Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 300 WSM for southern deer.

A 25.06 will drop northern deer in their tracks as good as any rifle made, and from what I've read these whitetails and/or muleys are probably at least 50% larger than their southern kin...if not bigger. Enough DRT kills with Federal 117 Sierra Gamekings BTSP to make me a believer.

So, if I were going to use a 300 WSM for southern deer, I'd be thinking along the lines of TTSX 130s. Long, flat, and lethal...with less recoil, which is noticeable in something like an A7 or T3, even with a LimbSaver installed. I'd use the TTSX (or the equivalent thereof from other makers) over the TSX for assured expansion on such relatively thin skinned and light weight game.

I use 130 TTSX for elk in my 300 WM, and can't come up with a single reason to use anything bigger. Sure makes my Vanguard a lot more enjoyable to shoot more than a half dozen rounds at the range, too.

FWIW.

We hunt the same 90 lb deer on south arkansas timber company land. I've loaded my father-in-laws 300wsm with 165 nosler BT's for the last 3 years. I don't think it's soft enough for these little deer. Very few DRT's. Quite a few pass thru's without big expansion. Gonna switch to 150 Sierra Gamekings for next season. In my 7RM, the 140 GK absolutely pulls the rug out from under them. As does the 130 in my .270 Win. Where we hunt, mainly power and gas lines, long straight shots surrounded by super thick vegetation and pine plantations. Either DRT or lose them.. Quite often that is the case. A TTSX would not be ideal, unless you were breaking bones, shoulder shots.

GameKings are excellent for deer, as would be Fusions. For 90 lb deer, they'd indeed be better choices than TTSX and the like.