Been having some great luck shooting Sierra Game Kings and Speer BTSP bullets, they both shoot great in the same rifles and honestly it is hard to see any difference between them. My question is who makes the better BTSP bullet for hunting?
The differences as I understand them.
1. The Speer has a thinner jacket but a thicker base so it expands more readily and hence fragment more of it's weight, but the thicker base seems to reduce the chance of complete core-jacket separation.
2. While the Sierra is more likely to loose it's core it is a delayed separation that occurs in the vitals on normal shooting angles. That bullet "failure" is actually rather effective.
3. The Sierra seems to have a harder alloy core, I have heard of many cases where the jacket is found under the skin and the core exited, other bullets rarely if ever do this.
4. The Speer bullet normally have a higher BC despite the fact that they are often neatly identical in shape.
Anyone else noticed these things?
Who do you think is the king of the boat tail soft point bullets?
The differences as I understand them.
1. The Speer has a thinner jacket but a thicker base so it expands more readily and hence fragment more of it's weight, but the thicker base seems to reduce the chance of complete core-jacket separation.
2. While the Sierra is more likely to loose it's core it is a delayed separation that occurs in the vitals on normal shooting angles. That bullet "failure" is actually rather effective.
3. The Sierra seems to have a harder alloy core, I have heard of many cases where the jacket is found under the skin and the core exited, other bullets rarely if ever do this.
4. The Speer bullet normally have a higher BC despite the fact that they are often neatly identical in shape.
Anyone else noticed these things?
Who do you think is the king of the boat tail soft point bullets?