Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Two Tipped TSX's recovered in a row

I shot a large bodied whitetail buck last week using a 120 TTSX out of my 7-08 at around 2950 fps MV. The buck was feeding in a wheat field at roughly 250 yards and ever so slightly quartering towards. As the shot broke, he took an additional step towards me making it even more of a quartering shot. He bolted with tail down and I heard the audible thump of a hit. As I worked the bolt, I was preparing to shoot again while he was running. As I got him back in the scope, he took the fatal nose dive and did a big summersault just at the edge of the field. He had probably ran about 100 yards. Once I stepped up to him, I was surprised to see the shot was much further back than anticipated. The bullet clipped the right lung and absolutely blew apart his liver exiting out the other side. I was very happy with him dropping so quickly with a marginal shot.

I killed two cow elk earlier this year with this same combination. One cow staggered maybe 5 yards and the other made it 20-25 yards, both shot perfectly thru the lungs.

If you like massive internal damage, take a look at the CEB bullets in the Raptor lines. I shot a few whitetails and a blue wildebeest over the past few years out of my 300 Win Mag and the 145 gr ESP Raptor. If you like soup for internal organs, this is the bullet for you. I had one doe make it maybe 50 yards before piling up with a shot too low and the rest were DRT or within 10 yards of the shot. The wildebeest made it probably 30 yards from the shot before piling up to a quartering away shot placed on the crease 1/3rd the way up. The skinner commented that the bullet was too messy. I asked him why and he said too much blood when gutting. I wasn't present when the skinning and gutting took place.