Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles I used the 62 grain TBBC this week.

Thought I'd share the results for anyone looking for a good .22 bullet. This was Federal factory loaded ammo at .223 velocity fired in an 18" barrel.

The first shot was at around 65 yards on about a 230 pound sow. The shot entered low and just barely behind the shoulder and exited about halfway up the opposite side, around six inches back. She bucked at the shot and ran hard for about 70 yards before falling over in a dead run.

The rest of the herd ran a little further and stopped in a field. Since I could see them and wanted another shot I didn't check to see what kind of blood trail the exit left, and it got too dark to bother with before I was done.

The second shot hit a smaller boar (around 160 pounds). He was quartering hard to me and the shot entered about halfway up right where the shoulder meets the neck. The bullet went through a little shoulder meat and broke two ribs going in, then went through about 14" of hog and broke a rib coming out the opposite side. I found the bullet outside the body cavity and under the hide, which was about a half inch of gristle right there. I reckon that on a critter with softer hide the bullet would've exited.

The recovered bullet weighed 58 grains and expanded to 1/2".

That looks real good!

I used 55 gr TBBCs when they were available to the hand loader...excellent bullets!

That bullet looks good. Thanks for the report and congrats on the pork!

Looks like a killer to me! I'd love to get mt hands on some of those bullets.

That is awesome performance, thanks for sharing!

That's about what I like in a bullet to be used on game animals.

Nice Bluedreaux!

what is the diff from the TSX?

I compared this one to two 62 grain TSXs I caught a few years ago. The TBBC looks identical to a TSX that penetrated through more pig at a higher velocity (near muzzle velocity from a 20" .223 AI). Another TSX shot in circumstances similar to the TBBC retained noticeably more shank, although it did expand about as widely.

I didn't mention it, but the second pig dropped at the shot. He quit kicking as I walked up to him.

Same here, and yep they were lethal little bastids.

Sorry for the late reply. The TBBC is a lead core, bonded bullet and as such has a more traditional and devastating wound channel. TSXs are wonderful, and kill cleanly, TBBCs tend to cause more damage, so for those sitting on the fence thinking the CF.22s might not do the trick, one look at a TBBC kill will tell you otherwise....

This one caught a 55 gr TBBC and it was shot in the right place but the blood spraying down the side ( so much for .22s not leaving a trail....) makes it look like it was hit 'in the middle'''

Used them in 7 Mags for years. Every bit as reliable as the Partition and provided plenty of DRT's.

Never caught one. Never wanted to.

It'll be interesting to see the Nosler 64 gr. bonded start showing up. Not sure how similar it is to the tbbc though.