Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by T_Inman

I am not making any judgments concerning Barnes, because I've had some good results with them, but have had enough bad experiences to give me pause.
80 yards. Impact velocity roughly 2800 FPS. Only reason I recovered the animal was because I put a second bullet into him. This was from a deer, not an elk so please don't chastise me, but you know how many words a picture is worth...
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Hopefully I've just had abnormal luck or bad lots of bullets from Barnes, but I've found that sometimes they work awesome, sometimes they don't.



What bullet weight, cartridge and barrel twist?




62 TSX, vanilla .223 and 1/9 twist. Come to think of it, the impact velocity may have been closer to 3000 FPS...not really sure but it isn't going at turtle speed.

Really accurate, out past 500 yards.