Originally Posted by horse1
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.


Might be just the lighting in the pic, but, the bullet looks "bent" and would've been wobbling upon impact.


A friend of mine recovered a TTSX from an elk that looked much better than that one. Like you could've put the tip back on and loaded it again. 168 grain out of a .308, so, a little slow. He hit the elk in the heart, so no secnd shot needed.


A wise man is frequently humbled.