Sierra Matchkings 125gr

[Klondike]

Anyone hunt deer with these? I reload 4 other calibers and would never would with those but the description seems to indicate a thicker jacket than the normal matchkings.

If anyone has some load data and experience they would like to share beyond the recent Sierra recipe post on the website it would be appreciated

[Jim Timber]

They're not expanding, and shouldn't be used for hunting.

[300Blk]

You would never pick them for hunting, unless it was all you had. They probably hurt more than an arrow.

[rebel]

Bull crap - a sharp broadhead will kill efficiently-a SMK will just make a little hole.

[300Blk]

So by that token, an AK47 shooting a FMJ at 25 yards is less deadly than the bow? Somehow I don't think so.

[rebel]

Obviously you don't bow hunt. Now a heart shot is a heart shot, and no, there is no wound channel other than what the broadhead cuts, BUT, I have heart shot a deer with a bow, and watched it die. You heart shoot a deer with an FMJ and she's gonna run a while. A human will die right off on both because we are wienies. Define deadly-dead is dead-right? Back to subject- use an expanding bullet in your rifle to hunt with.

[Jim Timber]

A raccoon will keep fighting if shot with a field point in the lungs, twice. I know, because I've done it.

Ethical kill and dead are entirely different things.

[rebel]

I guess your point Jim is feild point- smk and broadhead -correct bullet ? I hope so. The bow has been used to make ethical kills for far longer than any firearm and I dearly love them as much as I do guns. I have seen far more deer hobbling around because of some dummy making a bad shot with a rifle or shotgun than I have with a bow. Probably because there are more gun hunters, but we all need to support one another as ethical, legal hunters and not disparage on ones use of a legal hunting weapon as long as is kills humanely. I respect all opinions even if I don't agree but hunters have it hard enough without arguing this subject-not that 300 BLK was. We were discussing lethality.

[Jim Timber]

Yep, field point is just about the same profile as a SMK too. Sure, it's 400fps too slow to be a subsonic loading, but the result is going to be quite similar. How much hydrostatic shock you can deliver with super loadings is something which hasn't been demonstrated. Either way, you're 1000fps under more traditional high power loads. It's like poking a needle through.

Broadheads work by either slicing arteries, or making the diaphragm stop functioning (blood loss or suffocation), much like a soft point bullet with the wound channel created and the large exit hole.

[rebel]

Well said and thank you