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I hope you meant the 160 or the 175 SBT . THE 165 is a 30cal. Might have a hard time a squeezing thru your .284 bbl.

Nope - they are 165 grain Sierra GameKings BTSP from Federal Premium for 7mm Mag.........link here:

http://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/rifle.aspx?id=373

You can depend on that weird crimp HPBT to be tougher than it's Sp counterpart, call Sierra, they will tell you so.

I shot them in a 308 and 30/06, VERY accurate bullets.

Ahhh...factory ammo. Thx. Didn't know that. Learn something every day.

The 90gr .25cal is supposed to be the cat's meow. powdr

Factory ammo? I shot some of that back in the 60's. I didn't know they were still making it.

Yea still making it...............shoots like this out of my 7mm Mag:

All I use out of my 270 is the SGK hpbt. I have killed more whitetails than I can count, the majority of which have not gone far at all.

Since the SMPs are pretty much gone from Sierra's line up, it is the HPs are the first bullet I'd reach for in their product line, if I wasn't reaching for their good old Round Noses left in the product line...

Ok, I'm convinced. This morning I pegged this large bodied 3x3 from 130 yds. He was in sagebrush and my only shot was a high shoulder. It put him smartly down but not out. I had to use a kill shot from 5 yds.

The 1st shot did plenty of damage to down him but it didn't explode like what I've seen AB's do many times. The kill shot was another story. My only angle was straight on and right under the chin. It totally blew out one shoulder blade as it exited. I suppose that would be expected from 3100 fps at 5 yds.

Is the picture showing the entrance side or exit side from the high shoulder shot RC?

Congrats on the buck.. Looks like a good freezer filler..

Just loaded up some for my 308 over Big Game powder. 48.5 grns at about 2650, should be perfect for deer, scary accurate

when i was in my 257 Roberts phase of life i shot 90gr. hpbt gamekings and it killed with authority! that was in my ruger m77...then tried them in a 15" encore handgun and had the same result...dead deer (and turkey)

I never had any issues with Sierra bullets on deer be it game kings or even match kings. I ran 100gr SPBT game kings and 100 gr match kings out of a 25-06 about fifteen years ago. Both were damn accurate and deadly on deer. Quite a few DRT's if I remember correctly.

I loaded some up for my buddy this year and he used 1 to take a nice buck. 1 shot 1 kill with good performance. Held together well and made 2 holes. Deer dropped in it's tracks. The bullet in question was the .277 130 gr. HPBT GK. 270 win...The 180gr. Winchester powerpoint (30-06) did more damage on my buck this year than the game king did. Both shots were about 85 yards..

BSA: are you sure? I know Sierra makes a 130gr SPBT GK and a 140GR HPBT GK in 277, but don't recall a 130gr HPBT.

i used them in my 270 but found they did more meat damage (bloodshot) than i liked. probably still have a box or two on the reloading bench.

The 165 gr HPBT in the 30 worked ok for me but I didn't shoot more than a couple of deer with them. I shot enough 120 gr HPBT Sierras on antelope and deer to learn they are great for double lung broad side shots, keep them in the ribs because if you don't they don't hold together busting bones and are damn hard on your eating meat. Magnum Man

MM: I'm so confused! Folks on here swear by the 85gr 6mm HPBTs and the 90gr 257 HPBTs for deer: great penetration, etc. Yet Sierra says they were designed as varmint bullets.

And then, Sierra says the 257, 120gr, is the toughest big game bullet they make in 257.

Weird...

Dang, you are right. These are the lead tipped BTSP. Sorry for the confusion. Well I was confused anyway