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People have to be crazy to waste $1.00 for a bullet to shoot a big game animal!

Sweet! I don't get to the fire much anymore and first I had heard. Has barnes given a release date?

Barnes monolithic hollow points have always been called "X" bullets. ......XFB, XBT, XLC, TSX, TTSX......they are all X bullets. I have more of the earlier versions which I have recovered from game animals, but that is only because I have killed more with them. Percentage-wise, I have more of the recent (TSX) types though they number only two or three. It appears to me that the newer bullets do not open as widely as older X types did. Perhaps that solves the petal loss "problem". Perhaps the newer designs also help improve the reliability of the bullet to open, even if to a lesser degree. I don't know. I am still not convinced that monolithics have been developed to the point that they open as well and consistently at lower speeds as bullets constructed from softer, malleable metals such as lead. I do think the extra T is an effort by Barnes, and the singular efforts of Hornady and Nosler, to solve lower speed impact upset issues. They are great bullets within their speed window of effectiveness.

release date for TTSXs in .22...undetermined...

Hardly, ...as I Blessed these Gifts, which they were about to receive...
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OK....Dat's a "click and save"....

definitely a wicked cool picture! i stole it too!

Nice pic!! 338-06?

prm,

my 338 Fed's are looking like that with 160 TTSX's. Gonna give them a test next week. Have you tried them in your 338 Fed yet?

Zealots!

Official word from Barnes:

Heres what Josh gave me on the 358 200 TTSX...



im figurin 1700 or so on this one.

Hey Pat, I stopped a 62 grain TSX last night...the first one I ever fired at a critter.

Ham to head, lost a petal. Can't load pics in the sticks, but I've got some autopsy photos I'll hang later.

Congratulations! They are hard to catch. Thus far, I've recovered two 53's and one .308 120grn. I can hardly imagine what it would take to stop a 100grn .257. Anybody here every recovered one from an animal?

Going to try the 185s on a hog this weekend.

Ha, just messin' around. Turkey's here are a shotgun game. I'll never forget the first time I had one spitting and drumming right in my lap. We can't use rifles here, though there have been some times when I wished we could.

We can use them here in the fall season. For reasons unknown, we cannot use them in the spring season...hence I have never shot a turkey with a shotgun.

I'm thinkin' its for all the Bubba Wannabes that want to ground sluice a bird during mating season, like they see so often on Bubbavision...

I have a few boxes of .284 120grn I am looking forward to punching leather with.

I still have a stash of the old 7mm 120gr "X" bullet. I only shoot them in one rilfe. My old rem mtn rifle in 280 loves those bullets moly'd and shoots them very very well. I have enough for a few more years but after that I'll just have to switch to the TTSX.

Lots of interesting comments. So far I've only loaded up my .257 Robt. and .35 Whelen with the TSX bullets. Accuracy from the .257 runs right at 1.25" which is about all I gotten regarding accuracy from that rifle. It's just adequate although I'm thinking playing with the seating depth might help improve accuracy. Bullet is the 100 gr. TSX over a fairly stiff load of IMR4350.
On the .35 Whelen, I use the 225 gr. TSX over a stiff oad of RL15 and the rifles shoots .50 to .75". I shot a cow elk with that load last december and the bullet hit just behind the short ribs on the left side and exited between the neck and right shoulder. I've never seen an animal go down as fast as that elk did.
I recently picked up some 20 gr. and 140 gr. TSX bullets to rey in my 7x57 and .280 Rem. I haven't gotten aroud to loading any of those yet. Should be interesting.
On the .257, my ex-son in law has a Winchester M70 Feather weight that is the exact twin of mine. After missing a deer we shot at a beer cah stuck in the crotch of a tree. The bullets were dead on and every one punched clean through a 13" pine. The TSX cost me a very nice Mule Deer on that hunt. He was standing with a bunch of does and I knew damn well if I shot him I'd probably take a couple of does as well. I guess I shouldn't blame the bullet as I was using the Whelen and regardless of what bullet I used I'd have taken a couple of does. Just bad luck, that's as as that was the only decent buck I saw on the whole trip.
Paul B.