I have tried SSTs in .25, .27 and .28 caliber rifles and found all of them too soft for anything but smaller deer and pronghorns. As DP4 said, they tend to fragment if you hit big bones. That said, I have never tried the 162. It may be stouter than the 117 grain .25s, the 130 grain .27s and the 139 grain .28s that I have tried.
