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I am starting to like this powder. I now have a 6.8 95 grain TTSX and a 223 62 grain TTSX load that I can live with using Benchmark.

Share the 6.8 load specs. Never ran BM with that pill.

Are you running adjustable gas on the 6.8? Reason I ask is I can set my block for heavier pills with slower powder and it still runs good with 95s and the slower powders such as 10x. If I try to step up to faster powders with the 95s, I have to readjust. Makes life simpler to stay slow on burn for function. Just happened that was where accuracy was anyway.

this barrel seems to shoot better with a lighter load, I shot 30 grains of BM behind the 95TTXS in once fired Hornady cases at 2.25 OAL this worked with my wilson combat barrel. I shot a deer last year with the 85TSX, the 95TTSX is a lot more accurate and I am hoping it will expand a bit better. Its nice to have a weather resistant 10 shot .250 savage! BCM lower with H buffer, what ever spring it came with, RRA Varmint trigger and BCM KMR rail, the upper is a 6.8SPC marked upper AH64 guy sold me.

Sounds like a sweet set-up. What speed did 30g provide?

IIRC I was around 2900avg with 29.5 of 10x in my 18" ARP. Accuracy was good, but ES was pretty wild. At 6.8 ranges it was plenty acceptable. I'm going to keep hunting with the 120SST for now until they prove to not perform. Never had the warm fuzzies on Barnes at moderate MVs, but sure have heard good reports on the 95TTSX. They claim is was made to open well at 6.8 speed.

Thinking hard on a 20"+ bbl for hunting. Prob a target crown. May just pull a 223 bbl and go for it to see if it works out. Have a few spare lowers as well, so may do a full build...

ES matters not at most normal distances. Most folks really should shoot larger test groups when close to the end load and throw the damn chrono's away.

The only thing that matters at anything under 500 or so yards is what the paper target tells you is going on.

True.

It doesn't bother me much on hunting rigs, but it is nice when things get really tight across the board.

Wasn't trying to be a smart azz which I"m accused of all the time.

Just pointing out that I've RARELY ever seen the lowest SD and ES get me excited when I went down to look at the targets.

And I"ve shot just a tiny bit of rounds at the 600 although fewer at 800-1000, but I still trust paper results WAY more than what the gadget says.

Having my own personal range to 600 out the back door likely helped me come to that conclusion as we were dinging LOTS of rounds a year and 600 out to 1000 became very important to our scores whether we would win or not.

Ok, off my soapbox.

PS I realize you have to have acceptable ES vs vertical as the distance increases... just that the numbers that used to excite me on the gadget, never worked out to match winning group sizes on the paper at that distance.

Want to see what the 95TTSX will do, no doubt the 85 grain TSX is a hard bullet and I was shooting it over a max load of 322 at 20 yard animal was not impressed with the exit hole, but it did kill the deer, so it did not fail.. . The 95TTSX has shot better so far and if something crosses my path this fall I will see how it works. I am a shoulder shooter so I like the barnes bullets. I really do hope that 95 TTSX bullet is made for the 6.8! I only have one testing media and its on 4 hooves when I test the bullet. You ever shoulder shoot with the 120 SST?

Interesting that in 6mm the 85 tsx, not the tipped one, from the 6.8 necked down and not at great speed at all, has always had an exit about double or a hair more than the bullet size for me. And I refuse to shoot bones.

Had a few blood trails that went almost 100 yards, but thats gravy anyway.

FWIW the 95 ttsx in .277 holds up just fine in the 270 win....

Only one shoulder shot thus far with the 120 SST. Impressive on this tiny 100lb local doe, but I'm still a rookie to the cart. Curious to see what it will do on our farm land bucks(240-260+).



The high shoulder worked splendidly as well: