Hi
I have loded 40 rounds of this bullets for my 3030 rifle@ 2400 fps and after shooting 10 rounds in dry paper(tougher the wet) many other bullets fail in same medium . I found them excellent no core separatin att all uniform mashrooming and working like welded core!! are them bounded core?
Danny

Dry paper may be tougher than wet, but it's not tougher on bullets. It's hydraulic action that opens up bullets in game.

If you shoot these bullets into REALY soaked/saturated paper they ill expand much much more.

http://www.cylindersmith.com/38-40Ruger-Magnum.html these are not rifle rounds, but will show a SMALL example of what I mean.The softer (wetter) first impact medium, the greater the expansion.

Long story short, dry paper doesn't mean too much.

Danny-The Sierra SSPs are not bonded core bullets but do perform extremely well. Last season, I took a gorgeous 8-point whitetail buck with a spread of 18 5/8ths using a 7mm Bullberry carbine and the Sierra 130 grain SSP at 2505 fps. The range was 108 yards, and the deer was facing with a slight quartering angle. His front end was higher than his rear (there was a small gulley there). The bullet entered the right front part of the chest cavity, wreaked havoc with the lungs and part of the liver, took out a small section of backbone and wound up in the left ham. I had to weigh it twice because I did not believe the initial reading of 114 grains. After impacting bone, that is simply superb peformance. I posted a photo of it before. If you e-mail me, I will send you a copy of the photo as well. It will be tomorrow or late today, however, as the CD is at my studio. By the way, the 80 grain SSPs are wonderful in the 6mm-.223 (6x45), 6mm TCU, 6BR, etc. I have used this bullet since it first became available and have made it my all-purpose, small-capacity 6mm bullet -- and it has never let me down.

Do not get too excited about the Sierra .308 135 grain Single Shot Pistol bullet unless you have a lot of them on hand. Sierra has discontinued the .308 diameter Single Shot Pistol bullet. They are still making the 6mm and 7mm SSP's to the best of my knowledge though. All of the major suppliers are out of stock, if anyone knows where I could buy a couple more boxes I would appreciate the lead. Here is a copy of the email I got back from a Sierra Tech after I was unable to find any bullets to replenish my personal stockpile. Maybe it would do a little good if more wrote Sierra asking for them to produce a few now and then.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carroll Pilant" <carroll@sierrabullets.com>
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: re: .308 135 gr. SPT Single Shot Pistol??

Mike, unfortunately we did discontinue it. There just weren't enough people using it to keep making it. It seems like people just now realized we had it after all these years. I wouls fall back on the 125 and see how it shoots for you. I hope we get enough demand for it that we have to start making it again. Time will tell. Sorry we dropped it.

Carroll