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Sierra gamekings and quality?
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Fla_dogman
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I've had a great experience with them. I load them for 243 and 30-06. Both have proven very accurate and expansion on deer has been good.
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NoSecondBest
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Very accurate in several guns I've owned and very effective on a dozen or so deer I've shot with them. I find no fault what so ever with them. Like any bullet, if it isn't placed in the vitals the shooter easily finds fault with the bullet.....can't be me, right?
Ask any 10 shooter whats the best bullet and you are likely to get at least 6 answers, sometimes 10.
The problem is we get stuck in our rut that our experience is all that counts.
Sierra makes good bullets. If they fail its possible they were mis applied (wrong velocity as they tend to be used for reloads)
Shoot enough game with any given bullet then you can begin to see how it does.
Nothing wrong with Sierra nor their quality. How they work for any given load and hunter, may be a different story.
The problem is we get stuck in our rut that our experience is all that counts.
Sierra makes good bullets. If they fail its possible they were mis applied (wrong velocity as they tend to be used for reloads)
Shoot enough game with any given bullet then you can begin to see how it does.
Nothing wrong with Sierra nor their quality. How they work for any given load and hunter, may be a different story.
Sure Shot Mc Gee
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I don't use em but I know others who do. No complaints have I heard so far. In fact complementing Sierra when ever the conversation turns to bullet use on whitetail.
They are going to be the equal or superior to any other cup and core bullet out there that isn't made with special design such as tapered jackets, bonding, other mechanical means of holding the core in place.
Take any base product bullet from any of the big american companies and sierra will be as good or better. I'm not going to make any statements about overseas or bargain things other than money matters to those people as well. The lead will be scrap, the copper may be dodgy, the QC and equipment may be poor. You may have every possible failure. The next round may be good. Cup and core from the big american makers will still be as good as can be made.
I once bought a large box of nosler "seconds" in 180 grain .308, and it took me almost a dozen of them to find the flaws. They were wrinkles at the tip. It's very doubful that accuracy would be ruined, and with an exposed lead peplat, it's doubtful that expansion would have been compromised. The cores couldn't have failed, it's a partition. You can expect to lose your front core sometimes whatever partition you use if you have the velocity too high at point of impact.
I wondered when I started looking at them, in the days before automation, how did they even manage to see those little wrinkles?
Take any base product bullet from any of the big american companies and sierra will be as good or better. I'm not going to make any statements about overseas or bargain things other than money matters to those people as well. The lead will be scrap, the copper may be dodgy, the QC and equipment may be poor. You may have every possible failure. The next round may be good. Cup and core from the big american makers will still be as good as can be made.
I once bought a large box of nosler "seconds" in 180 grain .308, and it took me almost a dozen of them to find the flaws. They were wrinkles at the tip. It's very doubful that accuracy would be ruined, and with an exposed lead peplat, it's doubtful that expansion would have been compromised. The cores couldn't have failed, it's a partition. You can expect to lose your front core sometimes whatever partition you use if you have the velocity too high at point of impact.
I wondered when I started looking at them, in the days before automation, how did they even manage to see those little wrinkles?
You don't mention caliber, type, game used on, etc. I have used the 130gr Prohunter in 270Win and the 180gr SGK in 300WM on deer and performance has been excellent. Sierra designs there bullets accordingly to weight. Lighter bullets in a caliber have a different jackets than heavier bullets of the same caliber.
Too soft for what ? The devil is in the details....they do matter .
Agreed.
Here's a bunch of blanket statements I'm pretty comfortable making:
Sierra pretty well known for accuracy
Sierra Gameking's are recognized as being among the "softest" standard (cup and core) hunting soft point. For hunting deer on down I don't think it matters much, and sometimes it's desirable
Heavy for cartridge offering will hold together better
Regarding cup and core bullets, I prefer Hornady Interlocks and Remington Core-Lokts to Sierra GK's, especially for large deer or bigger
Put in the right place, they will work great and of course they have killed a truckload of animals
For a whole bunch of applications, other bullets are better....