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Big Game Hunting => Muzzleloader Hunting => Topic started by: jimmyt on September 15, 2010, 09:41:42 PM
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does anybody have any experience or thoughts on these bullets for elk
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I've shot the 300 grain sst bullets at some milk jugs and this is what happened. They had great accuracy but they seemed to come apart at impact.
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Since then I've switched to the Barnes tmz 300 grn bullet. They seem to hold up quite well and give you some pretty nasty looking petals to cut through their insides
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go with the Barnes ;)
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i do not like them. i have tested them like blsum and was not happy with the results.
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I tried the barnes but could not get them to go down the barrel my gun is a traditions vortec thee sst shot pretty good
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20gauge with SST's do a great job, plus very accurate slug. Not sure how they'd do in a ML. That Barnes looked awesome!
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Barnes has a tez bullet as well. The e stands for easy. As in easy to load. Give them a try. When your at the range are you cleaning/swabbing your gun between shots. After every shot I run a patch with bore butter, flip it over and run it again, scrubbing as I do this. Then I will run a dry patch to pick up any loose material, flip and again. Be sure not to use to use to much bore butter. Make sure that all the bore butter is soaked into the patch. We had some issues with excess bore butter on the patch coming off in the barrel and clogging the breech. Give it a try. It should make loading your gun a lot easier. :twocents:
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i tried with a clean barrel with lube they wouldnt go without a tremedense amount of force 4 inches maybe thats all i could do but the sst shot great so if im wrong hope not that what im shooting unless other sugestions they seem like a petty good bullet
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there's alot of people shooting the 300 gr, hornady SST including me,I won't be able to hunt this yr but I hope some of these folks will report back as to how they worked.
Bob
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Pretty compelling evidence there, BLSUM - How hot was the SST bullet load?
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Both bullets where shot into milk jugs at 100 yards with my t/c Black Diamond. using 100 grns of 777 ffg. and the german musket caps.
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Never had any problems with the Hornady SST's I actually had results like this...( not my photo)
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I do have to say that we did use them last year. 2 of the guys I hunt with got deer with them last year. We never recovered any bullets.
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I do have to say that we did use them last year. 2 of the guys I hunt with got deer with them last year. We never recovered any bullets.
I recovered two of mine and they looked like the pic I submitted. I am using them again this year for Deer and Elk. I will let you know what happens!
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I shoot the Vortec too. The Barnes TMZ's won't go down mine either unless you lube the sabot. With the Sabot lubed they go down.
What do you lube sabot with? plain bore butter or do you use something else??
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I went out and shot the muzzy last night through the Knight Bighorn..100 gr 777 pellets, RWS #11 Cap, .300 gr Hornady SST Lock and Load Sabot...I recovered two slugs they looked just like the pic I submitted above. Not sure why yours separated.
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I was with my friend yesterday and he dropped a mule deer in its tracks with the 300 grain hornaday SST. He shot it through the front legs it never got up but it took a few minutes for it to die. the bullet went clean through so we didn't recover it all. He was only about 30 - 40 yards away. Another friend shot a mulie with the platinum powerbelt and he double lunged it and it still ran normal looking for 100 yards and then dropped over. On a side note anyone have any favorite loads for a .50 knight bighorn?
