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Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: splitshot on December 30, 2012, 06:22:54 PM

Title: sst 50 cal
Post by: splitshot on December 30, 2012, 06:22:54 PM: just bought some sst,50 cal, 250 gr bullets for $15 which is $10 cheaper than average . are they ok for deer. you have to put the little plastic holders on the bullet. mike w
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: Sabotloader on December 30, 2012, 06:50:52 PM: Quote from: splitshot on December 30, 2012, 06:22:54 PM
just bought some sst,50 cal, 250 gr bullets for $15 which is $10 cheaper than average . are they ok for deer. you have to put the little plastic holders on the bullet. mike w

They work fairly well more often than not, but not a bullet I would use on deer at close range unless you reduce the powder charge to slow them down.

I guess I am thinking the little plastic things are 'the sabots' if so then yes if you are shooting them in a 50 cal ml..
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: elkh8me on January 02, 2013, 06:06:40 AM: i use the 300 gr SST for elk and the carry a TOP rating with me. Have killed three elk with them and they are the best I've found.
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: billythekidrock on January 02, 2013, 07:02:56 PM: I guess it depends on what you are wanting out of a bullet. I shot a couple boxes of the 250's earlier this year in preperation for elk, but I ditched them after I pulled a bunch out of my backstop. Very little expansion on nearly all of them.

I switched to the 300 Gr XTP Mag and it put a hurtin' on my elk. If I hunt ml for deer I will be using the 250 Gr XTP.
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: hillbilli on January 05, 2013, 10:13:26 AM: killed a couple whitetails with the 250gr sst.. 100gr powder. less than 50 yards, good clean kills, couldnt tell the wound channels from XTP's, didnt recover either bullet..
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: Nilehunter on January 05, 2013, 09:54:48 PM: My experience is they pass right through with little expansion. I'm moving to bloodline my self.
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: dawhunt on January 06, 2013, 05:55:19 AM: I shot a forked horn that was about 20 yds away from me,there was no way I could have missed !!!!!!! I was using my knight with 95 grs of 777 and a 300 gr. sst.

I shot him behind the shoulder he took off ,I went to the tree he was standing by no blood no hair no nothing !!!!!!!! The bullet went right thru him lost his tracks in the rocks so I ended up losing him.

I hate losing an animal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!:-(

I know for a fact that at 25 yds I had 3 bullets touching ,at 60 yds they opened up but were still a 1/2 in group, at a 100 yds they were a 11/2 -2 " group.

I really liked the way the shot but never ever did that happen with a power belt
so now I've got bullets I won't shoot again unless maybe elk hunting seeing as their a much bigger animal with bigger bones that would mushroom the bullet.

Didn't hunt this yr my partner moved to Arizona my kids live in Indiania and Georgia the other one is into archery and I',m almost 70 don't really want to hunt alone
so might not hunt next yr either. NEVER SAY NEVER I'll get my wife to go with me :-)

Bob
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: billythekidrock on January 06, 2013, 08:50:44 AM: These are some that I recovered from a railroad tie backstop.

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Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: dawhunt on January 07, 2013, 05:41:32 AM: Quote from: billythekidrock on January 06, 2013, 08:50:44 AM
These are some that I recovered from a railroad tie backstop.

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Only a couple mushroomed in a railroad tie. thats noy GOOD !!! I', switching back to powerbelts !!
Bob
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: hillbilli on January 07, 2013, 05:52:23 AM: dont judge sp or hp bullets by what they do in wood.. shoot a row of water jugs-something soft. then if you dont get expansion- then you can be concerned..
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: andersonjk4 on January 07, 2013, 12:33:47 PM: I shot my buck this year with a 250 grain SST with 100 grains of 777 behind it. I hit the buck right in the front shoulder at 163 yards. The bullet smashed the first shoulder and broke two ribs and smashed the far front shoulder before stopping against the hide on the far side. This was my first muzzleloader kill and I was pretty impressed with the bullets performance.
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 12, 2013, 10:51:57 AM: They just don't expand consistently! I pulled one out of a bull elk my buddy shot in 2009 that went in the front shoulder and lodged in the offside hind quarter(hard qtring2 shot) and the poly tip wasn't even blemished! This bullet hit bone also! Get some Speer deepcurls! this is what they look like after putting the smackdown!
Title: Re: sst 50 cal
Post by: RClare1223 on January 13, 2013, 11:35:55 AM: I will never use them again. We shot a bull 5 times at less than 50 yrds with them and never found a single drop of blood and lost the elk. I use 290gr barnes spit fire tm-ez and killed my bull at 200 yards and my buck at 150 the buck had a hole the size of a golf ball right through the lungs. Those are the best bullet out there i think.