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Are they old ones, not the present "Ballistic Silvertips"?
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JB they are the old ones. I didn't really need anymore 375 stuff but I'd dang near go to hell to try the stuff of yesteryear. I find going retro pretty interesting so I do when I can...mb
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
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I remember reading an article from Sheriff Jim Wilson, where he and one of the instructors from Gunsite, used that bullet with success. Can’t remember her name though.
Thanks, Tom
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" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
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I remember reading an article from Sheriff Jim Wilson, where he and one of the instructors from Gunsite, used that bullet with success. Can’t remember her name though.
Thanks, Tom That is Il Ling New. She hunted Buffalo with them and felt they hit harder out of the 375 than the 300 or 270 grain bullets (as I remember her saying it)
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Is there any data on the 250 TTSX bullets shot into buffalo. I am aware the of the general affection for the 270s for this purpose, but is there any data from actual hunting with the 250s?
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JB they are the old ones. I didn't really need anymore 375 stuff but I'd dang near go to hell to try the stuff of yesteryear. I find going retro pretty interesting so I do when I can...mb The original Silvertips were all over the place as far as expansion/penetration. Once had a 150-grain from a .30-06 factory load come apart on the shoulder joint of a forkhorn mule deer buck, the range about 200 yards. The core disintegrated, and the jacket came to rest on the ribs behind the joint. Luckily, I was able to track the buck down after half a mile, and put another in the ribs behind the shoulder, which penetrated and killed it. On the other hand a friend killed a pile of elk with a particular lot of 130-grainers from his .270 Winchester. The ones he recovered from under the hide on that far side (and he had quite a few) were all perfectly "mushroomed." A good friend, the late Walter White, killed one of the biggest brown bears listed in B&C on Kodiak Island, using his pre-'64 Model 70 .375 H&H and 300-grain Silvertips. The bear was on the other side of the Zachar River, and it was a wet day--as so many are on Kodiak. The bullets mostly came apart on the bear's wet hair and hide and mostly failed to penetrate the chest. Walter didn't know exactly how many times he shot, but did remember reloading the magazine twice before one got inside the chest and killed the bear.
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I never knew this bullet existed. Might have to try it out on an 8" twist 375 Raptor. This might be my subsonic load!
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JB that is exactly what I wanted to know thank you. I am sure that I'll never get up there to try them out on bear but might shoot a deer or 2 with them..mb
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You're welcome!
Have mentioned this before, but the best "media" I've found for testing bullets that might be used on game larger than deer is a stack of dry newspaper. Over the last 30 years that's revealed flaws in a number of bullets--and also shown where the "same" bullets were improved by the company.
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Just had a box of the 350 gr. TSX drop in my lap. Gonna load them in a standard twist H&H to ~2,300 fps using Big Game and see what gives.
Never used them before while hunting, and I don't really expect to as well. In the H&H I've relied on the 300 grain A-Frames and the 350 grain Weldcore.
I wonder what the minimum recommended impact velocity is with these? I'll have to ping Barnes about that in a couple days.
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