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Sorry about the above post. For some reason the picture did not come out.
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I have had very good luck with ttsx out of my 130gr in 270 and 168gr in 06. as its been brought up, lighter and faster works better with these. I'll have to get some pics up for the nay sayers. elk with 06 deer 270
Last edited by Dre; 07/04/18.
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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I've shot a lot of critters, up to moose size, with the 140gr TSX and TTSX from 7Mag class rifles. It works superbly within its velocity window.
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Barnes bullets have produced solid kills for me in both a 30-378 and 300 Roy. Nice heart shots Dre 👍🏻😎
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The MRX, TTSX and LRX have all worked very well for us, antelope to elk. Can't think of a reason to forgo the tip, which helps ensure expansion and improves B.C. for an untipped TSX.
We have yet to recover a tipped Barnes mono bullet and no animal has gone more than a few yards, with many (half or so) going straight down.
Daughter uses 120g TTSX in her .308 Win. A 140 is one of my 7mm RM loads.
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To clarify with the 140g tipped tripple shock:
This load shoots 3/8" or less in a Rem 700 in a laminate stock, bedded and freefloated
140g tipped tripple shock-seat .050 off the lands***very important Rem brass 9 1/2** very important 65.0g 65.5 66.0g of IMR 4350 3200fps
You are done with your load development if you don't change anything above. Cool your barrel inbetween loads.
Barnes tripple shocks copper foul a barrel like nosler, sierra, and hornady bullets. I usually clean my rifle with good copper solvent every 30 or so rounds.
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This is a picture of a young lady who borrowed my wife's 6.5x308 ( aka 260 Rem today ) for her elk hunt. Her rifle was down for repair. The load was with the Barnes 6.5 120gr old style "X" bullet. One shot kill. This gal was hunting by Her self on public land. No help or guide. Let your daughter see this. A Colorado warden was in the area & herd the shot. Came to the kill & took the picture..I feel sure your daughter could easily take her elk with the 7-08 & the 120gr Barnes TSX..
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My wife has shot two elk with Barnes bullets out of her 7-08ai. A decent 5x5 with a 140 TSX at about 315 yds and a very nice 7x8 bull at 400 yds with a 120 TTSX. Both worked very well. But I felt like the TTSX was at the end of it's performance window at that distance with a MV around 3100-ish fps.
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