I popped a whitetail this year with a 80 grain TTSX at 3900 fps MV out of a .257 Weatherby. Since the range was only 68 yards it had most of it left. Anyway, I caught the back of the shoulder, blew a fist sized entrance hole and a bullet sized exit just behind the far shoulder. It still ran maybe 40-50 yards with a blood trail 8 feet wide. I don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of my stories with Barnes bullets ending with "And then it ran away and we looked for it". This one was a science project to see if hyper speed was going to drop animals better; I think its safe to say I'm going to go back to bullets with lead in them and leave the TSXs and TTSXs for buffalo and such.


Life begins at 40. Recoil begins at "Over 40" Coincidence? I don't think so.