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It has been the experience of those I hunt with that Barnes bullets provide DRT results more often than not. My mulie buck last week was another DRT result.

.300WM, 175g LRX, 245 yards. 4x4 if you count the tine that was broken off. On the ground before I recovered from the recoil, never took a step.



Not a monster, but it should be good eating. Daughter #2 informed me a few days back that they had finished the last of the 2016 buck and the 2015 elk. My grandkids are growing up hardly knowing what beef is.

Nice job. Great caliber.. I am not hot on Barnes bullets,but if you like them fine... I think the deer and antelope my grand kids are eating was mostly taken with good old Sierra bullets.. Result is the same.. Clean kills with good meat for the family..

Yep, the barnes TTSX's have worked very well for my kids and I, calibers from .243 to 300 H&H. Congrats on your mulie!

I had a great hunt in Eastern Canada this last week. Used the 130 TSX in my 308 win. Harvested a mature whitetail buck about 175 pounds at close range. The deer was relaxed shot just behind both shoulders and low and was also DRT. I will be shooting a few more with this combo. Early results are quite impressive.

Good luck and shoot straight

Bob

Nice buck, appreciate the info. Thanks for sharing.

Good job on the mule deer! I am a HUGE Barnes fan...alot has been written here and elsewhere about Barnes performance. Our own JB ( a good friend and honest gun writer) maintains the critters he has seen shot with them ( which are many...many) go just a bit farther before expiring than they do with a conventional cup-n-core bullet. This has not been my personal experience...I have a sample of a bit over 60 critters taken with the Barnes and find them expiring right on schedule, if not a bit quicker. That said, JB has seen a LOT more than 60 so as with everything else he writes...I tend to believe him...

All tolled, since I do a lot of 'stunt shooting' with small calibers I find the Barnes TSX and TTSX to be the game changer. If you are going to shoot any critter most folks consider too big or too tough for your caliber...use a Barnes!

That is the same cartridge and bullet Daughter #1 uses for everything - antelope to elk. Or antelope so far, as that is all she has harvested. 3045fps with CFE223.


The entrance hole in the hide was hard to find, but here is the entrance hole in the rib cage:


Exit side:



Lots of destruction between those two holes.

+1,000 on this. I was trying to explain this to someone this weekend, while trying to convince them that a 243 was plenty big for whitetails but they simply needed a different bullet to achieve the exit holes they desired. They were killing deer using 95 gr SST, but weren't happy with the lack of exit holes and blood trails. "Barnes and other premium bullets are MAJOR game changers for small calibers" was my exact quote.


My experience has been that I have less bang-flops with TTSX than c&c bullets but I get very consistent, short blood trails with lung shots. I also have now started shooting almost exclusively through the shoulders whenever possible, which does lead to bang flops. I have probably 35 kills with a 120 ttsx in 7mm08 and 5 kills between my 9 yr old and myself with 80 gr ttsx and GMX in .243.

Nice buck, that combination should be deadly.

Pretty buck there, and I have gotten quite a few bangflops with mono-bullets when they catch shoulders.

Bang flop on a Scimitar Horned Oryx.."tough" game.....223AI 62 Gr Barnes TSX...

Congrats on a nice deer, the “bang-flop” with the wrong bullet, and owning-up to your mistake . Also,contrary to “popular opinion”....the will also kill “small” big game with big calibers! Though not considered possible by some memtb

What's that I see? Bloodshot around a Barnes made hole? I didn't think that happened.

To the OP: where did the bullet hit the deer?

Congrats on the harvest. I love Barnes Bullets and use them pretty exclusively in my big game rifles.

My experience is about the same as yours Mathman. The destruction in the chest cavity was considerable the heart was basically butterflied as well as damage to the lungs lots of congealed matter. There was not a great deal of damage to the meat was far less than partitions or SGK.

Good luck with the rest of the season all.

Bob

When the buck was standing, straight up the leg, about 1/3 the way down from the top. If you look closely at the photo in my original post, you can see some roughed up fur where my orange sweatshirt disappears behind the buck. The entry was directly below that. If you look at the shadow behind the front leg, measure halfway up to the visible top of the deer, then go straight left to a point below where my sweatshirt touches the deer. That will get you pretty close.

Barnes makes great bullets, accurate in every rifle I’ve tried them in.

I load my 130 TTSX with h4895 at less than min load with devistating results. Reduced recoil loads.

Another Barnes bang flop on a tough Texas Oryx...55 grain Barnes TTSX out of a .223AI

But you can tell by the shot placement why the bang flop...