Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting 25-06 & 100gr. TTSX's....Oh Boy!!

I know that the 85grain TSX in .243 at ~3200 doesn't lack for smack or penetration in the least. I bought a 25-06 when Barnes released the 80 grain TTSX just because that ought to be just one hell of a Bambi whacker. Now Barnes releases the TSX in a flat base .277 version that weighs 85 grains!

It doesn't get a whole lot better. I loaded TTSX 130's for a few guns last fall and they accounted for 6 one shot go nowhere kills, no misses. Out of an '06 at ~3150, or out of a .308 at ~2900 they were very accurate and we recovered no bullets. I couldn't bring myself to shoot one with the 300 WM and the 130s even though they were very accurate at ~3480 so I used a 150 Barnes on one out of it.

When I started loading back in the fifties we didn't have a lot of good bullets. We didn't have a lot of accurate bullets. We didn't have a lot of bullets that held together well at speed. Now, we have bullets that are very accurate, hold together unbelievably well at speed and even in very light weights have high enough BCs not to shed velocity at reasonable ranges. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am really looking forward to what a little competition among the bullet makers will do in the next few years.

Magnumb.....I too have been toying with the Barnes TSX bullets in the 100 grn weight! I must say they shoot very very well downrange onto our targets that were set up at 100 & 200 yards.

I am keeping my fingers crossed for one of he .338 calibers in the vault in 225 bullet weight. Also have a .300Ultra mag to work up loads for in the near future. I am impressed with the fact these bullets seem to not have a problem opeining up like past Barnes X or XLC bullets did a few years back.

I have been able to shoot .650 MOA at 100 yards off the bench with the one 25-06 caliber model 70 Winchester hunting rifle. The bigger test will be the Ruger model 77 with bull barrel in a 25-06 also. Hope all goes well.

Now Mr. Jordan Smith....YOU send me a PM and I'll get you some of those bullets Canuck!!!

........and what metals they'll be usin'!!

NRA - welcome to the 'Fire'...........BTW!!

FWIW - I found that I get +2.5 in. @ 100 yards, a hair over +3.0 inches at 200 and dead-on ZERO at 300 yards with the 25-06 movin' at the velocities I mentioned earlier (that .397 BC is impressive). My 'sight-height' is 1.7 (with this particular rifle/scope set-up whereas 1.5 in. is much more often the case), so that needs to be considered as well when runnin' the ballistics. This arrangement never took my trajectory higher than +3.5 in. at any range, which is what I personally shoot for.....pun intended. I proof all program ballistics of each cartridge I load for as it is the only way to either confirm their calculations or to discover discrepancies....IMHO. Not always do they stack up exactly spot-on, but with this particular load/cartridge, it came out as close to spot-on as any I've ever run in regards to what was to be expected.

I also shoot and load for a 300RUM and have done so since first introduced. I'm currently shooting 200gr. NP's, but will eventually move to either the 180gr. TSX's or TTSX's (I'LL see if one shoots better than the other). MY 300WSM's both shoot the 180gr. TSX's very well and since they hit the market, a couple elk have hit the deck. They flat out work! I've no isses with the current 200gr. NP's, but figure that I might as well load 'down' for this cartridge as well given the consistently higher retained weight factor of the TTSX's/TSX's.

IMHO, RL25 is the ticket for the very effective and accurate 300RUM cartridge...............

They shoot well out of my 25-06 too. I don't know why I care but it seems that they should make this bullet in an 85-grain weight for the 25s.

I use this bullet in my 25 STW and it puts elk down in a hurry . Great bullet for the 25-06 if your rifle will shoot them. In my 25-06 i use the Nosler 100 gr BT and the 110 gr Accubond with Rel 22 both shoot around 1/2 inch from my rifle.

They do make a 25cal ttsx check out midway or barnes website

I'm going to try the TTSX in my 257Roberts this year. The TSX works extremely well already.

The 130TTSX in my 300WM was incredibly efficient on 2 SE Whitetails at 3,500fps this season.:) Oh yeah...They also group .5 MOA or better out of a 13 year old factory tube:)

The 210TTSX's out of my 338-06 don't group as well at 2,650fps....But they did the job nonetheless:)










Robert

How many grns of RL22?