Thread: 7mm 160 tipped match king on deer

The go any good? Starting at say 2850 fps.

@Rock river arms hunter shoots them in his 284 and he is a big fan

Will be really interested in this thread as I’ve just started using the .308 195 TMK

Originally Posted by mimms2

Go at 5000FPS and they'll kill anything within 10 miles as long as you do your bit on the trigger.

Useful.

Run 125 TMK's in my 30arx ( I still haven't knocked anything over with it yet ) but from what Brads said it was a good killing bullet.

They are similar in performance to the amax/eldm

Originally Posted by mimms2

Whaddaya mean "is a bullet any good for killing things?" ?? it's kinda exactly what they were made for. Realistically, you can kill a deer with pointy sticks screwed into your skull. Anything more is a luxury.

Learn to shoot, do some load development, go kill things.

Yeah. I know how to shoot, and I know about load development and I’ve killed more “things” than a fair few on this forum. I was asking a “general” question of people’s experience using this bullet on deer - starting at 2850 fps.

Originally Posted by DLW

They are similar in performance to the amax/eldm

Ta mate.

Originally Posted by Philipo

Run 125 TMK's in my 30arx ( I still haven't knocked anything over with it yet ) but from what Brads said it was a good killing bullet.

Cheers Phil. We will kill something soon with that rifle. Want to see how it rolls!

Originally Posted by Ginga

The go any good? Starting at say 2850 fps.

I use the .223 69grn on deer at 3080 fps and they have been excellent out to 340 yards. Good penetration and expansion. Super accurate.

Originally Posted by Ginga

The go any good? Starting at say 2850 fps.

I run mine at 2830fps.

Absolutely outstanding performance.

I'm running 168s in my 308 and will be running the 160s in my 284 aswell as my new to me 7mm08 model 7.

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

I run mine at 2830fps.

Absolutely outstanding performance.

I'm running 168s in my 308 and will be running the 160s in my 284 aswell as my new to me 7mm08 model 7.

Thanks for that. Haven’t had much luck getting eld x to shoot. Groups are a bit hit and miss but kill ok. Thought the tmk might be a bit easier to get to shoot!

Originally Posted by Ginga

Thanks for that. Haven’t had much luck getting eld x to shoot. Groups are a bit hit and miss but kill ok. Thought the tmk might be a bit easier to get to shoot!

Best of all as I found out in my 308. A Max's are ballistically and POI speaking : identical to the TMKs.

I run 44.5gr 2208 in my 308 and it makes the 168gr TMK run at 2680fps with the A Max's doing exactly the same thing which is really great

Are these the" gamechanger"tmk's we're talking about or are they different?

Originally Posted by widerange

Are these the" gamechanger"tmk's we're talking about or are they different?

I believe they are different. Gamechanger = eldx and TMK = eldm....thats how I see it