30/06 165s

[dakotah]

If you take a 30-30 bullet made by any manufacturer and load it to 30-06 velocities. It becaomes a bullet that is virtually useless for deer, while it may be a perfectly good bullet at 30-30 velocities.

In a hunting condition -- that I have never had and never will -- shooting at a deer strolling by while I am sitting on my duff in a tree stand almost any bullet will do. A .22 rimfire is a deer killer in the right circumstances.

In hunting in the open spaces such as were I normally hunt a bullet that works only in a certain velocity range just is a very poor choice.

Sure, getting a deer out of bed and drilling it before it stretches is fine but to rely on a bullet, while good for that style of shooting, for a hurried shot at close range that is not my choice. I will blast those bullet designs all day long.

So a 35 rem will factory loads is an excellent deer killer when used in a tree stand or were shots never exceed a certain yardage. Try a 35 Remington in the Rockies for Mule Deer. If you do you a re limiting yourself needlessly and perhaps one out of twently otherwise possible shots with a 300 Win Mag is possible with that 35 Rem. Nothing wrong with the 35 Rem in a certain hunting condition.

This whole thread reminds me of a guy who uses 125 grain bullets in his 300 Weatherby and then he felt he needed a faster bullet and went to a 30-378 and used his 125 grain standard (not premium) bullet. He claimed that was the best deer killer ever. He wounded a few but when he killed one it went down like lightning. That thought pattern is along the same lines of what I have seen with the Sierra bullets. That is -- they are more fragile than many - perhaps similar to the early Nosler Ballistic Tips. If a Sierra bullet is loaded right or using a heavier bullet than in other manufacturers or using a heavier caliber than with other manufacturers or if hunting where you know youe shooting is at long enough range were the bullet has slowed down then OK.

Recommending a bullet for deer hunting without stating conditions is as bad as lamb-blasting the bullet for being unreliable without conditions. Hunting deer in Alabama is not the same as hunting deer in Wyoming.