Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Sellier & Bellot SPCE

How do the SPCEs perform on small Texas deer or hogs (7x57 173 grain)?

Not well at all on Texas animals, but on California animals they have performed well for me.

they work good on the deer i have killed from SC to AR.
THE 7X64 DROPS EM LIKE BRICKS.
Nice clean hole. the ridge works like a charm to cut hair. thats why they were designed.

Deadly on the deer I have shot in WV.

So nobody has experience on Texas deer?

Seriously, thanks for the testimonials.

i dont think wearing ear tags and being bottle fed makes them any harder to kill.

Maybe not, but corn fat might.

I guess I'm a little concerned that such a small bodied animal and a heavy stout bullet will cause failure to expand.

dont sweat it. i killed a doe in Arkansas 2 years ago and it busted her down hard. solid

I bought 4 boxes on a sale from Midsouth several years ago. They killed Texas deer and a couple of hogs just fine. This in my 19 inch barreled 7x57, the 173 SPCE. Accuracy was a bit under 2 inches in my rifle at 100 yards. The brass is designed European style with the narrow and not so deep extractor groove which did not fit my shellholder all that well.

This is how they work on Saskatchewan Whitetails

7x57R at 210 steps. Complete penetration, heart shot. Deer ran about 20 yds. Expansion seemed rapid. Since then I have come to the conclusion that these are good deer bullets, but far too fragile for bigger game. Bullets shot into snow last winter shed their cores, I found many behind my target backstop this spring that were separate core and jacket, with only the very front expanded.
In my Merkel they shoot good, but I was surprised at how fragile they are.

they are designed, primarily, for roe deer. they should work great on TX whitetails.

They shoot very well in my Ruger #1 (and oddly to the same POA as my 140grn Hornady loads). Damn, that clean hole with no fludgies on the back is kinda spooky.

Used the S&B 173 gr. SPCE at about 80 yd for this wolf a couple weeks ago. Perfect round hole in, through the ribs broadside. The hole out certainly was bigger, but not extreme and the hide was not damaged much. Wolf dropped at the shot and didn't take another step. It weighed exactly 100 lbs, about what I'd expect many of your Texas deer would weigh.