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My son just pick up a 6.5 creedmoor. I'm curious about the how the 120 ttsx is performing for you guys.

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44.8g of IMR 4451 at 3000. Kimber Hunter 22inch barrel, 8 twist. 120 Nosler Ballistic Tip does about the same. If I return to Newfoundland this year looking for Moose steaks the 6.5 Creedmoor with the above TTSX loads goes with me.
Jim

Thinking of this bullet in my 6.5 saum. Subscribed

I have NEVER been let down by any TTSX or LRX. They run well and do the deed well. Good luck working up a load, shouldn't be hard!

I use them in Creeds and 6.5-06. Accurate, I like them!!

120 TTSX along with the 120 E-Tip are twins regarding performance and among the most accurate in my 26 Nosler. At 3,450 fps, they can be quite destructive on critters. At Creed speed, they should be less destructive, but should work well.

At Swede and Creed speed, I lean more toward the 123 and 139 Scenar.

DF

I like the 100 grainer when I go unleaded

Forgot we are in the long range forum, I would lean towards the 127 LRX if I needed to use a copper bullet, but I use the 139 scenar in my 260 AI these days

We shoot them, but the Barnes 127g LR are easier to tune and proved to be more accurate in a bunch of 6.5's.

Haven't tried them in the Creed or Swede, but in the 26 Nosler, the 120 TTSX and 120 E-Tips were more accurate than the 127 LRX., roughtly half MOA vs. near MOA at 400 yds. Both would work.

DF

They do very well in my .260 Rem and group exactly 1.5 inches higher than my 120 gr Nosler BT loads at 100 yds. Gives me 2 options for ammo depending on what and where I'm hunting as long as I remember which loads I have in the gun.

This is what I’m doing in my (too) slow twisted 6.5-06




Yep that’s what I’ll be doing when I get a properly twisted tube installed..

In a Creed I’d do what DF suggested & go 123 Lapua.

When I read DF I see that he tends to know his stuff. Credible.

Just loaded up some 100gr TTSX in my 260 doing about 2975. Hopefully I'll have a report this weekend. Should be a good killer.

Any particular reason why you stopped there?

You can push those TTSX 100's up to 3,250 fps. in the 260 Rem.

DF

Considering them in my 6.5 Saum. 3400? 3500?

Could use a different powder to get faster, but used what I had. 99% of shots will be under 100yds, so don't need it to be 10% faster. And not gunna mess with .5 MOA accuracy.

Sounds good to me!

Which powder is that BTW?

Barnes has a list of powders, the slowest top load well into the upper 3,100's, most above 3,200 fps.

https://www.barnesbullets.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/260Remington.pdf

DF

IMR4350. Maybe after deer season, I'll play with it again to see if I can get to the next node without pressure. I'll check my load data when I get home to see where I'm at.

I went as high as 47.2gr, but the accuracy wasn't there. I settled on 45.6gr.

I've been using the 120gr TTSX in my Ruger 260 since shortly after it's introduction. This rifle was trouble from the start - horrible trigger, mediocre accuracy (1 1/2 -2 inches). I put in a Timney and began handloading, with my best loads (with both the Sierra 120gr Prohunter and the 120gr Nosler BT) hovering in the 1 1/4- 1 1/2 inch zone. Made a direct swap with the TTSX, absolutely no other changes and groups shrank to an honest inch, sometimes under. Bullet performance has been outstanding, both on whitetails and antelope. I once inadvertantly ran a magazine of this load through my Forbes 260 (for which I was trying to find a load for the 127 LRX) and was gifted with that rifles best group to date- sub 3/4 inches for 3 shots. Have yet to get the LRX to get near the one inch mark, let alone under it....


I don't know if I would classify this as a long range bullet, but it's certainly working out well on the sub-300 yard game I'm shooting.


Kaiser Norton

Barnes doesn’t list that bullet for the 6.5-300. It should do around 3500 FPS plus.

Maybe they haven’t gotten around to it.

26 Nosler is pretty close. 120 TTSX is my bullet of choice, accuracy at 3,450.

I think you could use 869 powder, start with 26 Nosler data, work up from there. 3,500 not a problem.

DF

My SAUM likes the 127LRX much better than the TTSX.

