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When does that happen? Is it a time of year or a place? If I ever hunt nilgai I would like to enjoy the meat.

Thanks, Guy

I shot a couple crop damage deer with a 250 gr TTSX from my 375 H&H Mag loaded at 2800 fps. Shots were 150 and 160 yards, tight behind the shoulder with exits through the slats on the off side. Both dropped at the shot. Plenty of expansion, exits were the size of a golf ball.

I had similar experience with the 250 TTSX, though started @ 3130 mv. They were quite effective….looking forward to using my 270 LRX’s @ 3100. They should do pretty good also! memtb

They are fun to shoot at steel plate. When they are cheap enough:

They’re usually accurate.

They’re usually, “unusually” accurate! 😉 memtb

Used a 180 gr. TTSX to take a bull elk this last fall (my first) from a .30-06 at about 160 yards. Didn't go more than 5 steps after the first shot.

Don’t ya just love a story with a happy ending!

Have killed 4 elk the past three years with a 308 and 150 TTSX’s. All of them broadside shots from ~50 -120 yds (I’ve never had two broadside shots in a row on elk until now). All were exits with good exit holes.

Friend of mine who has been a copper bullet fan for a long time likes ETips better, because he thinks terminal performance is more consistent, but also says ETips can be more work to shoot accurately.

I’d like to get the classic quartering away shot on an elk to see how that bullet will work……..

I don’t think that you will be disappointed! memtb

Typical TTSX performance = bloody knife blade

When I bought a couple of rifles I tried TTSX bullets. The 300 Savage 99 (new to me) shot TTSX bullets more accurately than anything other bullet. But I ran out of bullets testing loads before season and I ended up using 159 grain Interlocks.
The 700 Mountain (new to me) & 700 Classic both in 7x57 shot TTSX bullets very well. So I took the 7x57’s out for whitetail. I had four doe tags. I was carrying the Mountain rifle. A group of 6 does walked out in the open approximately 275 yards away (range finding binoculars). I had sticks as a support and they had no idea that I was there. 3 shots and three does dead and without a step taken. As I was walking up to clean them another doe was running around, maybe 200 yards away: one shot and it dropped instantly.
All bullets left a good size exit hole. The first three -through the lungs, close to the heart. The last one a high shoulder shot. The last one hit significant bones.

I’ve not seen such performance repeated like that with any bullet, any rifle, and any cartridge. TTSX, will be tested in other cartridges, for sure.

Good shooting...but hell, you were shooting the 7x57... J.O`C would be proud.

At that range, probably closer to 2,000 fps, which explains the bullet performance.

While generally shoot the TSX, if impact velocity is going to be under ~ 2,200 fps, make sure to drive it through bone.




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That’s the only good thing I could muster up from my experience with Barnes so that’s all I added.

I love the LRX.

Sweet, appears to be good expansion. 👍 The performance that makes the Barnes TTSX’s and the LRX’s head and shoulders above most other bullets!

My only possible complaint would be…..they were not complete pass-throughs! 🤔 memtb

Of the nine, or so, deer and elk I've taken with the LRX, I've only recovered those two. Both were quartering away shots.

That should make you a “Happy Camper”! Pictures of that kind of performance are worth a thousand words. 👍 Those are some of the reasons I swear by Barnes Bullets.

There are some that had bad experiences early on and refuse to try them again…..it’s their loss! memtb

Almost all the recovered ones i have seen have been missing the petals