Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting So.. Barnes TTSX's... Light and Fast?

So for those that have used the TTSX bullets, what is the most effective...

Light weight bullet and fast velocity...

or Heavy For Caliber and moderate velocity?

Was thinking of using in either a 260 or 7 x 57 for deer..

and for elk, the 7 x 57 or the 338/06....

experiences appreciated!
thanks!

I guess I've gone the route of using good-midweight TTSX's with a decent BC keeping the game I'm after in mind. Others have used them more than I...but so far I've loaded as such:
.243 80g
7x57 140
30'06 150g & 168g
280 AI 150g
300 H&H 180 g
308 150g
we haven't killed with all those loads, but what we've shot at animals has worked great.

handwerk,

great minds think alike.

Seafire -

a 140 TTSX for the 7x57 and either 210 or 225 TTSX for the .338-06.

Personally, while I would take my 7x57 with a 140 TTSX elkhunting, I can hear your .338-06 calling for those 225s through my 'puter - and thats elk medicine.

Seafire...whatever shoots best..my 7x57 likes the 160s....

Ingwe

They might "way overpenetrate", but the 100 gr. TTSX out of my .260 is going to kill some chit.

RL...it appears that they do....they went the whole way through everything Ive shot with them, then failed to fall on the ground just below the off side of the critters...
Tends to make me think they were still going after penetration...thus " overpenetrating"...

Prolly should scrap the whole TSX idea.....

I heard the BCs on them suck too....

Ingwe

Ingwe,

post your load, please.

Wait, wait - that did not come out right... seeing it is you.

What velocities are you getting with your 7x57 and 160 fps?

Rancho,

Out of curiosity what does your powder/load look like for the 100 TTSX in the .260 (I refuse to use the "post you're load" phrase) ?

I'm down to about 100 or so 120 TSX and I'm giving SERIOUS thought to switching to the 100 TTSX instead.

George

I'll apologize in advance for not responding right off. I'm out the door to a funeral but will return.

160 gr. TSX in front of 50 gr. H4831sc for 2650fps...and it kills all creatures great and small....

Ingwe

I'm reloading the TTSXs now but my experience had been with the TSX and was all good. I dropped from 300s to the 270-gr TSX in my 375; from 180s in my '06 to the 168/165s. I've taken about 15 head of game with them and recovered two, one out of a big burchells zebra and one that hit brush but stayed "on track" and killed a waterbuck, having gone through sideways. The rest ventilated their target on both sides and sailed on.

They've also been the most accurate bullet in these rifles.

+1 on the accuracy, and Ive only got one rifle shooting the TTSXs...a .243...but boy, does it ever like them!
Havent tried them in others, as Ive been so happy with my existing loads and the regular TSX...


Ingwe

Yeah, light and fast is the route I've gone with TSXs and it hasn't been a problem. But I haven't gone super light either. 120 grains(Tipped) in the .264 at 3500 and 130 grains in the .270 WSM at 3300. Both of those have smashed through elk shoulders and kept going. For deer and antelope, I'd consider the real lightweights: 100 grain .264, 110 .270, 80 grain .257, etc.

Anyone tryed the 150s in a 300 win?

JeffO says that,

I'm currently working on loading 160gr TTSX in my .338 Federal. I figure somewhere around 2850fps can't be a bad thing. As long as they shoot well in my Sako, I'm going to flame a couple does this year. My thoughts on TTSX, TSX is that they benefit from higher impact velocity. These would be the first animals I've shot with them.

CLB

4 deer, take whatever shoots as it doesn't take much to get two holes on them.

But for elk, and this is just me I want two holes (OP) and so I'd go with the 140 (not the 120) in the 7X, and in the 338/06 I'd go with the 210.

Just the way I roll.

Dober

A little tangent here, but sort of on topic I guess...

Have the TTSX's shot any different than the TSX's for anyone. I've got a real good load worked up for my 7STW with the 150 TSX's at about 3400fps. I'm going to try the TTSX's for the little added BC benefit and potentially quicker/more reliable expansion.

I have some of the TTSX's loaded up with the same charges as the TSX's, but haven't made it to the range to see for myself yet. Just curious what others experiences have been.

Kevin

It's the same bullet except for the Tip

I'd go with the 210 in the 338-06. I gave the 185 gr TSX a go in mine a few years ago. While the elk dropped at the shot (280 yards) the old slug took quite a beating.

Barnes ahs released a 110gn TTSX in .284 caliber. I think that will be popular with the smaller case 7mm crowd.

JW