Few years back I shot a nice mule deer buck with 30-06 and 165 gr Barnes TSX, the shot was 180 yards away, after the first shot the buck just stood there, I shot again and he barely moved, I reached for friends 6.5 loaded with soft point bullets and aimed just behind the shoulder, at the shot the buck dropped like a rock. When we got to the buck he had a decent hole right at the shoulder and huge hole on the other side of the opposite shoulder made by two Barnes 165 TSX. Both of my shots hit where I aimed broke both shoulders but went clear through without doing any internal damage. The soft point bullet killed it on the spot. After that I started using Nosler Partition bullets. I have a planned elk hunt this fall and due to my shoulder injury I was intending to use 7mm-08 with Barnes 120 TTSX, have any of you used this combo on cow elk. I was wondering if TTSX expand better than TSX.
