I loaded some last year and used them to bag a 165" whitetail and a cow elk,
both under 150 yards. I was NOT impressed. After years of shooting partitions or RN bullets and knocking them in the dirt. These bullets didn't work at the speed I was pushing them out of my 308. On both occassions was a nice tracking job. I would deffinitly try for the center of the shoulder and not try to conserve the meat when running the SST.