Sako ammunition .308” WIN 150 grain

[WalkedUp]

Sako Super Hammerhead group very nicely from my Tikka T3, .308” WIN 150grain. These come in fetching blue boxes. Unfortunately I shoot with gay abandon and abruptly my supply has run out. I cannot find any more local stockists of these cartridges.



Reluctantly I bought a box of the red Sako Gamehead, again 308” WIN 150grain, to test out for zero. Hoping that it would be a different branding if the same cartridge. The product code isn’t stated visibly on the packaging and I didn’t think to check BC. Anyway, they’re completely different and not in a good way. I do not like exposed soft point bullets, to me they always look like the old broken pencils that are found when you clear out a miscellaneous toy box.



I am onto my last box of the blues but fortunately my friend has very generously offered me three boxes of the yellow Sako Super Hammerhead. Now, I know that green = full copper none toxic in Sako’s system. But what do the other colours denote? These have the same product code as my beloved blues, 235A, so I expect it is just old branding.



Why are the red ones now what everyone seems to stock? Does anyone know if any RFD is stocking the blues in the north west?



I know the long term answer is to start reloading and control my own supply. But I would like to know why availability is so patchy out there currently.

 

[BigT]

Gamehead is a conventional soft point

Hammerhead is a bonded soft point

Supper hammerhead is a Hammerhead with a boat tail

With the current colour coding green is lead free, blue is controlled expansion and red fast expansion. Yellow ones would be before the colour coding change.

 

[WalkedUp]

Thank you, that makes sense. Especially looking at the antler indicator on the packaging bottom left.

 

[SikaSeeker]

I’ve been using the super hammerheads this season in my tikka .308, very nice grouping and very good on the fallow.

 

[Kimber]

interesting , the yellow vs blue box of 308 super hammerheads in the 150 grain .
If you check the blue box , newer stock , the bc is .273
the yellow box , older , the bc is .410
That's a huge diff . Which one is correct . The Sako site lists them now , as .273
If anyone knows or a source to find out would be nice

 

[BigT]

interesting , the yellow vs blue box of 308 super hammerheads in the 150 grain .
If you check the blue box , newer stock , the bc is .273
the yellow box , older , the bc is .410
That's a huge diff . Which one is correct . The Sako site lists them now , as .273
If anyone knows or a source to find out would be nice

.273 sounds a lot more realistic considering the bullets shape.

 

[SikaSeeker]

Here’s one that got stuck behind the skin of a pricket. He moved as I pulled the trigger, bullet ran down its neck a stopped in its shoulder. Weighted it, it lost 3 grains.

 

[WalkedUp]

Interestingly at 100m the non bonded soft point Sako 150 grain bullets have the same point of impact as the bonded 150g flat nose, tested tonight.