300grn Hornady SST for Elk?

[bobcat]

And I also agree that the Hornady is a better bullet than the Powerbelt, at least ballistically, not necessarily performance wise on game, because I wouldn't know that without more information, or by testing them myself.

Anyway, it looks like the Powerbelt is capable out to 150 yards, by those numbers. Of course they are using 150 grains of Pyrodex, which is more than I would use. I don't like to go over 100 grains. But then I also am not comfortable shooting much farther than 100 yards with open sights.

[CP]

I doubt if anyone is going to get 2130 fps MV from the 300gr SST without using 209 primers.

I’ve chronographed the 300gr SST and other 300gr bullets out of my Knight Bighorn and 1850 fps is a more likely neighborhood.  But even so it is an accurate bullet.  I sight in at 150y and it is 10” low at 200y. 

[colockumelk]

I agree Bobcat.  I think one thing that neither of them showed and I couldn't find it was weight retention which to me means more than the trajectory.  I want to know what's gonna happen to my bullet as it passes through an animal. 

Obviously either one will do the job as long as the shot is correctly placed.  I'm with you on amounts of powder.  I shoot two 50grain pellets of Pyrodex.  I tried 150 grains one time just to see.  And it was not worth it.  I have better groups with 100grains anyways.