of burger at a time. If so I would expect we'd see lots of pictures post and opinions about that too. If I had to bet most are being processed by someone else. To each their own and lots of good information is here though.

 

[justin davis]

Yea I'm here for the information on new products and how they seem to be performing. I'm not looking for any guidance on making food. I'd sure take it and be interested but I don't think this forum is about that. I'm guessing and could be totally wrong but I don't see most grinding mixing and packaging a hundred pounds of burger at a time. If so I would expect we'd see lots of pictures post and opinions about that too. If I had to bet most are being processed by someone else. To each their own and lots of good information is here though.

I do my own processing. And grind hundreds of pounds of burger a year. But with that said if a shoulder gets destroyed so be it. I usually aim for behind the shoulder. But if I loose a shoulder not a big deal. Normally have plenty of meat