Thread: 6.5 120gr Sierra SPT Pro hunter vs 130gr HPBT GK

Ive got some 120 Pro Hunters I think? Are they the hot core? @Tahr sent me some to try like a year ago testing them this weekend but happy to flick you a handful

Just remember,any rutting-stag needs to be hit properly with any reasonable caliber...testosterone and adrenalin are a powerful combo... and .270's are great with 110gr pro-hunters..the only weight I bother using in them

Originally Posted by superdiver

Hey guys have settled on a longer range hunting projectile but not on a bush round yet. Come down to the above projectiles. Have used the GK in the 165s and was impressed but read good things about the 120 PHs. Also anyone have some laying around they no longer use that I could buy. Regards john

I think a few might have missed the Sierra GK in this case is the hollow point, in all calibers this particular bullet is tough and punches hard, a heavy bodied Bull Tahr at 5 feet? just the bullet you want! bc's are not great but as a 300yd pill I have used it lots and like it.

Yeah I ran the 165s in my 308 @257weatherby and it killed real hard on tahr, chamois, fallow and goats. But heard so much great stuff about the pro hunters so it is hard to make my mind up.

Originally Posted by rewa

Just remember,any rutting-stag needs to be hit properly with any reasonable caliber...testosterone and adrenalin are a powerful combo... and .270's are great with 110gr pro-hunters..the only weight I bother using in them

I have never tried the 110's but I have used the 90grn HP's on chams and goats. I don't want to come back as either one of them in another life !! And yes a stirred up stag can take some knocking down
Big and fast is best, but for what we are talking - a 260 we cant have both so a fast tough bullet must be better than a heavy but slow one - I think both these points being the general conclusion and the conclusion that superdiver had come too before posting. So which bullet is light enough to be driven fast and will open fast but still hold together ?.
Still think the Partition would be hard to beat out to 300metres
Personally I think the 260 is probably the best of the 308 derived chamberings and wouldn't mind one myself

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Personally I think the 260 is probably the best of the 308 derived chamberings

Never a truer word spoken Hail the holey 260

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

I have never tried the 110's but I have used the 90grn HP's on chams and goats. I don't want to come back as either one of them in another life !! And yes a stirred up stag can take some knocking down
Big and fast is best, but for what we are talking - a 260 we cant have both so a fast tough bullet must be better than a heavy but slow one - I think both these points being the general conclusion and the conclusion that superdiver had come too before posting. So which bullet is light enough to be driven fast and will open fast but still hold together ?.
Still think the Partition would be hard to beat out to 300metres
Personally I think the 260 is probably the best of the 308 derived chamberings and wouldn't mind one myself

I think 140s in 708 or 150s in 308 do that happy medium well...as do 140s in 260 if you crank it a bit

Yeah the 140eldms are doing 2770~ so sure I can get some reasonable speed out of whatever bush load I make up.

Sorry mate i was full tangled up with what they were

Been lookin for speer hc 120s lol

You will be stoked that your search is now over and you now have a photo you can save to your device and peruse at your leisure

Hahaha

Bloody hungus

I feckin love Speer hot cors. You got any spare. Just got rem mod 7 in .260

I did, but then someone said they dont make them anymore so im going to hang onto them for now. If they dont shoot il give em away