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I am thinking about loading up some Sierra125 Spiral point does anybody have any ideas if they will shoot good or any load data that they would have for it thanks

For deer hunting??????????

I use them as practice loads. About 47 grs. of H4895 is very accurate and it shoots the same zero as my 150 gr. TTSX w/ RS Big Game powder. Less recoil as well. E

My uncle used them for years for deer. It worked very well.

I used them once. It was on an antelope hunt. 1st bullet hit just behind the shoulder & blew up. An area about the size of my hand with no hair or hide. No penetration, the antelope was knocked off it's feet. My 2nd shot anchored the buck. Last time I used 125 grain bullets.

Very accurate in the 308

Sierra makes them hard, with a thick jacket and a higher-antimony core. They are not a varmint bullet. That said, shooting a light-for-caliber c&c bullet at high speed and expecting it to bust shoulders is....ignorant. If you shoot for ribs, they work fine.

I shoot them with IMR4064 in 30-06. Max load per Hodgdon website data.

My guns shot them well with RL15, really well actually.

125 Remington CoreLokt at moderate speed is an absolute killer. Always exit with a very nice wound all the way through.

Not for me thanks. I am of the mindset that the 06 is best suited to bullets of 150 grains or heavier. Today's mono metals help,but light bullets of .30 caliber start to look like bricks. Tipped TSX have a lot more appealing profile than the old 125 grain cup and core did.

As an aside, I had a bullet stay in a deer this past season. It's happened one other time in 35 plus years of shooting deer with the 30/06. A 150 ballistic tip. Now this was a big mature pig of a buck,but a rib on the off side stopped the remains of the bullet. Basically the jacket. The chest cavity on the off side was peppered with frag. Core I figure. At any rate. The buck bounced when he hit the ground. Dropped like a bad habit. The only other time a whitetail caught a bullet for me was another big old bruiser buck. Smashed both front shoulders. Didn't exit. That was one of the early Combined Tech bullets. Can't say with certainty what weight it was,so I won't.

Admittedly,variables came into play with this season's deer. Range,velocity,body size,bullet construction. An A Bond,TTSX,Partition would have likely exited. No large bones were hit. I like exit wounds. Can't see applying the 125 grain sp to the 06 at its velocities,and potential close shots. To me,find a near maximum honey of a load using a quality 180 grain bullet,and reap the best of what the 06 has to offer.

I want to try the 130 TTSX’s for the hell of it.

The only bullet I’ve ever had not go all the way through a deer has been a 30-06. And it happened 4 times. 2 150gr core lokts, 1 165gr core lokt, and 165gr federal fusion.

All other bullets from 85gr to 225gr have gone through.

I tried a few years ago in my culling including;
110gn Sierra HP
125gn Speer TNT
130gn ADI
130gn Speer HP
130gn Barnes TTSX

The 130gn Speer was always the best of them and over a stiff charge of AR2208/VARGET because the test of all .30/06 rifles as the load dumped 5 under an inch in any rifle worth buying.
It was also quite good for deer sized game when directed into the lungs.
The 130gn TTSX has earned its reputation as a game bullet.
John

When you can easily get 2400 FPS out of 150s with LeverEvolution powder in a 30-30, and you have the option of pulling the plastic tip out of 130 grain TTSXs it seems like a dumb idea to mess with filing lead points off spitzers. If you need more range than a 2400 FPS 150 gives you it's not so much a question of improving the load as it is of finding an appropriate cartridge.

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I have been using this barnes bullet in 130 for whitetail and mule deer bucks ,its an excellent bullet to use and very accurate,barnes bullet company does recommend using a neck crimp die too,which I did and it did also improve accuracy too. lee neck crimp dies are less than $20.00

With an 06 there all kinds of combinations possible. Last Fall I used a 170 gr. Hornady over either 43 or 44 gr. of I4895. Did a heck of a job on a spiker. This load was within the guidelines for that weight of bullet according to Hornady.

Jim

Didn't Nosler come up with the 125g NAB just for the .308 and .30-06 for deer sized game?

Just for you I think I will shoot a deer this year with a 125gr bullet out of my 30-06. Don't worry, there won't be any whining posts about an outfitters draw blood policy...

My father used to get it done quite well with a 30 Herrett handgun and 125 grain bullets. Pop could shoot though.