Customer Reviews for HORNADY Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
HORNADY Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
Strike faster, farther and harder with the velocity increase this ammo delivers. By squeezing up to an extra 200 fps from every Superformance caliber with innovative propellants, Hornady flattens trajectory, reduces wind drift and delivers more smack-down energy on target – all with no increase in recoil or muzzleblast. Super-Shock Tip (SST) teams with a secant ogive profile to create a streamlined bullet that slices through the air to deliver amazing accuracy. An Interlock® ring ensures the bullet's core and match-grade jacket hold together for outstanding controlled expansion. Supercharge your rifle’s performance while enjoying the superior accuracy you expect from Hornady. Per 20.
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93 out of 112(83%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
Review 21 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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DBEDNAR40
Location:Bridgeport WV
Age:36-45
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Very Happy.
Date:November 11, 2010
I shot the 95gr SST today in my model 7- 243 and at 100yds you could have covered all 4 shots with a dime. I was really impressed and satisifed with the results. Sighted in very easy.
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Review 22 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Mondo104
Location:Wisconsin
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Tremendous accuracy
Date:November 14, 2010
I have been using Hornady Light Mag 150 gr SST for the last 10 years in my Browning a-Bolt .308. I was apprehensive when I found the Light Mags had been discontinued in favor of the Superformance round. I had been used to .7- groups at 100 yds. And 2- groups at 200. This stuff is even more accurate. For factory ammo I am amazed with .5-@100 and1.5@200. Another skeptic converted! Wishing everyone a safe and successful hunting season!
Mike
Mike
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Review 23 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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deerhunter721270
Location:Denton, TX
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
My .270 Didn't Like It
Date:November 17, 2010
First of all, I am not going to say that this is bad ammo like many people do just because it didn't shoot well in a particular gun. In fact I am quite sure that it is great ammo, but my Remington Model 721 didn't shoot them well. The groups were terrible. Bullet holes were 4" apart with a cold barrel. I don't know if my barrel doesnt like 140 gr.SST's..or if the velocity is just too much. Barrels have velocity nodes at which certain projectiles at certain velocities shoot the best groups. It has to do with barrel vibrations. The 721 has a 24" barrel. If it had a 22" barrel It might have shot cloverleafs, who knows? I am quite disappointed they didn't perform like I hoped, but hey..thats life, and I am hopeful that I will find a good 140 gr. load that performs well. Maybe I will try the Hornady custom 140gr BTSP. I am just hoping my barrel likes 140 grain bullets. But if not, so be it. 130 grain bullets made the .270 what it is anyways. Jack O'connor would have agreed.
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Review 24 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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TheDave32
Location:North Carolina
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Tremendous Knockdown Power
Date:November 18, 2010
I am very pleased with this ammo. I have a shot 2 mature bucks(8 and 9 pointers) and neither has taken another step. I am shootin the 139 grain SST in my 7mag. It also groups an inch or less in my gun consistently.
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Review 25 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Oostin
Location:Petaluma, CA
Age:25 and under
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? No
Garbage
Date:November 21, 2010
I have always found that you have to find the ammo that your gun likes best. I am shooting a Mossberg 4x4 7mm mag and this stuff was squirlier than a caffinated ground hog. with other ammo's I was shooting sub moa at 100 yards all day but with this ammo I was lucky to have a 4'' grouping!
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Review 26 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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RFal53
Location:NY
Age:25 and under
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Hard Hitting
Date:November 21, 2010
Shooting 25-06 117 SST. At 80 yds dropped a buck in his tracks.
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Review 27 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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billygoatslair
Location:O'Neill, NE
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Very Satisfied
Date:November 21, 2010
Nebraska held a special doe season this October so I decided to try out some new ammo. I do ALOT of shooting so I like trying new ammo. I shoot a Ruger M77 Hawkeye in 25-06. Previous to this I like the winchester silvertip ballistic tip in 115gr. The new 117gr. SST superformance are the most accurate round i have ever shot through this particular gun. Needless to say I shot twelve doe in October and another big mature buck in November. Only two of those doe ran on me and it was only a few yards. Devastation is the keyword. These bullets performed very well and penetration was not an issue. I shot the buck at 236 yds and the bullet passed through both shoulders leaving an exit hole the size of a baseball. I am very happy with these and highly recommend the Superformance ammo.
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Review 28 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Mick55
Location:Kansas City,KS
Age:46-55
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Excellent Ammo
Date:November 25, 2010
shot two mature doe's with the 130gr SST out of my 270win both one shot kills no tracking dropped where they stood. I have used hornady ammo for thirty+ years with great results. Shoots very tight groups in my Winchester model 70.
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Review 29 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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CrazyBob
Location:California
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? No
7mm Remington Mag failed on elk
Date:November 30, 2010
Used the 139 grain 7 Rem Mag SST on Cow Elk. Do not try this. The bullets fragment completely and do not penetrate well. Was lucky to recover this animal, and when we found her wounded, at 20 yards could not kill her with a neck shot. Finally put one through the shoulder and this ended her. We recovered only small bits of the bullets. This round is not fair to the game.
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Review 30 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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bossman25
Location:TX
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Great Round
Date:December 7, 2010
I purchased these bullets for my .270 and my Ruger m77 30-06. 140 grain for the .270 and 150 for the 06. Both shot really good groups. I shot a little buck with my .270 running quartering away at around 80yds. Didn’t lead him enough and shot him in the hind quarter. The round went all the way through the hind quarter up in the chest cavity and into the deer’s lungs. The 140 grain SST turned a bad shot into a great shot! The deer just fell over and never flinched! I will be sticking with the 140 grain SST!!
