Sierra Bullets. [email protected]. Flatnose bullets are designed especially for rifles with tubular magazines. Bullets in this classification have thin jackets to enhance expansion but with sufficient strength to be fired at the highest muzzle velocities in the cartridges for which they are intended. The Hollow Point shape has an opening in the nose, which depending on the use of the bullet, may be designed for complete fragmentation, controlled expansion, or no expansion at all (MatchKing). With the wide range of Hollow Point bullet performance capabilities, proper bullet selection for a particular use is crucial to ensure the desired performance in the field. Sierra’s Power Jacket provides positive, uniform and controlled expansion by means of specially placed skives in the jacket around the tip of the bullet. Big difference in design HP to SP in Gamekings. Semi-Point is a bullet shape designed to provide heavy bullet weight within a given bullet length, and at the same time provide a ballistic coefficient higher than either the flat nose or round nose bullet shapes. He speaks about both the boat tail soft point (game king) and the pro hunter, which would be the flat base spitzer. Gold $$ Contributor. Full Profile Jacket (FPJ) is a design concept featuring a thick, tough jacket that covers the entire profile of the bullet. firstshot Tipped a synthetic tip integrated into the bullet design to improve ballistic coefficient(BC) /aerodynamics and providing expansion characteristics. Sierra's Custom-Tapered Pro-Hunter Jacket Design helps Assure Maximum Expansion, Op... (5) BACKORDERED ... Sierra Gameking 30 Caliber 150 Grain Full Metal Jacket Boat Tail 100/Box Md: 2115 Bullets. They will kill, but I quit looking when I shot the first whitetail with 100gr. There is a lot of misinformation out there. The information below has been prepared to help you choose the right Sierra Bullet for you in any application, whether hunting or target shooting. These bullets are designed for a combination of penetration and expansion in medium and heavy game animals for their calibers. The author has decades of hunting experience with all sorts of bullets. You are using an out of date browser. BlitzKing Bullets: These bullets are designed for explosive expansion in varmints and small game and with accuracy characteristic of the MatchKing bullets. Their shapes include hollow point boat tail (HPBT), spitzer boat tail (SBT), and full metal jacket boat tail (FMJBT). It gives all the penetration and expandtion I need on deer at less than 100yd. Sierra re-engineered their legendary MatchKing bullet into a hollow point design for quick expansion and fitted it with a transparent green tip for ballistic uniformity. The majority of these bullets have a boat tail shape to further minimize drag and improve ballistic coefficient. GameKing Bullets: All bullets in this classification are for hunting and all have boat tails. SIERRA 22 (.224) 55gr SBT BULLET GAMEKING 100/bx . Used in the MatchKing (TMK) line providing uniform expansion to allow the bullets to be used in varmint hunting and downrange velocity retention. My personal favorite in the .243 is the Sierra Game King 85 gr. +1 of the Sierra 150 grain Pro Hunter - used it for many years with Varget or IMR 4064 - very accurate and flat shooting in my 24" 308 Rem 700. That includes Sierra GameKing and Pro Hunter; Speer Hot-Cor, Mag-Tip and Boat Tail; Hornady InterLock, SST and LeverEvolution (FTX); Nosler Ballistic Tip and Partition; Remington Core-Lokt and AccuTip; Winchester Power Point, Silvertip and Ballistic Silvertip; Federal Soft Point and Fusion; Swift Scirocco; etc., etc. This has been an amazingly accurate bullet in every 30 caliber rifle I have tried it in. Great accuracy and knock down. With their boat tail shapes, they have high ballistic coefficients, retain their velocities well, and resist crosswinds and vertical winds well as they fly. TournamentMaster Bullets: Competition-style handgun bullets built for accuracy. The result is a small opening in the bullet tip over a large cavity for a good ballistic coefficient and balance. My own particular favorite is the GameKing hollowpoint, with the crimped nose in the form of an X. TournamentMaster bullets are designed and manufactured for exceptional accuracy and are non-expanding at typical handgun velocities. Sierra's two bullet lines are differentiated only by base configuration, not internal design, specification, quality of materials, assembly or quality control. Sierra started making bullets in 1947 in a Quonset hut in California. Pro-Hunters are flat base bullets. Jacketed Soft Point (JSP) is a classic bullet design for deep penetration with high weight retention on medium and large game. It features excellent accuracy and dependable expansion at longer ranges in those game animals. Everyone seems to rate them for accuracy. The shapes of bullets in this classification include hollow point (HP), spitzer pointed flat base (SPT), and semi-pointed (SMP). They have the 145 bt for $16.95-100 to. Intended for maximum momentum transfer to steel targets, this design generates good dwell time on the target for maximum “push.” The heavy base is fully enclosed to withstand the high pressures of magnum loads and maintain “match” accuracy. The Power Jacket has a series of “skives” cut into the mouth of the jacket. It may not display this or other websites correctly. What’s the general preference on here? The bullets in this classification have medium to heavy weights in each caliber. Sig V-Crown Bullets: Personal defense bullets built for optimal weight retention and expansion. Their purpose is hunting varmints and small game, and they are designed to expand reliably at velocities in the 