The Barnes X/TSX/TTSX line of bullets has grown over the past 20+ years from a curiosity to a force because people that hunt with them like the performance. I was an early adopter and they were a novelty the first time I hunted with them in RSA. Game went down fast and hard enough to turn the snickers and comments of derision from the smart-assed Afrikaner PH's into interest. A few years of seeing other clients in the field with those bullets turned the interest into admiration.

This is not to say that Nosler Partition isn't very good or that AB's will not perform, it is just that the Barnes seems to do the job as well or better every single time.


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