Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
I had a bit of a problem twice from the SST's blowing up on close range shoulder shots on hogs. BUT, in all fairness, I load pretty dang hot and with a 28" barrel I get some pretty sporty MV out of my MLer. It takes a dang tough bullet to stand up to my speeds at under 20 yards on shoulder bone. I had the same problem with them from my 7mm-08 on whitetail as well. It's why I switched to Interbonds and Interlocks. The SST's always flew exceptionally well and I never had problems with accuracy from them but I tend to get close with all my rifles so I have to use a pretty tough bullet.
I use the 225 SST or FlexTip on the 460. I took a buck 2 yrs ago with it that I shot at 60yds almost facing me. I shot him on the right side of the brisket and came out the center of his off side ribs. Stood him up like the Busch commercial Stallion, threw his head all the way back and flopped down on his right side. Never to twitch, kick or move again. Opened him up later and found out that I blew 5 inches of brisket out and found bone frag's in his right shoulder area!!! Hydraulic distention from his shoulder to nearly his hip on exit side!! EVERYTHING in his upper chest area poured out when I opened him. No knife work up there needed!!!! Still came out with a hole as big as my thumb. I guess his brisket really opened that Felx-Tip up. Pushing that 225grn round in the 2175fps area with an 8-3/8ths barrel over Rel15 powder or H110.