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I use them light for caliber is just about everything I hunt with. Always been very accurate and never failed to pass through.
The 130 gr. 308 TTSX is my go to walk around medicine in a Kimber adirondack sun 5# syringe. “Cured” lots of critters with that combo.
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My go to hunting round.
127 in the 6.5, 130 in the 270, and 168ttsx.
The faster they go the better they work.
My 06 has many elk on it with ttsx.
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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I use them light for caliber is just about everything I hunt with. Always been very accurate and never failed to pass through.
The 130 gr. 308 TTSX is my go to walk around medicine in a Kimber adirondack sun 5# syringe. “Cured” lots of critters with that combo. I shoot that in my BLR. Deadly on deer. Damn near no recoil either
DON’T BE TOO PROUD OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR YOU’VE CONSTRUCTED. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE.
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The 100 grain TTSX in .25-06 has killed a bunch of hogs, deer and a nice Axis for me so far. My fave in the .25-06.
Bob
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Used 130gr TTSX in 270 to take aoudad and axis. Dall sheep at 450yds. Shoots moa in my Sako 85.
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The 200 gr ttsx shoot great out of my tikka rebored to a 35 whelen. I shot an elk this weekend and there was no tracking.
Looks like Sierra is the new owner of Barnes.
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Tried them in one .338.
Fed 250 partitions were more accurate so I moved on.
Might try again in the future. Might not.
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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I had lent out my Remington 700 in .30-06 to a friend a few years ago. Last year, he returned it sighted in for 150 gr. Barnes Vortex TTSX in 150 gr. I used that combo last year on a 170 yd shot on a medium sized Kentucky whitetail. Absolute hammer. Fortunately for me, he gave me a box and a half of ammo when he returned the rifle. I will be reordering it when the supply runs low.
If ifs and buts were like candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day.
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150's in my 308 work/shoot great!! I used that bullet in the VorTx factory ammo to great effect on a cull hunt overseas. Across a dozen deer & a sizable boar, there was nary a hiccup. FC
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Chose them (Barnes Vor-tx 120gr TTSX) as a light for caliber, reduced recoil load for my Wife's Savage Lady Hunter in 7mm-08.
She has dumped a pile of Canadian Whitetail & 1 bull moose with them.
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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I had lent out my Remington 700 in .30-06 to a friend a few years ago. Last year, he returned it sighted in for 150 gr. Barnes Vortex TTSX in 150 gr. I used that combo last year on a 170 yd shot on a medium sized Kentucky whitetail. Absolute hammer. Fortunately for me, he gave me a box and a half of ammo when he returned the rifle. I will be reordering it when the supply runs low.
If ifs and buts were like candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day.
“The .30-06 is never a mistake.” - Col. Townsend Whelan
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Glad guys are having luck with this ammo. I haven’t been able to get it to shoot accurate for me. Extreme spread has been over 100 in all the loads I tried. Which could explain the accuracy issues. It’s a hard pass for me on the vor-Tx ammo
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Barnes is now owned by Sierra.
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
Doug
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