Sierra Game King
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You know it is quite simple when it comes to bullet effectiveness in games, either they kill quickly that usually mean cup and core lots of fragmentation, more meat lost/waste especially if you hit bones or if they are driven faster than the 2800fps magic number. Or they don’t kill as quickly usually bonded or mono, less meat waste, usually less mess and more often then not game doesn’t go gown as quickly but still go down.
I’ve used all types, a good compromise is imo a bonded bullet heavy for caliber, I think some cup and core when going heavy for calibers are holding up quite well too. One thing for sure is take two or more of the same bullets shoot them in the same animal and they might not even react the same way.
I really like the nosler partition but they are so expensive and sometimes hard to find. I also like the Accubond, the hot-cor and I hope to be using the Speer impact next fall and see how it performs!
I had pretty decent luck with the tsx TTSX and gmx in the past. I have some ECX loaded up in my 9.3x62 and some tsx loaded up for my 458 win mag.
Some accubond LR in one of my 30-06, some impact in an other 06 and accubond in an 8x57….
So you can see I’m not loyal to one bullet hahaha
I’ve used all types, a good compromise is imo a bonded bullet heavy for caliber, I think some cup and core when going heavy for calibers are holding up quite well too. One thing for sure is take two or more of the same bullets shoot them in the same animal and they might not even react the same way.
I really like the nosler partition but they are so expensive and sometimes hard to find. I also like the Accubond, the hot-cor and I hope to be using the Speer impact next fall and see how it performs!
I had pretty decent luck with the tsx TTSX and gmx in the past. I have some ECX loaded up in my 9.3x62 and some tsx loaded up for my 458 win mag.
Some accubond LR in one of my 30-06, some impact in an other 06 and accubond in an 8x57….
So you can see I’m not loyal to one bullet hahaha
I used to love the HPBT 160 grain Game Kings in my 7x57
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Ive shot quite a few of those out of my 280ai. Only big game killed was a medium sized black bear. They seem to be a hard bullet that would act closer to an accubond than your typical cup and core. There are some good pics online of how thick the jacket is compared to other cup and cores and the lead they use is also supposed to be quite hard. Im hoping to use the 145 tgk from a 6.5 prc this spring on another bear.
As others have said keep the gameking speeds under 3000 fps. They are always accurate, normal gamekings or the newer tipped gamekings, put them in the boiler room and there won't be an issue. I am shooting 180gr tipped gamekings in my 300wsm and have had good results, I now load 165gr tipped gamekings in my 308 win at 2810 fps and I expect they will perform well.
Shot a couple bears with 165 Gamechangers in a 30-06. I’ve got them up to 3180 fps in a 26” Benchmark with about all the Superformance I can get in the case
They died in the approved fashion, fell on their chins right beside each other. Range was almost exactly 300 yards. It’s almost
like its not even a 30-06 anymore, which is why I call that one my 30-23.
They died in the approved fashion, fell on their chins right beside each other. Range was almost exactly 300 yards. It’s almostlike its not even a 30-06 anymore, which is why I call that one my 30-23.
