150 gr. Hornady SST in .308 on hogs?

[rickt300]

Probably push it to near 2900 fps out of my 30-06. Hornady literature says the bullet has a thick jacket for deep penetration. Wondering how this bullet compares to the Ballistic Tip.

[Land_Owner]

My $0.02:

Thick jacket and long penetration is not the "end all" in hunting hogs.  Bullet PLACEMENT is.  The Ballistic Tip is designed to fly true and dynamically and explosively expand at impact imparting tremendous energy on target.  BT penetration is secondary.

We're killing hogs with the 22 LR (DRT) through the 50 BMG (not much left).  It isn't high penetration, large caliber, or speed that kills.  It is immediately disrupting the central nervous, circulatory, or skeletal system to a degree that renders any or further flight useless.

Whack 'em right and they bang flop right there.  whack 'em right and it does not matter what caliber, speed, or "toughness" the characteristic of the bullet. 

Of course, if you have to End-to-End 'em, I bet that Hornady 150 grainer will do the job.

[rickt300]

Planning to use the bullet in my Remington 7400 hog killer. I mostly do head and neck hits because hog ribs are high on my list of edibles. Sometimes though you just gotta take the hard angles. I am hoping the SST will feed slickly from the magazine and into the chamber without getting banged up.

[Land_Owner]

What distances are you shooting?  I have shot "buggered up" lead tipped jacketed bullets all my life.  Nosler, Speer, Hornady, Federal, and Winchester.  If your rifle has a magazine, like my Win. Model 70, every subsequent lead tipped round is flat nosed, and some are pinched and crimped depending on the number of times they have been loaded into the magazine.  Certainly rounds two through five are not "Factory Fresh" after touching off the first one as the momentum of the rifle slams the "unsuspecting" bullets into the leading edge of the magazine - flattening each and every one of them.  Still, I am single shot killing both deer and hogs out to 220 yards with less-than-pristine nosed rounds.  I am getting very good to excellent groups on paper targets too.  I believe that true trajectory is more about bullet-powder-barrel harmonics-and-stability of flight than the aerodynamics of the bullet's nose.  Lead tipped bullets are either sheared off or smoothed by the massive air friction at or near the muzzle, or the stabilizing rotation of the round (210,000 rpm's +/- for my 270 Winchester velocity) centrifically rounds the soft lead into a ballistic projectile when propelled over three times the speed of sound.  Slamming that lead tip going forward into the air and asking it to rotate at the same time has got to be some kind of violent ride for the molecules that are jumbled up there.

[BBF]

I have wondered more then once what happens to a pristine pointy lead tip at those speeds.

[Land_Owner]

scatterbrain,

You signature works perfectly as a "follow-up" to your response.  hehe.

[rickt300]

I am not worried so much about point deformation as I am the round feeding slickly into the chamber from the 7400's box magazine. This rifle occasionally jams with round nosed bullets but never the pointed ones. I ran out of the 500 165 gr. Rem. PSPCL's I used for several years and hope these will take their place without any trouble.

[rugerfan.64]

Thats what I used last week on one. It was fired from a 308 at around 2850. It didnt end to end him as they say but since the only shot i had was facing me it put him down right there.

[rickt300]

Going out back to empty some brass and load some of the SST's up. Using IMR 4350 and Wolf magnum primers for the load, probably around 58.0 grains to start.

[drdougrx]

You'll have no problem.  Shot a 260lb boar with a 150gr BT out of  270 at 80ish yards across a small field.  Raking short.  Bullet hit a bit far back and high, crossed through the lungs and upper chest, traveled along the neckline and exited just below the opposite jaw. 

[emsemt911]

i tried the 150 fr in my .308  I could not hit the side of a barn at 50 yds.  I was shooting 8-10 inches.  Part of it was a HORRIBLE hogue stock.  I replaced it with a B&C stack. 
I had to stay with the 180 gr to get sub moa groups.
Just try the round in your gun before you try a hunt.