My hunting pard used the 120 GMX Superformance ammo out of his Kimber Mtn Acsent 6.5 Creed. 1 shot drt on a CO muley last year. Bullet performance was outstanding. Some of the Superformance ammo shoots better than I can load. The 130 GMX is my daughter's 22" 270 Win avg's 3182 fps and a S-D of 4.1

I’ve used the 120 ttsx.

I’ve rather the 127 lrx.

Had great luck with deer and pigs with the 127 lrx.

I’ll take the Barnes over the eld-x any day.

I like exit wound in the case they run. What I’ve seen with the 143 eld-x is that it’ll destroy the insides. But no blood.
I blind trailed a doe for about 100 yds. Skinned her amd vitals were jelly.

I cut my teeth with the ttsx in 35 whelen. Those are pretty substantial.
I’ll use Barnes until they quit making them.

I have heard from a couple of reliable sources that they prefer the on game performance of the 120 TTSX over the 127 LRX. Any truth to that?

R

I’ve shot elk, mule deer, antelope, and black bear with a 123gr Scenar from a 6.5 creedmoor and a 257 newton. I’d do it all over again. The only other bullet that warrants consideration is the 140 partition. I wouldn’t feel undergunned with either of them.

Dirt, you just never know what rifles are going to like....we probably just got lucky!

Tikka T3XSL, 6.5 CM, 24”, 127 LRX. 44.5 gr of Hunter, 2850 FPS +/-

What else have you got to choose from for a moose hunt?

Can mess up a hog. Who says monos don't do tissue damage.

The poison is in the speed.....

I’ll be using them on our white tails this fall @ 3300 from a 6.5 saum

Actually



PS. The LRX's plain rock as a bullet!

That'll work.

That bullet wasn't quite as accurate as the 120 TTSX or 120 E-Tip out of my Shilen, 26 Nos.

DF

Traded my 300wsm for 270 Win. I'd probably use the 130TTSX, '06. 35Whelen, others I could also borrow.
Creed 6.5'll do the job.

Now ya talking.

Them Creeds is magic...

DF

They can leap tall buildings with a single bound.

Absolutely...

You got it...

DF

I just received the 123 Absolute hammers yesterday! Steve of hammer bullets specially designed with very small rifle engraving surface.
Every gun so far has produced 300 fps more velocity at same as other bullet pressures.

So I will probably break 3800 fps with them with the 6.5 Bee.

see here

https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/introducing-the-absolute-hammer.248519/page-35



With the 7mm 155 Absolute Hammers one guy is getting 3350 from his 7mm SAUM and consistent hits at over 1k.

Those Hammers look interesting. I have a couple boxes of Hammer Hunters that I have not gotten around to loading and now they have already improved them, dang.

I have used the original 120 grain Barnes X in 7RM extensively and it is a hammer. I have also used the 6.5mm 120 TTSX and like it very much, but I would not consider it a long-range combination. A good one but the previously mentioned Hammers and Scenars will beat them easily at anything over 400 yards, as well as many others over about 130 grains in weight.

I didn't get it.

I tried them in my saum, but had much better groupings with the 127 LRX’s.

They are half MOA in 2 different SAUMs for me. Haven’t tried the lrx

127 were a miss in my rifle. Need to try the 120s

6.5CM/Barnes LRX combo dropped my Northern Alberta bull moose hard this year. It’ll do the job and then some.

Hammer bullets look interesting. That’s a heck of a velocity gain.

You can say that again. Not to mention the ~ 6 feet of penetration.

Yup. That little 127 is impressive.

Don't overlook the Hornady GMX, with a slightly better BC. They are more accuracy than the Barnes in my .260. Midway has Blems in stock.

Saw this and thought it can relate a bit
https://youtu.be/o9M8UwrSQpg

What kind of accuracy are you getting with that load. 5 shot groups, since I know guys don't shoot 10 shots here...

Don't really need to worry about a five-shot group, with a hunting rifle. Three is more than enough.

When I go to the range that first shot is the most important one to me. When I put the crosshairs on game I want to have a history as to where that first shot goes. Confidence is a major factor for me to hit where I want to.

Uh oh,,, no you didn’t..,

I’ll have to do a 5 or 10 shot group just for you!

The bullets that have worked for me:
A Team) Nosler ballistic tip
B Team) Nosler Accubond, Hornady SST
C Team) Berger, Barnes, Sierra, Speer

The 140 gr 7mm and the 120 gr 6.5mm nos bal tip are killing everything I touch with them.