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I have 7 elk with ttsx. From 50 to about 400 yards.
All pass through. Neck, shoulders, heart/lungs.
30-06, 168ttsx

With results like that I would load up a couple hundred and kill stuff for many years.

A good report, and a nice job on those two cow elk. I have been shooting the 175 grain LRX in a "beater" Savage Axis 308, powered by IMR 4064. Accuracy is excellent at over 2,600 fps. I could go hotter.

Dropped a nice mulie buck with a 175g LRX a couple years ago; It was on the ground before I recovered from the recoil. A bit under 300 yards. Will be using them again this year if my .300WM goes on the elk hunt as one of the two rifles I take. (probable).

Very accurate bullet!

Loaded some for a friend of mine for his 300 WSM He put the LRX up the six on a bull.

Makes a pretty good sized hole. Maybe too big?

My go-to load when I had a .30 cal. Peas and carrots.

Sounds like good bullet and shooter performance to me. Enjoy those elk steaks.

Great report man congrats on the first elk hunt as a resident that’s fantastic!

Bought another box of .308" 175g LRX today. Gives me around 100 loaded rounds and 150 on the bullet shelf. If not a lifetime supply they should last for a while. My .300WM loves them.

I bought some today to try in my .30-06. It shoots 165 TSX very well and 180 gr Core Lokts similarly, so thought I’d try some. Happy Trails

My way of thinking is this bullet is better suited to the 300 magnums. With a -06 or a 308 I would use either a 130/150 TTSX or If you can get them to shoot the 150 Etip.

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I agree with you on that. My rifle seems to not shoot lighter 150 gr TTSX bullets very well, so I thought I’d give the heavier LRX a whirl. My .300 Weatherby shoots the 168 TTSX extremely well so leaving that one alone. Happy Trails

I used the 175 LRX in a 300WM, also going 3100 ( not the fastest I could push it) for 2 reasons...(1) I wanted to see how it opened up with a "behind the shoulder shot", and (2) it shot so well with R23 that I wanted to use for Temp stability. At 100yds ( guesstimate) with a high lung shot, I got quarter sized entrance/exits but lungs really tore up. She ran 30yds downhill and rolled a bit. I have loaded the 165-168 Barnes for others in their 30-06s and 300 WSMs, they are pure poison on deer/elk for them. My last cow elk before this one was way back in 2002, used a Barnes 185 XLC in a 338WM, also around 3100fps. Same results. I will be trying to get to 3100+ with the 150TTSX in a 24" 30-06 and 6.5 Staball. "IF" I could get it there with accuracy, I would be tempted to shoot a cow elk with it. I bet it would "work just fine" at 2900fps too, ha. I know I worry way too much about the "hard angling shots, etc, and I still end up with a broadside, high lung shot opportunity 95% of the time! I must be a better "Hunter" than I give myself credit for, lol

I will be trying the new Absolute Hammer bullets in 178 gr. These have minimal engraving surfaces and velocity gain up to 300 fps have been realized without excessive pressures.

A 178 gr Hammer at 3700 fps in a 30-378 Bee would be fun no?

Fortis, I am very curious as to what you find out with that bullet. 300fps sounds optimistic to me.

Go to long-range hunting .com and read from the beginning

https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/introducing-the-absolute-hammer.248519/page-52#post-1989200

Looks like a lot of data that isnt pressure tested. Some seems standard velocity wise and others seems sky high.

As long as we talking about Barnes 175 LRX, has anyone tried these in a 1-11 inch twist?
Thanks for the feed back.
Take care.