Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting A little input on deer bullets

I was wondering for use on whitetails out of a 300 WSM is there a better all around cup and core bullet then a 180 grain Sierra ProHunter? My T3 300wsm shoots absolute bug holes with them and anywhere from 65.8 to 67.5 grains of IMR-4831.

Thanks,
DTJ/Art

I use Gamekings in my 308. The hammer deer and pigs. I think you are fine.

That bullet/load combination sounds like it would be the bomb on whitetails. Good luck.

Love me some Sierras.

Use them within their means and you won't find a faster killing deer bullet. Yes they make a few messes and ruin a little dab of meat but kill like lightning.

Work fine on big game too, just select the appropriate bullet for the job at hand and they won't let you down. Don't select the right bullet and it's your fault not the bullets.

Thank you guys for your input. I shoot a lot of Sierra bullets as they are quite affordable and shoot very well out of my rifles.

I like Sierras in medium-weights in calibers of .277 and above. Always had good results on deer with various Gamekings in that category.

"Better" is something that needs to be defined. And you are the one that needs to define it.

A 300 mag is far more gun than you need to kill deer with and it buys you a LOT of leeway for killing deer. In other words, when using a big gun on deer, you can have a bullet come apart 75% and still get dramatic kills and never have a problem loosing any of them.
I never knock a big gun for hunting. I have done it a lot myself and I still do. I like guns, so I use what I feel like and I don't care if it's more powerful than I need. Neither do the deer or elk. I have killed a lot of deer and elk with 375H&H, 458s and 50-140 Sharps in the past, so I am not knocking the choice of guns. Heck, lots of hunters go to the field every year with 69-72 calibers (called 12 gauges) and no one seems to think it's bad for them to kill deer with such "cannons".

Neither do I knock the man that uses a 223 for deer if he has the correct bullets in his loads.
If your bullet will expand and exit, it matters very little what you kill the game with. A large hole that goes clear through works, no mater how you put it there. it's the man, not the tool, that is the important part.

If by "better' you mean less meat damage, I'd say yes, there are many that would be "better" for meat hunting.

Any of the expanding solids will do less meat damage and the heavier bullets do less damage then the light ones. If you get a narrower wound channel the deer may run 10-25 yards. But is that "worse'?

So let's define "Better" before we try to answer the question.

It's a 300 mag...and a deer....
Hit it in the vitals with anything and it'll be dead.