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I'm sure your post is all about the proven performance you have seen with a 197 grain SMK.
Look, here’s the straight skinny - you want to use a SMK for hunting (proven because you’ve already loaded up a bunch for that purpose), so you ask for anectdotal “evidence” about its performance on game. Which really will tell you next to nothing. But you’ll get a few that say they worked for them, and I’m sure you’ll consider them good to go.
The fact is it’s not a hunting bullet. It’s a match bullet. It’s not designed for use on game. The manufacturer itself goes so far as to say DO NOT use it for hunting - even though that’s directly against their pecuniary interest. Why? Because they understand the difference between a match bullet and a hunting bullet.
A few of you guys are “shooters” more than hunters - the proof in that is you’re constantly looking to fit square pegs into round holes trying to find ways to transfer your long range shooting stuff to the field of hunting. Some of it transfers and some of it doesn’t. This is just one of several examples that don’t - yet you are apparently unwilling to give up a mil or two of accuracy and are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater by risking wounding or lost game. Hunting is about cleanly killing animals. Period. If you are trying to kill game NOTHING is worth risking a clean kill.
I almost never post on you guys’ long-range shooting threads. I dang sure don’t post a bunch of stuff I know little about, give seat-of-the-pants “advice”, and then double down on my wrongness because someone disagrees with me. I know what I don’t know and know when I am out of my depth. Others could learn that lesson sometimes.
But forget about me. Sierra dang sure knows more about its bullets than you do. In an attempt to be kind I did not say so in my initial post, but it’s really should be an unnecessary question. If the common-sense deduction that you don’t want to be shooting animals (with the possible exception of thin-skinned varmints) with frangible lead bullets is not something you can understand or accept, then at least you could heed the manufacturer’s advice.