Seen at NRAAM: Sierra MatchKing-X (MKX) Bullets for Shooting and Hunting

People love shooting Sierra MatchKing bullets. Whether they roll their own or shoot the bullets loaded into cartridges from big name ammo makers, they know they’re shooting first rate, precise gun food. But lots of shooters then wonder if they can also use their favorite round to hunt. The answer Sierra has always given them is…no.

That’s because SMK bullets aren’t engineered to expand enough to use for hunting. That was behind Sierra’s latest round, the MatchKing-X. While its has virtually the same profile, Sierra makes the MKX with a thinner jacket mouth and nose along with using a softer lead core. While the MKX ballistic coefficient is virtually the same as traditional MatchKing, MKX rounds expand the way hunters need them to.

That means you can use MatchKing-X rounds to shoot for distance and precision the way you’ve used traditional MatchKing, but also use them to hunt.

MKX rounds will be available in Q2. And to start, they’ll only be available as components, so you’ll have to load your own cartridges to use them. Sierra tells us that many change later in the year, though.

One ammo maker where you’ll soon be able to find Sierra bullets is their sister company, Barnes. Barnes has traditionally been a loader of almost exclusively copper bullets in their ammunition, that’s about to change. Barnes is loading Sierra’s lead core Tipped GameKing bullets in their new Harvest Collection line of hunting ammunition. It will be competitively priced in will hit stores in April.