Haven't used the Bearclaw,but have used the Bitterroot,which served as Jack Carter's inspiration for development of the Bearclaw,and the Bitteroot is every bit as good,behaves in a similar fashion.Godogs and Dancing Bear are right as to type of bullet performance,wound channels, etc., IMHO,and I'd prefer either to the TSX,or any derivitive thereof.Swift Aframe is another real good one.

Don't know if they still make it,but it always struck me that the Federal HE 140 BearClaw for the 270 Win may have been the very best factory load ever produced for the cartridge,for all-round use.

I guess they have gone to inserting the little plastic non-sense in the new TBBC.More trendy silliness... smirk good for varmint bullets but utterly irrelevant in a big game bullet,unless your bullets don't expand well;then it helps.

Last edited by BobinNH; 09/04/08.


The 280 Remington is overbore.

The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.