2500 to 2800 fps range, although they can be loaded in cartridges generating up to 3500 fps muzzle velocity. The pro hunters are supposed to be a tougher bullet. I've heard some good things about the game kings with a dose of reloaded 22. Inside, the GameChanger features a unique construction that utlilizes a special lead alloy surrounded by a tough copper jacket that delivers excellent penetration and expansion at a variety of ranges. The bullet profile is engineered to guarantee smooth, trouble-free feeding in semi-auto pistols and is complemented by the jacket that covers all but the point of the bullet. Sierra has for decades been at the forefront of bullet accuracy, yet it has lagged behind in bullet innovation. Here is what Nathan Foster, founder of ballistic studies has to say about this particular bullet in 25-06. The spitzer shape is readily identified by a characteristic long ogive point shape closing with either a small diameter exposed lead tip or with the proprietary compound tips in Sierra’s BlitzKing bullets. As with the Pro-Hunter bullet, this GameKing bullet has a jacket produced by Sierra's unique four-station jacket draw process. None of these are manufactured to the same close tolerances of the MatchKings. They fly extremely well, better than I can shoot, and bullet holes are often touching at 100 yrds. Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) is an old standby Sierra bullet design featuring Sierra’s unique Power Jacket. Built with the same exacting quality and integrity of the Sierra MatchKing reputation. 30 cal 180 grain Sierra game king bullet. Without the bullet, a round of ammunition isn't finished. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. For over 70 years Sierra Bullets has been dedicated to the manufacture of the most accurate bullets in the world. The large opening and Power Jacket skiving assure unfailing expansion under all conditions and strike angles. Roundnose bullets are a traditional design often used by hunters in areas affording shots at game only at short ranges. It has over 1100 pages of information that every reloader needs. Second choice would be either the 95 gr partition or BT, which ever your gun shoots better. The bullets in this classification are available in three different configurations; Jacketed Soft Point (JSP), Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP), and Jacketed Hollow Cavity (JHC) styles. Jacketed Hollow Cavity (JHC) is a design unique to Sierra and acclaimed for superior performance. I’ve heard good things about the gamekings but put offf by the fact that they’re hollow point. Outstanding examples of this type of bullet are Nosler's Ballistic Tip, Sierra's Pro Hunter and GameKing, Hornady's SST, Winchester's Power Point and Deer Season XP, Berger's VLD Hunting, Remington's CoreLokt and CoreLokt Ultra Bonded, and Browning's new BXR. They are manufactured to the very highest quality standards. Sierra’s FMJ bullets also have the boat tail configuration. Jump to Latest Follow ... Just wanted ideas on best hunting bullets. The Hollow Point shape has an opening in the nose, which depending on the use of the bullet, may be designed for complete fragmentation, controlled expansion, or no expansion at all (MatchKing). 1400 W Henry St Features include a special lead alloy core formulated to provide proper expansion qualities. You might want to try the Sierra 150 gr Pro Hunter. Phil Mahin at Sierra did say "Every now and again, I’ll get reports that our GameKings are more fragile than our Pro-Hunters (with all other things theoretically equal) and my theory for a reason is because there is less bearing surface on a GameKing. Reactions: NickB1075 and MrMajestic. They are mostly soft points and a few hollow points and most are boattails. These bullets are of 40 and 45 grains in weight designed in the traditional shape for the 22 Hornet cartridge. The most popular are described below. Find the caliber of bullet you need to make your ammo right at home. Sierra’s handgun bullets are separated into three classifications, depending on the intended application, design features, and the range of cartridges that may use the bullet. In my CZ 550 7x57 I get 0.5" group at 100 yards with the 140 Game King. All these bullets have medium to heavy weights in each caliber, and they are designed for a combination of penetration and expansion in medium and heavy game animals for their calibers. Item #: SRA1355 $0.20 per round Volume Discounts Available . The GameChanger bullet line has benefitted with the tip providing initial expansion to a very heavily constructed hunting bullet plus long range velocity and energy retention. All but one are of boattail configuration. (888) 223-3006 The lighter bullets in 20 & 22 calibers are designed to be fired at muzzle velocities up to 4400 fps. These bullets have very thin jackets drawn to an exacting concentricity standard of 0.0003 in maximum variation, and their weight is held to within ± 0.3 grain. We hope that the rifle bullet descriptions in this section will help you make the correct bullet selections for your applications as well as your shooting conditions. The driving motivation for the design of each MatchKing bullet is accuracy. I do like the pro hunter but there very similar. With the proprietary acetyl resin tips added, and ogive dimension changes, the ballistic coefficient is even further enhanced to increase down-range performance. Sierra does not market a "premium" bullet line, because they go to great lengths to make every Sierra a premium bullet. The large diameter meplat greatly reduces the chance of recoil-induced ignition of cartridges in the magazine when the rifle is fired. It is an excellent choice for combat or speed type