Thread: MatchKings for hunting?

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I haven't used the match kings but i would be inclined to use the 168 amaxes you also shot 5 under an inch.

Yeah, I just didn't like the velocity of those is all - they were shooting under 2500fps. Putting the info in my ballistics app the holdovers on my reticle don't work as well. Can only use 12.5x zoom to line them up instead of 15x with the SMK's. That's for holdovers at 300, 400, 450 and 500yds and zeros at 200.

Am I being too fussy? Have recalced the accuracy of both and it was 0.9 MOA on the AMAX's and 0.54 on the SMK's. So almost twice as accurate. And just under 2500fps vs 2700fps on the SMK's. What would you use taking all of that into account?

Originally Posted by ebf

What are you trying to achieve ? Do you want higher BC / better ballistics ? Are you shooting far enough for it to be necessary ?

Personally, I'd stick with hunting bullets for hunting. For 308 you have oodles of choice

Just for hunting, I guess 0-400m. I shot groups of nearly everything available in 150gr and 168gr, excluding FMJ, etc. The two above performed the best by quite a bit. 150gr SST Superformance was good too except for 1 flyer in a 5 shot group.

Edit - everything available from one shop anyway.