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My Son and I were lucky enough to make it to Newfoundland for a last minute moose hunt a couple weeks ago.
After not seeing much for moose, we decided to take anything on our last full day of hunting to at least bring some meat home.
About an hour into the morning, my boy whacked a cow and young bull that were together.
Single shot a piece. The cow was 210 yards out. Double lung, broadside shot. She went maybe 20 yards and dropped. Bullet exited.
Then the bull was about 60 yards and at a hard quartering away with his head down. Bullet hit just in front of his left ham, traveled through to the off shoulder and stopped at the start of his neck.
He may have gone 10 yards and dropped.



.338-06, 2900 fps muzzle vel.

184.5 grns.

Very happy with how this bullet performed!

Holy smokes! That is excellent performance!

Congrats on the moose.

That is indeed great performance. Sounds like a good batch of freezer-filler as well.

Nice looking bullet.

Nice!

Excellent! Congrats to you and your son.

Nice, got to love them.

Thanks! I couldn't have been happier with how they worked.
To top it off, it's the best load this rifle has shot in 20 years.

Another fella on here said they are damned good in a 338-06 as well. If they weren't so scarce I'd give them a shot in the 338 Win for grins.

Possible dvdegeorge.

Exactly what I’ve come expect from a Barnes! Congratulations on the successful hunt, and capturing a Barnes.....it doesn’t happen often! memtb

You beat me to it.

Perfect performance and I've never been able to catch one.

Congrats on a successful hunt.

Pretty good penetration I’d say.

Congratulations on the moose hunt!

Great performance and mirrors what I have seen with the Barnes bullets I have recovered.

I really wanted to shoot those out of my 338-06's, but they both shot much better with 200-210gr weight range, so that is where I ended up.

I'd like to try the 210 ttsx's, but won't be going anywhere that I would need it for a long time.

225 TTSX’s from a .338 WM work quite well on anything, according to my wife! 😉 She has a pretty impressive track record from deer/antelope up through moose! Sadly (well maybe not) , we have yet to recover a bullet! However, the animals were easily recovered! 😁 memtb

Outstanding! Have your legs recovered from all that Bog walking?

Thanks for sharing & congrats to you and your Son!

Pretty impressive performance! The only TTSX I have captured was a 168 TTSX from my 30-06 in my eland. Looks pretty similar to this one.

160g ttsx in the 338 WM at 3200 fps shoots very tiny groups, IMR 4350, Rem 9 1/2, .050 jump.

Never recovered one in deer and hogs.

When it comes to the TTSX, I think you can drop down two weight classes on a caliber and still get more penetration of a cup and core bullet.

I have a friend in Flagstaff that hunts elk, bear, and deer with his 7 Mag using 120g TSX.

I have a 210gr TTSX load worked up. I would not be afraid to use it on anything, except Elephant, rhino and wooly mammoth. Now if I bumped up to a 225 or 250.....?



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