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Hornady 250gr GMXAverage Penetration (inches): 19.5 Average Weight Retained (grain): 247.4 Average Weight Retained (%): 98.9 Average Expansion (inches): 0.753 Note: If this was a beauty contest, the GMX would win for sure. Very impressed with this bullet. I was surprised that it expanded deeper in its hollow point than the TTSX since the TTSX is supposed to expand to lower velocity. I haven't shot any game animal with anything by Barnes bullets in over 10 years but I might have to try the GMX next year! Nosler 260gr PartitionAverage Penetration (inches): 17.83 Average Weight Retained (grain): 207.3 Average Weight Retained (%): 79.7 Average Expansion (inches): 0.690 Note: Typical Partition performance. The top lead portions are just sitting on top of those bullets, they are no longer attached. I like the looks of the Hornady GMX, even though I have lots of 260gr. Nosler partitions loaded up. I might just have to give those GMX pills a try too... Thanks for posting your results.
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I like the 260gr partition thats what i shoot in mine
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The 260gr accubonds shoot good in my xcr. I'm glad to see they are on par performance wise as the partition. I've had less than stellar results with 200gr 8mm accubonds vs partitions, so I've been leery. Piqued my interest in the GMX too. Thanks for the effort!
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Pretty much all of the bullets performed well. I like the 235 gr Speer in particular, wish I would have shot a black bear with them before my 375 Ruger went down the road. I really liked the 260 gr Accubond on both grizzly and black bear. The 250 gr GMX does look very good and looks like a top choice. Thanks for posting your results. As for only shooting Barnes for the last 10 years, variety is the spice of life they say your test shows lots of great bullets to choose from.
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Great report; thanks for lugging all that wet newsprint around! I've wanted to load up the 250 grain Barnes TTSX and GMXs for a while now. Would you mind sharing your load for those two? Just curious what is working for you.
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Thanks for all the work and posting. This info will be fun for years.
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My hunting load in my .375 Ruger is 83.5hr of H4350 behind a 250gr TTSX. Shot my last two moose with that load without any complaints. That being said, if I see a couple boxes of 250gr GMX a the local gun store, they are coming home with me. The loads used in the test were just starting loads of whatever suitable powder I had.
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Thank you for all the work.
I was planning on using the 250gr GMX in my new 375 H&H for an upcoming African PG hunt. If I cannot get those to work, the 250gr TTSX will be up next.
This test just helps confirm my choice.
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Sure looks like lots of great 375 bullets around today. Excellent thread and thanks to Steve for sharing all this. Nice!
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Here's a couple more pics and thoughts... 300 Partition. 375 H&H, 50 yards to so, moose shoulders, large bull; including some of the scapula 235 TSX. 375-350 Rem Mag, left, 150 yards medium bull moose shoulders, no bone. right, 50 yards, water jugs 235 Speer Hot-Cors into a dirt bank rather heavy on pea gravel. 375 H&H. These little dudes rather surprised me with their integrity. I've seen the Interlocked RN bullets used on and stopped by seals. They're lethal, for sure, but I'd not want to use them for heavy bone encounters. The 250 GMX seconds I got from Midway did not fare well at all in the testing I did on them. Their expansion was very minimal. I was going to get rid of them, but then realized that they are probably great for a whale hunting bullet where the bullet sometimes encounter water before it hits hide. They make good barter material for one of my friends who does a lot of favors for me - and he's a big-time whale hunter.
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What was the impact velocity of the 250 GMX....more or less?
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Thanks. As you said, it's not meat or bone but it does allow comparison between bullets.
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Sure looks like lots of great 375 bullets around today. Excellent thread and thanks to Steve for sharing all this. Nice! Hey Bob, it would be interesting to see how the old 275gr. BBC (Bitteroots) did against these newer bullets..
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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jwall already very briefly mentioned one problem with this test, but without a pertinent detail about newspaper tests. Wet newspaper is very kind to bullets, which is why so many bullet companies used it for years, especially if they wanted a nicely mushroomed bullet to pose for a photo.
Dry newspaper, on the other hand, is hard on bullets, more like hitting heavy bone. I've tested most of the same bullets used in this test (though not all were .375's) in dry newspaper. Most "premioums" performed very much the same as they did in this test, but the non-premiums did not.
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Put a cow knuckle after for inches of wet paper follower by more wet paper. Does bad things to bullets....
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Probably somewhere between 2500-2600fps.
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jwall already very briefly mentioned one problem with this test, but without a pertinent detail about newspaper tests. Wet newspaper is very kind to bullets, which is why so many bullet companies used it for years, especially if they wanted a nicely mushroomed bullet to pose for a photo.
Dry newspaper, on the other hand, is hard on bullets, more like hitting heavy bone. I've tested most of the same bullets used in this test (though not all were .375's) in dry newspaper. Most "premioums" performed very much the same as they did in this test, but the non-premiums did not. That was covered in my disclaimer in the first post: "Disclaimer: I know wet newspaper does not give identical result to flesh and bones, blah, blah, blah...."
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Probably somewhere between 2500-2600fps. Thank you sir!
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Sure looks like lots of great 375 bullets around today. Excellent thread and thanks to Steve for sharing all this. Nice! Hey Bob, it would be interesting to see how the old 275gr. BBC (Bitteroots) did against these newer bullets.. http://forum.nosler.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=28342
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