…The Box Says So…
 

Accurate Deadly dependable

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What’s not to like?

What would you estimate the impact velocity to have been?

That happens when you use match bullets for hunting, they tend to blow up.

Huh
 

Match?
Looks like it worked nicely!

The photo actually shows a positive result?

If all is true.

Thank you.

I've got a number of examples similar to this one that say otherwise...

Bull moose from a few weeks ago. 162AM. Penetrated onside humerus, ribs/lungs, found under the hide on the opposite side. The second shot hit ribs/lungs/heart, and exited.

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Killed that moose even with a melted tip?

haven't put one into freezer fair yet, but this coyote seen better days. hit a back leg at 450 m; caught up to him and put another one in while he was running away at 100m. not much gas money for this one.

Hey lots of guys use them, Hornady even says they are ok on thin skinned game such as deer. Lots of guys use them think they are great, lots of guys say they blow up and don't penetrate, say they are unpredictable and unreliable on anything bigger than coyotes and deer. People also hunt with sierra matchkings, which sierra say they don't recommend for hunting. Hunt with whatever you want but I would rather hunt with something made to hunt with than something made for shooting paper which can kill game in a pinch but wasn't really designed too.

Quote straight out of the Hornady manual:

"A-MAX bullets are generally for match shooting, with jackets drawn to less than .0005" concentricity and given Hornady's Ultra-Low Drag Tip. This bullet is also excellent for hunting thin-skinned game."

Like any bullet use your own disgression. Lots of guys using them at long range shooting where they expand well at low velocity way out there. Just don't be too surprised if they occasionally blow apart at high velocity close range shots and sometimes fail to penetrate well.

I know lots of guys that use the .284 bore, 162 gr a-max for deer in new Zealand, it works very well, at longer range and at reduced speed, but is very unpredictable and erratic above about 2800-2900fps,
I have shot about a dozen deer, and pigs with it myself, but am shooting a 7x57 so even at 50m likely not even at 2800fps,
It is however a very poor choice, for close range at magnum speed,(+3000fps) in that case, you would be better served, with a partion, or bonded bullet.
As with almost everything in life, things work much better, with the correct tools, matched for the job.

Every time I see somebody killing animals with AMAX bullets I smile. I've been hunting with them for a few years and am really impressed with them.

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This one is a 3112 fps launch, impact at 40 yards. You're looking at the exit...

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Port side blinker!

And drool.
Mustn't forget the drool.

R.

Wow.

R.

Who said it didn't exit?

Everyone, behold the display of an ego so fragile it would give GTR a run for his money! Seems like stew is the new purple Kool-Aid!

A.d.d.

A-max Deficit Disorder?

R.

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Accurate
Deadly
Dependable

Nobody, said didn't see an exit. Did it exit?

Have shot thousands of A-maxes in 7mm, .308, .224, .243, .264 more A-Maxes than most of you here have. Have over 500 162 A-maxes sitting on my bench right now along with others I buy them by the thousand lot. Lots of others who have real experience with this bullet shooting all kinds of game with it, only use it for long range with great success and won't use it at close range as it is to unpredictable.

I think most folks here know that .224 cal rifles are not legal for deer hunting in Alberta......duh.

It`s my opinion, Shoot whatever you want, most know there are better hunting bullets than the A-max. Didn't realize the Dinty Moore crowd would get their tutu`s so tangled up with their panties.:sHa_sarcasticlol:

That's s lot of wasted meat in above photos.

the partition i used this year made more of a mess than any of those unfortunately

Of course it exited

Then why not just say so, without pushing your own agenda? Post up some real experience?
Most folks do know it isn't legal to shoot a deer with a .224, but yet you suggested the deer posted was?
Funny the comment coming from you about crowds, tutu's and panties...:sHa_sarcasticlol:

R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

Perhaps your reading comprehension needs work. Didn't suggest it was shot with a .224 I said it looked like it was shot with one, I have lived in provinces where it is allowed and have seen a number of deer shot in the head with them that look much like the picture.Before you read more nonsense into what I just said read it again, it does not mean I recommend shooting big game with .224 varmint rifles or taking head shots.

Anyway I will graciously defer my meek experience and meagre knowledge to those vast esteemed books of knowledge like R-man and many others who bless this forum with their vast knowledge of things and facts that just aren't so. I'll demurely sit on the sidelines and watch with awe all the nonsense that some spew here... maybe I'll take my ball and go home, maybe I'll tell my mommy!!........:scared:
Or perhaps I don't give a care, find this amusing and will say whatever I say:sHa_shakeshout: lol:sHa_sarcasticlol: