Originally Posted by JGRaider
... So in my feeble mind I'm wondering if I'd like it just as much to have a mono punch through both sides, leave a blood trail, follow it 50-100 yards and find it dead. Fall over dead, I can see it laying there dead, or double punch and watch it stumble bumble or even trot off and die but I've got a blood trail?

Let me ask you TTSX guys this........In open country hunting where shots can be longer...300-500 yards....How much confidence do ya'll have that these TTSX will open up, expand like a TTSX is supposed to expand, and it will be business as usual on the receiving end?
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We've been using MRX and TTSX on game for several years now, from antelope to elk. This includes 100g TTSX in my .257 Roberts, .308" 168g TTSX in a variety of .308 Win and .30-06 rifles and 180g MRX in my .300WM. I had an antelope go about 25 yards but that was the longest by far. Most game has dropped where it stood or taken no more than a step or two. So far we have nothing but exit holes.

Last fall I took a mulie buck at under 50 yards with the .300WM and a 180g MRX launched at 3033fps. The MRX exited on a quartering shot and the buck took about 3-4 steps. The next day I used the same load to take a cow elk at 399 yards. It was a broadside shot. The cow did a 180 turn, took a couple steps then turned 90 to head uphill. She made it another couple steps before collapsing. She's inside the yellow circle in the pic below.

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In 2010 I drove a 168g TTSX lengthwise though a mulie doe. Not sure what the range was but believe it to be 350 or so. (Damn POS Leupold RX IV rangefinder wouldn't take a reading. Again.)

Never could bring myself to use TSX on big game again after a disappointing test on a buck antelope. No problems at all with the tipped varieties, MRX and TTSX.

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