Glad you're happy, but I've seen several kinds of bullets drop 500-pound animals "in their tracks," and many of the bullets were far less than .375 in diameter and 250-270 grains in weight. In my experience dropping them right there depends more on bullet placement than the caliber, weight or make of bullet.
So here's a question: What's your definition of perfect bullet performance?
Definition? Maybe, more of an opinion, but any bullet that kills with boring regularity when well placed certainly qualifies. Add to that a bullet that is easy to get to shoot accurately, in (for me, at least) any caliber I have loaded it for, and the Barnes TSX/TTSX certainly qualifies.
As far as performance goes, the Barnes either expands and fully penetrates, or expands and ends up under the hide on the far side. Either way, expansion and penetration, in the same bullet, seems to me to be a good thing. Are there other bullets that qualify? Certainly. But, you started this thread re: recovery of TTSX bullets- I was just contributing.
