Besides you like them for the reason I despise them…. Yet you’re saying they only do that because I’m screwing them up?

Other than a blood shot mess they do fine if the deer is drt. I prefer a blood trail for when they are not drt. If you don’t take out the cns you will eventually have one that runs off where we hunt that’s no fun with a blood trail much less without!

I was just talking to Judd about this bullet tonight and my love-hate for it.

In my 270 with the Superformance ammo the results are sub par, until after 200 yards and then the bullet starts doing its job.

However, the SST in my 6.5 Grendel has been excellent on pigs, deer, coyotes out to 150 yards. Never an exit wound, but mass destruction inside.

Sst’s are tipped interlocks.

Which make them perform very differently.

Yep that nails it, two trains of thought on what good bullet performance is. I’ve shot a few deer when I first started hunting with 130 and 140 grain cup and core soft points in a 270 and 280. Most have big wound channels and an exit; however not all do. My first racked buck was a nice 8 I shot with my dads 280 and a 140 grain Winchester soft point that failed to leave an exit or blood trail. He ran less than 100 yards in thick brush with a good behind the shoulder shot. We found him by dumb luck after a lengthy look.

I shot a hill country 8 point years ago with a 150 grain hornady interlock in the neck…. No exit. Good buddy shot a hill country deer this year with a 308 and 130 grain ballistic tip shot entered under the eye and bullet was against the back of the head, dead deer poor bullet performance.

Shot a hog a few years ago at the ranch 270 150 interlock bullet entered on front shoulder hit the off side rib cage made a 90 degree turn into the guts. Was recovered after a follow up shot but again poor bullet performance.

After several similar instances my brother and dad said they would start shooting factory ammo again if I didn’t quit loading them hornady bullets.

I will probably buy a box of sst’s but it will be for blackout use around 2100 fps impact speeds. Currently shooting some 220 grain interlock round nose in my 30-06 just to get rid of them, had to slow them down to around 2300 fps muzzle before they wouldn’t just blow up on impact, and they are still a little more frangible than I would like. I’ve never lost an animal to them but have very little faith in them.

I’m a big fan of the eldx, moving the interlock ring made that bullet what the interlock tried to be and failed.

I've always looked at the SST as the perfect medium to slow speed bullet. Love it in 300blk. Testing it in 308 currently. 270 is too fast for SST IMO. I like accubond in my 270.

As do gut shot deer with poor shot placement.

That looks more like an exit wound. Entry wounds are generally the diameter of your bullet.

Sst flat out works

That looks more like an exit wound. Entry wounds are generally the diameter of your bullet.

Flag on post. Ad hominem attack.

If you're going to discuss these things you have to accept proficiency and understanding of posters. Otherwise you may as well just talk to yourself.

I shoot them in my 6.8. I kid you not, most of the hogs we shoot are DRT (with vital shots). If an animal does run, it’s a very short distance.