Thread: MatchKings for hunting?

Originally Posted by ebf

Hehe, that's one way of looking at it depending on the type of projectiles your mate uses, guess he gets lots of practise following blood trails.

Soft points or barnes solid for me tx, I like the bang flop approach

I don't know what bullets he uses, however, if you read the fourth (I think it is) post to this thread, I say that the 180 grain SMK's shoot best in my rifle, (.300 Win Mag) so I'm as equally interested in the "punter's verdicts" as the person is who posted this thread, and this was a question I asked my mate only yesterday, and that was his response! I personally prefer the hit and drop method myself, and I've traditionally been a "Nosler Ballistic Tip" man, but if you aint gonna hit 'em!...

Ive gone back to using the 175smk 7mm, from the 162amax

Originally Posted by striker

Ive gone back to using the 175smk 7mm, from the 162amax

what were your reasons for doing that ? keen to understand what caused you to decide that.

Not a magic pill. Shot placement has a lot to do with the knock down performance

Originally Posted by ebf

what were your reasons for doing that ? keen to understand what caused you to decide that.

easier to get, they shoot better in my rifles and in my experiance they work just as well as an amax

Originally Posted by Toby

Going from the experince of people who have used them here (in the larger cals) it's worth a shot.

Yeah. At this point the only bad things i've read from people who've hunted with them seems to be high velocity small cal like 223's.