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A couple of years ago I had this very same conversation with the good folks at Sierra, at a function, about their Match King line. Turns out that they were getting hundreds of glowing reports about the MK performance on game, in various calibers but especially the 80 grain .224 bullet. Now the MK bullets are like just about all other paper punchers, thin shinned and not designed for penetration. Sierra, like all other mfgs., took the position that their match bullet was not designed for game and should not be used on game. However, the number of one shot, dead in their tracks, kills that were being reported, astounded them. What they found was, with a selected shot, in the hands of an experienced hunter and a good shot; the bullets perform a bullet's task, by producing dead game.
Now I am not advocating that everyone start using match bullets, far from it. I just think that an experienced shooter, knowing what he or she is doing, has the right, without condemnation, to use whatever bullet or caliber they choose.
The real problem with the use of a match type bullet comes when a hunter takes a shot that they should not have taken, regardless of bullet type.
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