First post - Love the site.
Taking my lead from an old federal loading now no longer in production I made the following load:
Barnes 110 grain TTSX flat base
Varget 58.5 grains
Lapua brass
Federal 210M primers
COAL 3.190 (measured from the federal commercial load)
Groups measured 0.4 inches out of a Browning Safari grade (three shots at 100 yards)
Velocity (LabRadar) = 3404 fps
Responsible for two whitetail does around 160 yards. Neither took a step.
Recoil is like a 7mm-08 reduced recoil load - Really fun to shoot. Just clean your barrel often.
Welcome Snakeskin!!! I will be trying out a very similar load to this and anticipate the good results you have seen. I really like sending the lighter per caliber TSX bullets as fast as possible. They are very effective with great penetration and expansion.
