A while back you posted some Expansion / Penetraion test results for the .30 Caliber 150gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip vs the 150gr. Hornady SST. I have searched and searched and can not locate that post.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble could you repost the information.

Thanks

SD Handgunner

[ 11-19-2003, 18:32: Message edited by: SD Handgunner ]

I'm not Don But here you go

http://www.nookhill.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=35;t=001255

SD & Rich,

I hadn't checked this forum for a couple of days so I'm a little behind. Thanks Rich.

Don Shearer

No problem Don just happened to know where to find it. Hope you don't mind me answering for you. Take care.

Thanks Rich & Don.

SD Handgunner

Rich, In the old thread you referenced, you mentioned you were going to try the SST on some game. Did you get a chance to do so, and if so, what were the results? Thanks for pulling up the old thread as I had forgotten about it, but found it interesting. I'm hoping to harvest a wt deer this season w/ 308 Striker using 150 gr SST.

Good timing too, seeing the 150 SST's are what I am loading for the PA adventure.

Thanks again,

The reason I inquired about the 150gr. .30 Caliber bullets is I am going to be switching bullets next year. I am currently shooting 125gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips in my Super 14 .30-30 AI at 2683 FPS. I harvested a nice size eatin buck Sunday evening. The shot went a little high and went through the back bone. There was an exit hole through the meat of the off side ham just in front of the hip joint. Upon cutting up the deer imagine my surprise when I found the prefectly mushroomed bullet jacket (yes that's right just the bullet jacket and no core) in the back bone. The exit wound must have been made by the lead core exiting the deer.

Granted hitting the back bone is tough on bullets, but next year I am going to try something different, probably the 150gr. Hornady SST.

Larry

Sorry GaryT, Larry & Mike I somehow missed your responses to this thread. My luck hasn't given me a chance to use the SST's on deer, but Don Shearer did get a chance to use it. Here is the link to his Post on the SST's http://specialtypistols.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=9066056864&f=3646077864&m=9466075174. Sorry Don, here I go again taking your thunder!

[ 12-03-2003, 00:48: Message edited by: Rich Jake ]

Sorry That link won't work so I Cut, Copied & Pasted here.

Don Shearer
New Member
posted Sat November 01 2003 02:07 PM
Recall that I had shot a coyote with a Hornady 150 SST bullet and got big damage. I had thought it might have been a bullet blow up. Well, I did have a chance to test that bullet further.

I went back up to Wyoming for the last week of the deer season and did get a mule deer. I was hunting on a ranch in central Wyoming on a ranch where the rancher is a friend. He and I hunted together one day in an area where there is a small basin covered with sage brush and a few trees. I got on a small ridge that is about 20 feet higher than the basin and borders the basin. There is also a wash that cuts from the ridge into the basin and I was near it. Greg zigzagged through the basin and spooked two good sized mule deer which came bouncing toward the wash and me. I could see that one deer was noticibly bigger than the other. They were bouncing so much I couldn't get a shot until they came up the wash. but when the first one came out of the wash at about 120 yds, I nailed him and he went down, but got back up as I was reloading. I was able to anchor him at about 200 yds with a shot to the neck. I then looked for the other one, and Crap, I had shot the little one, but the other one was too far off to get any more shooting. That little one turned out th have a rack 20"x22" and field dressed a strong 180 lbs. I was able to drive my truck to within 30 yds of him so getting the rest of the job done was easy.

I was fortunate enough to recover one of the bullets. It did just what It should do. It mushroomed nicely and weighed 131.1 grains which is 89% weight retention. So my earlier speculation about excessive blow up were unfounded.

The second half of the story is that Greg decided to go back to the same place Friday, the last day of the season after I had come home. By then weather had gotten nasty and there was 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground. He was able to meove quietly, and went back to the same place where he had spooked those two before. As he got near, he saw the top of a deer's horns, and about the same time the deer heard him and stood up. Greg shot him in the neck and dropped him back into his bed. It had to be the same one that had gotten away when I shot the first one.

Man, what a season!

Don Shearer