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What's been ur experience with them and what have u used them on?
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I have....on several deer. They work! I've never caught one yet. The longest shot I've taken with them is 150ish and I've killed a couple pretty heavy bucks with them. The first one below was shot head on and the bullet exited the flank. The second one was a true broadside shot. Neither deer went far. I've had others drop in their tracks, while the farthest death run was about 80 yards.
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Killed a couple last year with my .243AI and they worked as they should.
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I've used them on deer: Whitetail, Axis, Fallow. Used them on hogs as well. Animals dead and no bullets recovered. They shoot very well out of my slower twist Winchester.
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They work well. I've never stopped one in a deer. I have solved six rifles for them, one shot inch to inch and a quarter. The rest were sub inch. 37.5-38.5 grains Varget worked in every one. About 3200 FPS.
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I have shot a couple of deer with them, and won't be using them going forward.
On a perfect broadside heart shot, it left very little blood trail at all, and it did not tear up the insides like I am used to either. The death run was longer than with a softer bullet.
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The couple of folks who use 243's in our deer camp use them (80gr TTSX's) exclusively, and to good effect on our rather large bodied mule deer. I loaded a bunch up for a landowner near here who uses them on deer AND ELK. Even one Moose in Alaska where she also has land. All critters shot with them dead quickly.
The butcher that most of my group uses sees a LOT of animals come through his freezers shot with many different bullets. He hates Core Lokt's and Sierra's for all of the lost meat, loves and uses himself only Barnes TTSX in 243(80gr) and 7mm RemMag (140gr).
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I use them with excellent performance and results. They always act like a larger bullet in how they hit, and the blood trails they produce. They work great on turkeys and coyotes as well.
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Have only seen one deer harvested with the 80 ttsx but it died the fastest death I've ever seen from a heart/lung area shot. Its legs simply folded beneath it and the doe's head literally hit the ground so hard it bounced a little.
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Me too! I clicked and saved an earlier pic of it.
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One hog, maybe 200 lbs, about 110 yards out. It did just fine.
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One hog, maybe 200 lbs, about 110 yards out. It did just fine. Nice one! It looks to be through the ribs. Did you get a good sized exit hole with good damage inside the chest just as you would have with a lead bullet, or do you think the wound channel was smaller with less trauma, "blood shot" in the surrounding tissue. I've not killed anything with the 243. Do you think a bullet like the 85grn Sierra Game King would have resulted in complete penetration?
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Did fine with a average VA 8pt 1/4ing too through the lungs and it dropped, got back up and ran 40 yards. Didn't recover the bullet, and the blood trail was a little light, but still more than adequate.
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Thanks for that information. I bought 100 to try in my 243. I know they are wonderful on shoulder shots but I've heard they don't do quite as much damage as lead through the lungs, so I am very interested. I eat shoulders and mostly shoot lungs or the edge of shoulder into heart when possible on a doe I intend for meat.
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No exit on the hog, and I never did find the bullet. Plenty of internal damage. It was a double-lung shot, and he only ran about 40-50 yards after the hit - which hogs will do even when shot through the heart.
I would not use a Game King on a larger hog, especially a boar. Their armor plate can do strange things to standard cup and core bullets, especially in smaller calibers.
I was only carrying the 243 for coyotes as I'd already bagged another boar with my 338 RCM. The pig I shot with the 243 was merely a target of opportunity.
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