Author Topic: Hornady SST's (Read 693 times)

Camper · « **on:** December 07, 2005, 03:14:44 AM »

Anyone using SST's, and how did they work for you?

I shot at 2 does on Tuesday morning about 2 minutes apart.

Both does did not look like they were hit after I shot at them. I swore I missed both. 1st doe was at 90 yards and the second was at 115 yards. both ran away but did not kick, drop down, hunch up, or run with thier tails down. I got down out of my climber and went over 20 minutes later, there I met my buddy who had heard the shots and walked over. I told him that I had missed both deer and that I wanted to wrap my gun around a tree. What the hell!!!
We looked where I shot the at first doe and found a clump of hair, lung tissue and a good spray of blood, followed that trail and found her piled up 50 yards from where she was hit. The 250 gr SST went clean through her blowing the top third of her heart apart and taking the bottom of one her lungs out. lots of blood. My mood improved!

We went to spot where I shot at the second doe and found some hair and a small spot of blood. we followed her trail for 20 yards and found where she had stood and looked back leaving 1 puddle of blood the size of a pie plate. I knew then that she wasn't too far. Another 15 yards and she was piled up. Again the SST went clean through her but this time I must have twitched when I shot because it blew right through her guts. what a stinking mess. My mood further improved!
anyways the SST's did the job very well but I was expecting to see the deer fold up or at least run off looking like they were shot being that they were both fatal wounds.
My load was 130 gr of 777 pellets behind a 250 gr hornady SST.
My gun is a Traditions Pursuit Pro.

Camper

hiker270 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2005, 10:25:54 AM »

I shot 3 deer in North Carolina during their muzzleloader season with a 250 gr. Shockwave (same bullet) and had excellent results. The first a very nice 8 pt. @ 80yds. dropped in his tracks (shot through the shoulder), the second a doe @ 140 yds dropped on the shot but got up and ran about 30 yds and went down for good (shot through the lungs). The 3rd another doe @ 120 yds spun around in a circle and dropped ( also shot through the lungs). Bullet performance could not have been better, complete pass throughs on the does W/ total destruction of the lungs. The buck was shot through the shoulder, bullet went through and laid under the hide on the far side ( a perfect mushroom). My gun is a stainless Omega w/ a 3-10 Bushnell Elite 3200 scope. I was shooting 105 grs. of BM3 powder.

AndyHass · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:00:59 PM »

When you shoot a high BC bullet, they won't pile up like a hollow point. I've shot more than a dozen deer with the 200gr version, and have had them go down on the spot (shoulder shots) or take a shot through both lungs (usually hole through close one, gaping wound in opposite lung) and run 100 yds.

Oldsnow · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:40:56 PM »

Camper this is the third season that I have used the 250 SST. I have shot at and retreaved 27 deer in that time. Some droped on the spot, some I had to trail. I plan to use it the rest of this year. Next summer I am going to try the new Barns Spit-Fire TMZ that they are coming out with this winter.