competitive shooting situations. The skives ensure positive and controlled expansion of the bullet at moderate velocities and are used in several Sierra handgun bullets as well as flat nose rifle bullets. Comparing same weight & construction Prohunters to SP Gamekings. Thus, boat tail bullets have lower sensitivity to crosswinds, higher retained velocity downrange, flatter trajectories, and higher energy and momentum delivered to the target than their flat base counterparts. Plus at stalking ranges they usually allow you to produce tighter groups. A few bullets in this category have Sierra’s proprietary Power Jacket to enhance bullet expansion in game animals when fired from medium-velocity cartridges. Performance is certainly nothing to rave about, penetration is fair on light bodied animals, wounding is thorough but not spectacular and with a BC of .356, the Pro-Hunter sheds velocity fairly quickly. 08-13-2008, 08:55 AM #4. david dumas. Item #: SRA1390 $0.22 per round Volume Discounts Available . FMJ bullets also allow hand loaders to effectively duplicate 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm ball ammunition for use in military style rifles. Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) bullets are easily recognized by the jacket, which covers the entire bullet forward of the base with only a small amount of exposed lead at the base. SIERRA 22(.224) 55gr HPBT BULLET GAMEKING 100/bx . There is no “universal” bullet – that is, no single bullet for all shooting applications and all shooting conditions. The large amount of exposed lead at the nose causes positive expansion of these bullets at moderate velocity levels. Powder valley has speer bt 130 for $13.95-100, there a little softer but I think if keeping them under 3000 should be fine. I have personally had conversations with engineers at Sierra about rifles we have in common about what bullets they use on game. I load down the 180gr. These are the the results of testing four types of powder with each powder getting 3 charges each to look for an accuracy node in each type of powder. Bullets labeled as Blitz are designed for medium velocity (under 3600 fps). Spitzer is a term taken from a German word that means sharp pointed. Designed for flawless feeding characteristics in semi-automatic pistols, it is also recognized for its deep penetration due to its heavy jacket. Bullet selection is, of course, a personal preference, but there are some important technical considerations that must be addressed. When used at reduced velocities, Sierra’s FMJ bullets are nonexpanding in light game, and often are an ideal choice for varmint or predator hunters wishing to minimize pelt damage. firing a 150-gr. As with the MatchKings, they are designed for maximum accuracy performance as the utmost goal. Sierra “Game King” bullets have earned superlative accolades for years and years. A large amount of exposed lead at the nose of these bullets causes positive expansion in game at moderate velocity levels, especially those with a Sierra Power Jacket. Shape and characteristic features easily distinguish each design. My .270 shot factory Norma 110g vmax very well so was tempted to try 110 + 130 grain pro hunters or am I better with the gamekings? As always if you have any questions about the information below please contact us here or by calling 1-800-223-8799. Wholesale Hunter offers a wide selection from the top manufacturers including Hornady, Barnes Bullets, Sierra, Nosler, CCI and many more. Depends what you want as for example the 30cal165grain Hpbt Game King is tougher than the 165 grain spbt Game King. Joined Aug 19, 2009 Messages 11 Location Kingston, Tennessee. If the Speers come out on top I'll just buy me a lifetime supply and be done with it. Tipped MatchKing Bullets: This classification includes 12 bullets in the following calibers. I've loaded some Sierra but never had hunted with sierras. Not as explosive. Sierra Bullets has been producing some of the most accurate bullets in the world since 1947. So you experienced guys who uses game kings on elk let me know what you think. MatchKing Bullets: This is the classification for Sierra’s pre-eminent target bullets. A fast-expanding design for low to moderate velocities and self-loading handguns. Thanks for all the feedback on the Pro-Hunters & Game Kings. Positive but controlled expansion is ensured by the unique cavity, which is formed in the core prior to final nose forming. Sierra GameKing Pro Hunter Bullets. Midsouth Shooters has been proud to offer a full selection of Sierra reloading bullets for over 30 years. I won't use anything else. Sierra pro hunter flat base to about 2500fps for deer. We now carry every bullet that they offer for resale. These features combine to form a bullet that will function flawlessly from all auto-loading handguns with excellent terminal ballistic performance. TournamentMaster bullets are available in two design configurations: Full Profile Jacket (FPJ) and Full Metal Jacket (FMJ). GameKings are Sierras premier hunting bullets. I would use a little tougher bullet like the 180 Hornady interlok at 2700fps for elk. Its a 3006. In the 1980s, he took an excellent blacktail deer with a Winchester Model 88 in .308 Win. ). Some bullets just seem to work, and this is one of them. The unique upset qualities of this design and strict dimensional tolerances combine to provide unsurpassed accuracy and performance. This is an excellent … The skived, tapered Power Jacket is engineered for positive but even upset, while the core is specially formulated to provide maximum expansion over a wide velocity range. $19.69. SportsMaster Bullets: Handgun bullets designed for hunting or personal defense, built for reliable expansion.