Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Is the tsx to hard??

Better ask Timmy if it will work, he is quick to expound on what he don't know....

I have seen about 5 failures with Barnes X bullets and one was a TSX that I shot a deer with at 100 yards, it was a classic double lung shot..I tracked a very meger blood trail for about 2 miles until the deer got in with a herd, so I had to give it up then I heard a shot and walked about 300 yards to a fellow that just shot a deer..He said it was wounded so he shot it.I helped him gut it and let him have it and thanked him..

My call on monolithics is when they work, they work wonderfully but when they fail, they fail miserably just like any other bullet, and I have seen them fail on plainsgame and deer size game..They always seem to work on big animals like Cape Buffalo and Bison..

That said, I know a lot of folks that swear by them and they have used them as much or more than I have, but we all go by our own experiences. I have never had a GS Customs Monolithic fail for whatever thats worth, but I betcha someone has..If its made by man it can and will fail..

The problem with bullets is too many folks place all their eggs in a small basket..If it works on half a dozen deer then its a perfect bullet and they show pictures to prove it..All thats fine but in fact it means absolutly nothing, it takes thousands of kills to prove a bullet and only time will tell which ones are the best.

One thing I am certain of is all bullets are judged by Nosler partitions, like it or not and everyone that has a favorite will tell you there bullet is better than a Nosler partition, and that says it all for Noslers.

To each his own and there are a LOT of good bullets out there today, much more than in my heyday with everything except maybe the old corelokt failed much of the time.

Woodleighs, Northforks, Hornadys, Speer, Swifts, GS Customs, Barnes, Nosler, Remingtons new corlokts..any bonded core or partition bullet is as good as a monolithic IMO, but that is argueable.

I have shot or seen shot probably on the order of 25 or 30 deer with the TSX over the last few years, and have seen several shot with the accubond. Not a whole lot of difference other than a lot of blood shot meat with the accubond. As to em not being accurate, nothing is farther from the truth in my experience. I have run em in everything from 33 down to 24 caliber, and they are a mighty good deer bullet with the right load. As to their BC's, last years deer(6 to be precise) did not seem to mind em being what they are. Shot one doe from stem to stern with one out of a 260 remington at a little over 200 yds and bullet was recovered in the offside ham and weighed 121 grns(More than when it was shot, weighed 120 grns out of the box). Shot a big ole non typical at about 35 yds with a 130 grn 270, and the old boy only went about 25 yds after the shot. Shot another doe at a lasered 275 with the 270 and a 130 TSX and she went about 10 feet and fell over. 2 years ago, shot a 8 ptr at a lasered 315 yds with a 140 TSX out of a 7mm wsm, dead right there. and it goes on and on with REAL WORLD experience with em. I have seen with my own eyes what they will do, not read a bunch of drivel on the internet about how evil barnes TSX's are. As Steelhead says "Knowing trumps guessing.......... "

I don't know, I've seen 50 critters killed with the TSX, how many more do I need to not be guessing any longer?

But let me move to Anchorage, and I instantly become "Lord of Death".

That means [bleep] down here.

Following Ray's statement, those that ain't used them at ALL and pass judgment are golden?

Yep, Anchorage, that's where I'm at.

Trust me Tim, I've lived in TN and I KNOW that ACTUAL EXPERIENCE don't mean [bleep] down there to pass judgment.

What a grand world you live in.

Tim are you getting mad?
and will cast bullets work on Radovan Karadzic?

My experience with them was pitiful. Poor accuracy.

My experience with custom Hart and Krieger barrels that shoot incredibly, would not be able to stay here if only fed Barnes.

Its that bad.

So why even consider the value of the hardness?

But you gave your opinion to a guy about them concerning GAME killing abilities.

Stay on point Timmy.

If you enjoy using them I`m happy for you.

I will not spend another dime on Barnes products.

I`m all the way on point, as the money I earned by a rich guy who was pissed at Barnes found another who agreed.

Slow down on the Crown and rethink my story of the one who hired me.

This is like talking with my brother's kids.

SOOO,, since we are no where near as great a gun guru as you are, how then do you explain us mere mortals being able to get em to shoot inside an inch and kill critters with em, when you the gun and hunting expert, cannot get em to work in your guns, what does that say? Hell, I can get em to go inside an inch easy with a crappy,inaccurate, ugly ole Kimber Montana long action.

Lucky..........

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And you are the middle one.

Older sister, and younger brother.

Cigar!