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Another phone video of the .308 130 Barnes TTSX at 3100. This has become my go to choice.

Barnes 130 grain TTSX
H4895 48.0 grains
Browning X Bolt .308
Step-son’s first deer, shot at 250+ yards!

Nice video, great shot. I'm a TTSX fan, but it looked like a head shot and if we could shoot them there all the time any bullet would work and we wouldn't need the TTSXs. LOL

I used some factory Barns 130 ttsx ammo in 270 win to shoot a cow elk and a small mule buck. Both kills wrre fairly quick, but not much of a wound channel and small exit holes. I'm just glad they fell within insight because there wasn't much, if any blood trail. But the bullets did go through and through and killed them dead so I can't complain too much.

After some thought this sounds like the bullet for a 308 in a 14" barrelled Encore. Be Well, RZ.

.308 130TTSX .35BC @ 3150fps.....PBR on a 6" target.

http://www.shooterscalculator.com/ballistic-trajectory-chart.php?t=b4f67a13

tzone,JBM Ballistics has the chart. Just key in the B.C. of 350 and the drop of +2.5” at 100yds for the Barnes 130TTSX and it shows little one 3.0” drop at 300 yds.Killed a 8 pt at 100 yds this year quartering slightly toward me…hit him in lower neck just off left shoulder…dropped right there never took a step…head laying in a pool of blood when I walked up on him. Have killed deer way out there with that bullet and never have to think about holdover if anything just don’t shoot too high…still rising at pass 100 yards.

the Barnes 130gr ttsx is the 30 caliber secrets

The Barnes TTSX 130's from a .308 Win continue to provide consistent results. Had the chance to make a new short video while my wife was doing the shooting.

Shot placement was to the forward edge of the shoulder 1/3 down from the back. I was having her use that placement for a buck and she did it again on the pig. On pigs, a bullet to the base of the ear works nicely, but this placement certainly was effective. The bullet passed through.

Years ago, I had a TSX pencil through shoulder blades on a buck. He ran about 100 yards, which caused me to quit Barnes. About ten years ago, someone encouraged me to give the TTSX a try.

They have been a very different story consistently providing effective terminal results. The TTSX opens very fast. The TTSX and LRX have become my go to bullets.

Here is a buck shot through the shoulder by my wife with a .308 Win and the 130 TTSX (45.5 gr Varget and a F210). This damage from the TTSX is not pencilling through.

Entrance side:



Exit side:

I've been using the 130gr TTSX in 308/300 Savage since 2007

What's the max effective range of these bullets on deer you think?

212 yards is the farthest I have used it and that was DRT. Beyond 250 - 300, stepping up to a higher bc like the 168 or the 175 LRX would help with wind, which is more of an issue than penetration and energy with a .308 Win.