I’ve shot one Elk with Barnes bullets. 150 TTSX out of a 7mm Rem Mag. Average Vel is 3226. The bull was shot slightly quartering to me at 125 yards or so. He took three or four staggering steps and dropped dead.
Shot a lot of Mule and WT Deer with this combo. My last and largest Mule Deer was shot at 220 yards. Stayed on his feet after the shot so long I questioned if I hit him so I shot again. He jumped the fence and went out of sight. It was getting too dark to shoot so I went back the next morning and found him dead in under a cut bank 30 Yards from the fence.
They do penetrate very well. I recovered one 150 TSX out of a .30-06 which went through a hip joint and stopped under the hide on the opposite side of a WT buck at 320ish yards.
I think they work well and I have never had a problem getting them to shoot well. I have also used the 7mm 150 ballistic tip and 162 ELD-X on Deer and Antelope. I would use neither on Elk, personally.
