Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Hornady has a new 8mm 170 grain SST

With a short bearing surface like that those 170 gr SST's should be capable of impressive velocity. Great picture.

Some measurements in my rifles.

OAL (contacting lands)
M70 3.156
M700 3.174

Bullet seated to bottom of cannelure: 3.052 OAL (.286 of bullet being gripped. Measured from top of boat tail.)

Base of bullet to the beginning of case neck: 3.13 OAL (leaves .192 gripped by the neck.

Thanks for the 8x57 info!


Dissected a few 8mm bullets today. I'll shoot some water jugs when the bottom metal arrives for my Remington. And then a few deer in October.




SST, Kurz, Ballistic Tip






180 Nosler, 170 Hornady, 125 Hornady, 150 Hornday, 170 SST, 150 Sierra



The 170 SST should make a nice 8x57 deer bullet.

Both the SST and the Ballistic Tip look very nice. The SST should be an excellent bullet for deer sized game.

Great post Chrome!

Getting to be more and more good 8mm bullets, tho my favorite is still the 175 Sierra Pro Hunter. 2830 with 4320 in my Classic.
I`ve also used the 175 grn Privi with excellent results on WT`s.
Will try a box, if I can get some from Graff`s.

I've seen a few SST bombs and I can't get all warm and fuzzy over an 8mm version, but you boys enjoy.

That they are�but I could push these to close to 3k in my 8mm AI. A great jug load..

Same here.

I flat out won't use an SST on big game. They are perfectly suitable for prairie dogs and coyotes, though.

Well PG,
something we agree on. LOL

I've found the SST's to be more frangible than I like.

I use the 180 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip and the 200 gr. Accubond in my dark-thirty hog thumper. At 2,850 FPS they work.




Best,


GWB

I've used heaps of SSTs mainly on pigs and of late mainly the 150g out of the 270 Win. I usually shoot for shoulder and haven't had one fail to penetrate or kill reliably.

And I am talking hundreds of pigs in the last few years.

I agree however that the Nosler Ballistic Tips in like for like comparison are generally tougher.

You're probably way ahead of me on head count.

My tally over the past 15 years or so would probably be around 400 give or take. I used to keep a journal of everything I shot, what caliber, load, distance and date, too lazy now.

My shot of preference is about two inches below the ear on a line between the ear and shoulder. If I do that it severs the spine, they drop and paddle. Where I hunt it's quite dense.



If they are not DRT, especially at dark-thirty you generally don't find them unless you have hounds, which I don't.

I think a lot is personal preference. In the 17's 20's and 22's' I have and continue to use Hornady's.

In the 6MM up I tend to use Nosler.

Over the last several years I've been using more and more Accubonds.



Ballistic tips are my go to in the 130/.277, 180/8mm, 200gr Ballistic S/T/338 for hoglets, but I still load and shoot a few others...




Best,

GWB

I just use Sierra 150 Gr and 47-48 grains of H4895 in my Mauser rifle,bout 2700 fps and kills whitetails (100-250 pounds)just fine at ranges from 10-250 yards .

Super pic. The first time I've seen a cross sectional comparison with the 180NBT. That thing is a brute. I'm thinking that it would have no problems with elk at 2600-2650 fps.

The BT is a bit 'brutish' not the SST

The BT is tough in the bottom. Killed several smaller doe with them (double lung). They open quick with DRT.

I'm going to run the 170 gr SST out of a 20" barreled 700, shouldn't push it to hard, heck I'm going to drill a few with the 125 gr HP...

That 180 grain BT is one evil looking mo fo.

Yeah I bet the 125 grain would kill them as well.
I was just looking for a load that wouldn,t kick to much and replicate the 300 savage ballistics and that load does it.
I also killed a few with the PRVI 196 grain soft factorY load and while it does kill it gives up way too much expansion for penetration.
think shoot in chest find in butt.
The Sierras on the other hand will exit on a 10 yard shoulder shot and still expand great past 250 yards which is the farthest I have them so far.

No fk'n [bleep], so 8mm is at a higher demand than .243, .223 and .784........idjits!

I agree they should produce bullets for you boring vanilla guys.