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My daughter will be using the 120gr GMX out of a 6.5 Creedmoor for antelope this weekend. Hopefully I can give a report on how they work when we return.

Don't want to hijack the thread (which remains useful and becomes more so with additional posts, despite being 5 years-old), BUT...
How about some more pics and information about that beautiful Savage 99?

Thanks,
Rex

Good luck and enjoy your time afield with your daughter.

Mine is joinng me on a casual (local) Antelope adventure this weekend albeit using ABLR or ELD-M or NBT. She's brought good luck with the deer, hope the trend continues.

The cartridge is the 270/300 Savage, or 270 Titus. It's a pencil weight barrel carbine, very light and fast rifle. Fine checkering, nice blonde streaked wood. I haven't hunted it in years, but have loads for the 110 Barnes now. Longest shot on game was right at 600 yards on a blacktail shooting the Nosler 115 Custom Competition. Not enough time, too many guns....

A .277" round out of a Sav 99? Is it just a .308 necked down to .277 or something?

Disregard. 2 minutes too late.

With the bear huntin dog LOL

Cool. Great grain flow!

Anymore I enjoy putting my kids on game than I do shooting them myself.
And incidentally mine went hunting for the first time last antelope season. This season she's decided she wants to go to elk camp too!

Awesome dad! Post up a hunt report if you get a chance.

Most of my rifles don’t like them. My one ‘06 likes the 165’s but only when seated at least .100 off the lands.

I will add that after shooting them side by side with Barnes, the Barnes typically shoot better.
There are two exceptions:
1. My 222 prefers the 55gr GMX over any Barnes from 50-62gr.
2. I have standard loads of 60gr H4831sc under 130gr GMX, T/TSX always ready for any 270 that might find it's way home. Out of the nine 270's that we own, only one shoots the GMX's better.
I .did use that rifle about 10 years ago on a mule deer, it died. Recovered one bullet out of two that were shot. Nothing earth shattering, it worked.
For the rest of the rifles, it is about an even split on TSX vs TTSX preference.

That is with 222, 22-250, 6.5 Creed, 270's, 300 H&H, 338-06, 375 H&H.

Has the 55GMX been out for a while? Guess I was thinking it was a new release.

Great looking rifle, I'm jealous.

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I worked up the load in June of 2019. Do not know when they were released.

Using a 165 GMX in 300WM has been a great combination for us and I haven't seen any down sides.

Thanks for the follow up.

My daughter took muley in the Montana youth hunt this past Friday. 120gr GMX out of a 6.5 Creed going 2750fps. The deer was facing us at a slight angle 35 yards away at the shot. Bullet entered just in front of the near side leg and just below the spine. Destroyed one lung and continued on the length of the animal exiting the ham, but not hitting any bone besides the ribs at the entrance. Deer dropped in its tracks at the shot but managed to regain its feet and stagger 20 feet or so before it gave up the ghost. Entrance and exit holes where small and there was no blood leaking from the wounds.
Seems to perform identical to the Barnes TTSX.

So did you also use the same seating depth (as in off-the-lands) with the GMX as you did the Barnes? Noted that you used the same powder charge.

Monolithic bullets are not all the same. Have found accuracy can vary somewhat with the type of bullet, including ogive, the exact metal/alloy they're made of, etc. Barnes TSXs are made of pure copper. GMXs (along with Nosler E-Tips) are made of gilding metal, the slightly hard copper alloy used for most (but not all) lead-core bullet jackets.

Consequently they all differ slightly in what powder charge and seating depth results in the finest accuracy.