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Tlewis81

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Any expierences with them at all? I wanna try some i was looking at the lrx or the ttsx just looking for something new i shoot 270 and would use for deer
 
I've heard lots of good things about them especially weight retention. I'm going to be using the ttsx in my 257 wby mag and 25-06. One of the main reasons for using it in the 257 wby is the speed of it and I don't want it to fragment on close shots.
 
Youtube videos are really nice of em if u want the best of penetration and expansion...gonna order me some if my local shop doesnt have the ones i want
 
If you're gonna hunt with them go TTSX. It doesn't hurt to drop down to a lighter bullet than you normally use since they all pretty much retain 100% of their weight after impact and will penetrate much deeper than traditional bullets. They are also longer at the same weight.

They need greater impact speeds in order to expand. Most bullets work well enough at 1800fps, Copper bullets 308 or smaller really need 2000fps and 2200 is better. The 95 and 110 gr copper bullets driven loaded fast are more than adequate for deer. The 130's should be considered moose or elk bullets.
 
I've had very good luck with Barnes bullets, I've used TSX, TTSX, and LRX's. My experience is from 3 different hunters shooting 5 different cartridges ranging from 243 Winchester to 7mm Rem Mag. As stated above move down in weight, speed is your friend with them, and use ballistic charts to know at what distance your bullet is going to be effective to. I have found all three variants to be accurate and work as advertised (high weight retention and deep penetrating).
 
I use the TTSX exclusively for hunting deer. They're not "match grade" accuracy but consistently around 1" at 100, which is plenty good for hunting.

Performance wise, they are spectacular. One example, we had an 80gr from a .243Win penetrate an adult whitetail buck diagonally, through the right rear hip, right on the joint, all the way to the left shoulder. It was (obviously) not a great shot and one the shooter admitted shouldn't have been taken but it surely was effective. None other have ever stayed in the animal, at any range, from any angle.
 
Those Barnes bullet are excellent and the wound is clean and not blood clotted like ordinary bullets. More meat for the pot. You will probably not recover the bullets since they usually run right through giving you 2 exit holes which is good for bleeding.
 
Barnes Bullets

Have used Barnes for many years especially for large boar using a single shot Contender in 7X30 Waters.

Never required a second shot with TTSX 130gr.

A bonus is the 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards.

Well worth the extra money.
 
Excellent terminal performance on game out of rifles. The handgun bullets sometimes have trouble fully expanding because of the difficulty of getting solid Copper to expand at handgun velocities.
 
I keep trying to avoid them because of the cost, but so far my best groups with .243 and .338 WM are Barnes'. Both are <1", 80 and 210 TTSX respectively. Have yet to put one through a critter, but I hear only good things about terminal performance.
 
My 30-06 dearly loves them. I forget the exact powder charge, but IMR4895 has a 150 gr TTSX pushing 3000 fps. Really accurate, too. The deer just can't seem to hold them.
 
Don't really care for them, even thought I own several boxes of 3006 and 3030 TSX, bought them cheap. I just like conventional cup and core or bonded bullets more. I would probably use them if I were going to hunt something large at close range only so the bullet would open up, as they do need some velocity behind them. Deer are not hard to kill. Every deer I've ever killed went down with one shot, all were pass thru shots, most dropped on the spot, some went no more than 20 yards, the farthest about 40. Why spend more money when you don't have to, only to get the same result. Shot placement is what is important.
 
Why spend more money when you don't have to, only to get the same result. Shot placement is what is important.
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Piece of mind Lordvader, piece of mind. When I was a young man I shot an antelope standing broadside in the shoulder using my 30-06 and 180 grn Speer cup and cores, distance was 150 yards. The bullet entered, broke the shoulder bone, turn 90 degrees and exited downward, kicking dust up at the animals hoof. I was able to track that animal down and dispatch it and I promised myself from that point on I would not settle for good enough ever again, that that feeling you get when you wound something, it's worth a few more dollars to not have that again.
 
Barnes bullets are premium bullets and have been used for along time .I now do all hunting with them for both rifle and revolver .Expensive ?One round is all I normally need .Use other bullets for practice if you like. Accurate and consistant performance .:)
 
vader, my mantra here has been IT'S CHEAP! Suspicious powder? half a can from a neighbor's garage that has probably been there for 20 years? what's it worth? It needs to be thrown away.

Same thing goes for buying ammo. Anyone who carries turkish steel ammo in his CCW is being a little nuts, ammo is cheap, and dying isn't exactly free. When a person pays a bare, scrawny minimum of $50 or so just for a license and a tag, there are two choices. Spend the bare minimum for equipment, or buy a little extra certainty that the shot will count. I've not seen 30-06 for much less than $1 a round, and or only $35-45 a box, give or take, a person can carry nearly any of the top rounds into the field.

In the day to day life, yep, an extra $20 buying super premium ammo sounds bad, but spending that box and bringing home a deer is priceless.
 
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