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Review 31 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Beardedlady
Location:Wausau, WI
Age:25 and under
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Ideal Ammo
Date:December 8, 2010
So I did a bit of modifying to my Ruger M77 .30-06; floated the barrel and glass bedded the stock. With it I needed premium ammunition, and I found it. At the range I was sinking three rounds into quarter sized groupings at 100 yards. I shot my first trophy buck this season at 120 yds; he fell flat on the ground...no tracking needed!
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Review 32 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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fishing4sanity
Location:Prosser, Washington
Would you recommend this product to a friend? No
Mixed Results - Use Cautiously
Date:December 17, 2010
Mixed results - two of my sons used this ammo in new .30-06's. In the Remington 700 it grouped very well and had no trouble of any kind, and he had a one-shot kill on an elk at 309 yards, for this gun I'd give the ammo 5 stars. In the Savage model 116 it grouped very well, but my son would occasionally have trouble extracting the spent casing (I should have listened to him and switched ammo earlier), then with less than two days before our elk hunt he had three casings that took two hands to pull the bolt back, on his last shot the case expansion was so bad that even with two hands I couldn’t pull the bolt back. We switched ammo and had to start over. For the Savage I'd give the ammo 1 star. Conclusion - test the ammo in your particular gun, it groups well, the bullet performs very well, but the expansion problems scare me to the point that even on the Remington 700 we'll switch to Hornady Custom.
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Review 33 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Rope57
Location:Washington State
Age:46-55
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Sweet Shooting
Date:December 25, 2010
October 10, 2010 Gillette, Wyoming. I am shooting a Ruger M77 RH in .270, after a long stalk, I was able to get a shot, the shot was 250 yards and the Hornady Superformance .270 Win. worked great! The bullet hit just behind the left shoulder and hit the right shoulder joint before exiting. This buck only took about four steps before dropping to the ground. This was my first antelope hunt and I was shooting the Superformance .270 Win. 130 gr. SST bullet.
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Review 34 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Taopi
Location:Des Moines, Iowa
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Loaded Hot
Date:December 28, 2010
Bought a Box of 30-06 off the shelf at Cabelas, I can say they are accurate in my Savage 116, however watch your cases close they are loaded hot and could cause a problem, after firing two shot groups of three I checked the cases and found flat primers and craeters around the primer strike, measured case base and it measured .005 expansion. This is not a good situation. Just be watchfull of your cases for signs of trouble, be safe. May work fine in your rifle but not a good cartage in my Savage.
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Review 35 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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Anonymous
Location:Saratoga Springs, UT
Age:25 and under
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Great for tough shots!
Date:December 29, 2010
I just started using this load this season, and it shoots amazing. I use a 165gr .308 load on my tikka t3, and i've been making the farthest shots i've ever shot in a tighter grouping than anything else i have tried. I get about 150fps more than I would out of my federal loads, and I don't have to sacrifice accuracy for it.
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Review 36 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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MK
Location:SPRINGFIELD, MO
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
PA. DEER HUNT
Date:January 20, 2011
I live in MO., went to PA. to hunt with my brothers. I was hunting with Remington 700 ADL 30-06 165 gr. SST. I shot a buck at 60 yds he went 75 yds and collasped. My hunting parntners notice that a tree was shot in the line of my deer. They ask if I hit deer first or tree. Upon investigation I had hit a 3 inch birch tree dead center first. Would I use or recommend this ammo again most certainly. Core- lok ammo would not have pentrated tree let alone kill the deer
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Review 37 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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joeed
Location:New Braunfels, Texas
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Hornady Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
Date:February 5, 2011
I tried Superformance ammo this deer season for the first time. I used the 165 gr. 30.06 in my Tikka T3 lite. I was concerned about some of the reviews I read about.....not performing well on close shots , breaking up and no penetration. The first deer I took was a large doe at about 65 yards. One shot and dropped in her where she stood....no tracking. The bullet passed completely through leaving a hole about the size of a ping-pong ball on the exit. The next morning I shot a 8 pt. buck from about 70 yards and had the same results. Dead where he stood. I had complete pass through and a similar exit hole. I had no extraction problems, great accuracy and one shot kills. This is the type of performance I have had from Hornady for the last 10 years. Thanks.
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Review 38 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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460wby
Location:Bryan, Texas
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
338 win mag
Date:February 18, 2011
I am shooting this ammo through a Ruger 338 win mag. I am having trouble with the 200 grain SST load, it fragments upon impact. I have shot several 200lbs hogs out to 200 yds with this stuff. it knocks them down then the hogs get back up and run. After a follow up shot or three I can get them killed. Upon processing the hogs i have noticed the penitration is marginal and the bullets are acting like a varmint round. I have never had a penetration problem out of the 338 win mag before. I would like to say that this ammo is very accurate sub MOA . I have a box oof the 225 grain SST ammo i will try next.
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Review 39 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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cuby
Location:St. George, UT
Age:26-35
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Great Performance for me
Date:February 24, 2011
I have used this product for a year now with excellent performance out of my TC Weathershield ICON .30 t/c! I have no other choice for ammo in this chambering and no need for anything different.
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Review 40 for Hornady® Superformance™ SST Rifle Ammo
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rebaby
Location:WV
Age:36-45
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Biggest buck
Date:February 24, 2011
I would recommend this round for whitetail hunting.
I used it in my Thompson Oncore to make a 374 yard shot on a giant buck in December of '10. It was 18 degrees, and I held on the buck, and hit where my crosshairs were. So if you want to score big on big bucks I recommend the Hornady SST in 165 grain.
I used it in my Thompson Oncore to make a 374 yard shot on a giant buck in December of '10. It was 18 degrees, and I held on the buck, and hit where my crosshairs were. So if you want to score big on big bucks I recommend the Hornady SST in 165 grain.
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