I'm a big fan of the TTSXs but I also like SOME traditional cup and cores. One just has to match game, caliber and velocity. This weekend for example, it was opening day here in GA. Two very nice bucks brought into the scales at camp, an eight and ten point (156 and 172 lb respectively) were taken with the (gay) 6.5 Creeds at ranges of 60 and 80 yards (more or less) using 140gr Nosler Ballistic tips. No pass through but both were lung shots but with HUGE entrance holes and LOTS of ruined meat.
That’s pretty interesting. I run the 140 BTs up to 3200 from my 264 Win and I haven’t began to keep one in a buck yet. They also faired real well in water jugs, penetrated and held together as the same load using Accubonds. Hard to believe the little CM tore them up that badly.
The 180 .308’s, 95 .243 and 150 .277 are a few others that have worked real well too.
