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First time I’ve recovered one. 150 gr. Out of a 280AI. Shot was 230 yards and hit the front shoulder an was laying against the hide on the offside. No complaints about the results.

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Looks like it held together well.
To bad that 4th on the rt was broken,nice buck either way

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Hell yeah.

What shooting stix are those?


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Thanks guys. Those are some cheapo Primos sticks. I think they are called polecat or something. Nice and light.

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Wow that’s a pretty dense body to have stopped that bullet.

Beautiful mushroom and buck!

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I caught a 168 TTSX out of a 30-06 with a similar 200-yard shot on my bull elk this year. The bull was slightly quartering away and the bullet went through the front side shoulder and was found under the hide in the neck. The bullet lost 2 petals which were recovered in the neck roast while butchering. The bull dropped in his tracks.

This is the first animal I have personally taken with a Barnes, but have seen others use them successfully for years. I don't think the bull would have been any more "dead" had the bullet exited. 😁


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Originally Posted by elkchsr
First time I’ve recovered one. 150 gr. Out of a 280AI. Shot was 230 yards and hit the front shoulder an was laying against the hide on the offside. No complaints about the results.

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Dats a nice mule deer nowadays....
Very happily seeing more nice bucks taken than Ive seen in years...


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Great buck Congrats

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Great buck, congrats, I haven’t recovered one yet.

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Originally Posted by hanco
Great buck, congrats, I haven’t recovered one yet.

Ditto. I've been using Barnes nearly exclusively for about 30 years and couldn't count the number of game taken and have yet to recover a single bullet except for the ones dug out of the berm behind my target stand.
Nice buck!


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I've recovered 4-5 168 TTSX, out of 3006 @ 2682 fps, from several mule deer and elk both close up (30 yards) to almost 300 yards. Lost petals etc. but killed the animals.

Internet experiences notwithstanding, I also had total failure of 4 different 120 TTSX out of 280 @ 3269 fps on bighorn (1 shot) and pronghorn (took 3 shots) in 2012. Total disintegration, little penetration, bits & pieces of bullet recovered on the pronghorn (of all animals), and lost the bighorn.

Have not shot one at an animal since.

Before the guru's take me to task, I routinely examine wound channels on animals I have shot, have a pretty good idea of how (numerous different) bullets have performed on my game shot over the last 50 years, and the TTSX failures were bona fide, not imagined or based on crappy shooting, excessive distances, iron plated animals, full moon, COVID, or Democrats.

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Originally Posted by ingwe
Dats a nice mule deer nowadays....
Very happily seeing more nice bucks taken than Ive seen in years...



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Pretty much did what it was supposed to do, nice work!

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Great buck! Lots of character.


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Originally Posted by murkydismal
I've recovered 4-5 168 TTSX, out of 3006 @ 2682 fps, from several mule deer and elk both close up (30 yards) to almost 300 yards. Lost petals etc. but killed the animals.

Internet experiences notwithstanding, I also had total failure of 4 different 120 TTSX out of 280 @ 3269 fps on bighorn (1 shot) and pronghorn (took 3 shots) in 2012. Total disintegration, little penetration, bits & pieces of bullet recovered on the pronghorn (of all animals), and lost the bighorn.

Have not shot one at an animal since.

Before the guru's take me to task, I routinely examine wound channels on animals I have shot, have a pretty good idea of how (numerous different) bullets have performed on my game shot over the last 50 years, and the TTSX failures were bona fide, not imagined or based on crappy shooting, excessive distances, iron plated animals, full moon, COVID, or Democrats.

Its essentially impossible that a monometal bullet completely disintegrates.

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Originally Posted by BWalker
Originally Posted by murkydismal
I've recovered 4-5 168 TTSX, out of 3006 @ 2682 fps, from several mule deer and elk both close up (30 yards) to almost 300 yards. Lost petals etc. but killed the animals.

Internet experiences notwithstanding, I also had total failure of 4 different 120 TTSX out of 280 @ 3269 fps on bighorn (1 shot) and pronghorn (took 3 shots) in 2012. Total disintegration, little penetration, bits & pieces of bullet recovered on the pronghorn (of all animals), and lost the bighorn.

Have not shot one at an animal since.

Before the guru's take me to task, I routinely examine wound channels on animals I have shot, have a pretty good idea of how (numerous different) bullets have performed on my game shot over the last 50 years, and the TTSX failures were bona fide, not imagined or based on crappy shooting, excessive distances, iron plated animals, full moon, COVID, or Democrats.



Its essentially impossible that a monometal bullet completely disintegrates.



This ^^^^^^^^^^^^



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Great buck and great recovery on that bullet. Looks good


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Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by BWalker
Originally Posted by murkydismal
I've recovered 4-5 168 TTSX, out of 3006 @ 2682 fps, from several mule deer and elk both close up (30 yards) to almost 300 yards. Lost petals etc. but killed the animals.

Internet experiences notwithstanding, I also had total failure of 4 different 120 TTSX out of 280 @ 3269 fps on bighorn (1 shot) and pronghorn (took 3 shots) in 2012. Total disintegration, little penetration, bits & pieces of bullet recovered on the pronghorn (of all animals), and lost the bighorn.

Have not shot one at an animal since.

Before the guru's take me to task, I routinely examine wound channels on animals I have shot, have a pretty good idea of how (numerous different) bullets have performed on my game shot over the last 50 years, and the TTSX failures were bona fide, not imagined or based on crappy shooting, excessive distances, iron plated animals, full moon, COVID, or Democrats.



Its essentially impossible that a monometal bullet completely disintegrates.



This ^^^^^^^^^^^^

But he clearly witnessed it on the sheep he lost.

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Originally Posted by murkydismal
I've recovered 4-5 168 TTSX, out of 3006 @ 2682 fps, from several mule deer and elk both close up (30 yards) to almost 300 yards. Lost petals etc. but killed the animals.

Internet experiences notwithstanding, I also had total failure of 4 different 120 TTSX out of 280 @ 3269 fps on bighorn (1 shot) and pronghorn (took 3 shots) in 2012. Total disintegration, little penetration, bits & pieces of bullet recovered on the pronghorn (of all animals), and lost the bighorn.

Have not shot one at an animal since.

Before the guru's take me to task, I routinely examine wound channels on animals I have shot, have a pretty good idea of how (numerous different) bullets have performed on my game shot over the last 50 years, and the TTSX failures were bona fide, not imagined or based on crappy shooting, excessive distances, iron plated animals, full moon, COVID, or Democrats.

Were those all from the same box of bullets? Sounds like you got a bad batch.


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