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A bunch of these recently showed up at the local Walmart for a pretty decent price. I am curious how this bullet compares to the Barnes TTSX. Any experience with performance on game? I will mostly be using them on deer and am thinking of trying both the .30/06 and 6.5 CM.

I know there are some on here who dislike Barnes, but my results have been fantastic with them. I and the family have used them a ton with great success on whitetails in the 150 grain .30/06, as well as killing a few elk with the round. Also, have some experience with 80 and 100s in the .257 Roberts, 130s in a .270, 120s in a 7 mag. We shoot numerous cartridges and lots of different bullets, and truthfully, spending 95% of my big game hunting time on eastern whitetails means my experience is to put about any reasonable bullet where it should go and get out your knife. I have, however, become a huge fan of Barnes so if the Winchester bullet is similar, I might give them a try.

I think you will get good performance from them. Some of Winchester's bullets have a bigger tip or nose cavity for a bit more expansion. They will kill stuff very dead.

They will kill stuff very well, if you can hit it. I have never had 308 ammo shoot so poorly as these did. 8 inch groups at a minimum. I thought that something was wrong with my gun, so to check I shot 3 rounds of Norma ammo, that my gun likes, before adjusting anything and two were touching and the other less than an inch away. I then shot the rest of the box of copper impact and was back to all over the target.