Federal Premium Sierra Game king, 100 grain 243 & 165 308. I apologize up front for the long post. Lol.
Didn’t know a better place to ask this question. If I have it in the wrong place please move it.
So I changed up my hunting ammo for my 243 and 308 this year. Mainly cause I couldn’t find what I normally use in my 308. I don’t use my 243 much for deer and decided to take it more this year. So I wanted to get a premium bullet. I’m trying to decide if I have an issue with quality or if these are really not liked in the hunting world. I know with the smaller calibers it’s shot placement and all but I’ve never had this problem before. What grain and bullet choice would you guys be using for these calibers? I don’t reload so I will need to by factory production ammo. I’ve never used this bullet before, but use different kinds of Federal ammo in all my guns.
Here are my issues. Shot 3 deer with the 308. The buck I center punched his right shoulder and got a pass through on left. Same shot with Hornady dropped bigger deer last year. He made it 65-70 yards. Double lunged 2 does. Each made it at least 80. I’ve never had deer do this with any 308 ammo in the past. Well yesterday I had the 243 with me. Shot a doe in the neck and watched her stand and drunkenly walk circles and walk about 20 yards or so. Little bit later shot a doe just behind left shoulder and exited right shoulder. She dropped and plowed with rear legs for a few feet. Flipped over got up and ran. She looped back to close to where I shot her but all in all went at least 60 yards.
Do I have an issue with expansion? The exit holes don’t seem to be as big. Is this bullet not made to expand as good as the old blue box Federal ammo? I’m lost! It does group extremely well in my guns and I bought a lot of it. Lol.
Didn’t know a better place to ask this question. If I have it in the wrong place please move it.
So I changed up my hunting ammo for my 243 and 308 this year. Mainly cause I couldn’t find what I normally use in my 308. I don’t use my 243 much for deer and decided to take it more this year. So I wanted to get a premium bullet. I’m trying to decide if I have an issue with quality or if these are really not liked in the hunting world. I know with the smaller calibers it’s shot placement and all but I’ve never had this problem before. What grain and bullet choice would you guys be using for these calibers? I don’t reload so I will need to by factory production ammo. I’ve never used this bullet before, but use different kinds of Federal ammo in all my guns.
Here are my issues. Shot 3 deer with the 308. The buck I center punched his right shoulder and got a pass through on left. Same shot with Hornady dropped bigger deer last year. He made it 65-70 yards. Double lunged 2 does. Each made it at least 80. I’ve never had deer do this with any 308 ammo in the past. Well yesterday I had the 243 with me. Shot a doe in the neck and watched her stand and drunkenly walk circles and walk about 20 yards or so. Little bit later shot a doe just behind left shoulder and exited right shoulder. She dropped and plowed with rear legs for a few feet. Flipped over got up and ran. She looped back to close to where I shot her but all in all went at least 60 yards.
Do I have an issue with expansion? The exit holes don’t seem to be as big. Is this bullet not made to expand as good as the old blue box Federal ammo? I’m lost! It does group extremely well in my guns and I bought a lot of it. Lol.