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243, 3100 mv, 240 yds, DRT..dead right there/in tracks.

Broke both shoulders/clipped bottom spine stopped just in hide offside.

Looks like that one worked as advertised!

It's even got the shiny "halo" of light on it

What is the weight on that hog?

Nice shot, nice boar too!

1B

I am impressed!

Can't be. Those things just pencil on though.

I think the photo has been touched up. Look how clean his hands and nails are.

Great looking hog photo too!

Thanks for the pictures and info.

HA! I may well have had surgical gloves on but you are right and that was after skinning no doubt, that I did....nasty smelling WHEW! Thanks to my Son for finding the bullet as I never expected to find it inside and assumed it exited, but he looked closer I guess.

Jordan, I guess I got lucky on my shot, Barnes used to put "Halo's" on bullets in the past...Lol.

Took that in fall 2006 but hear lots of rumbling If/Will the Barnes....so I thought I'd post my results. I was sold INSTANTLY.

Now, weight, I might surprise some when saying the scale showed 160 lbs. Looked bigger to me. Are built tough for sure, heavy gristle plate, that can slow a bullet down.....I truly had complete confidence in that 243 because it was a Barnes in chamber, anything else, I might have doubted. I would not hesitate with a 95 B tip as they seem to penetrate well from all accounts, but with this Copper bullet, you KNOW it will do it from any angle. At least I believe it can w/in any reasonable range with shooter steering it thru vitals.

Oh, retained weight IIRC, was still 85grains. If not it's 84 but it seems it was a full 85. I bet that's more than a 6mm Partition has left....

Future plans are to use more of the 85s when using a 6mm BR. It will spin them about the same speed as the short bbl 243 above did, 3100.

Great pics.

I've had the same results on deer, with the same penetration and more - from itsy bitsy teeny wheeny 53 grain X's out of my .22 CHeetah. Isn't great when a bullet works the way it's advertised?

Very nice!

That bullet looks like ad copy for Barnes!

Pretty tall order to recover one - glad y'all found it.

I couldn't stop one out of my 243 on a 250-275lb Axis buck - through both shoulders and all I found was a petal in the off shoulder.

DJ, you just gotta love those photos, beautiful animal/trophy and great sons too. Looks like you are getting them ontrack.

My son has gotten into video games heavily and airsoft guns, so when someone sent this game/link to me I put him on it. Boy bested my score first go round! Your boys might get a kick out of it.

http://www.versuscountrybagamonsterbuck.com/

Great pics!

How does a Texan (or a non-resident - for that matter) hunt those things? Are they free-range, do you need a draw, a regular licence?

They are a stunningly beautiful animal? Do they taste like native deer?

Yours,

They're free range in some areas and there are no regulations on them as they're an exotic. As a result, you can hunt them all year, day or night no rules other than you need a valid hunting license etc. They are perhaps the best tasting meat I've ever eaten. Milder than whitetail. I've eaten a bunch of different wild game including a number of different exotics and Axis taste better than any other game I've eaten. They also have a natural oil in their skin which prevents them from getting any sort of pests, so no ticks, mites or any of that sort of stuff. On top of all that, the biggest bucks taste just as good as a young doe.

btw, I think they taste better if they're shot with an "X".

Thanks, BR. I'm really blessed - they're great little runnin' buddies, and would rather hunt than eat!

They'll love that game! Not sure I'll be able to peel them off the computer if I get them started...grin...unless we've got some real stuff to shoot!

Didn't mean to hijack - just throwing in some more 85 TSX experience with the photos to bring it to life!

DJ

Concur with Mtman on the axis tastiness - best I've had except perhaps for blackbuck - it's real close. You can hunt them year round, although I'm not sure you can shoot them at night like hogs and varmints. Not saying for sure, just thinking it may not be OK...

There are lots of free range axis in Texas these days - that's what he was - just showed up on the place where I was raised. We've only seen them there a handful of times, but I'm glad we crossed paths. I'd seen him a month earlier while hauling horses to the vet, and couldn't do anything but watch him, but I stoked my 243 with X's just in case, and sure enough we saw a doe way up a draw when dove hunting and snuck back to the truck for the 243 and caught the big boy at a waterhole.

DJ

DJ
Your lil pards look armed and dangerous for sure.
Lucky you got to that Axis 1st huh. :>)
Thats a real nice Buck you got there hearty congrats.

Works for me also!
GWB


240 weatherby, 85 gr. tsx. 1 pig DRT

I am pretty sure it was Ross Seyfried who wrote - about 20 or more years ago - that the X bullet made his 30/06 think it was a .375 on a feral donkey shoot in Australia. This thread, and my experience with a myriad of animals and calibers in Africa, Alaska and the Western USA mirrors his experiences. I have used the X series in calibers ranging from 85 and 90 grain .243 bullets in a 6mm and 6mm/284 up through and including 350gr and 400gr 416 Rigby and 450gr and 500gr in 458 Win and Lott. The Barnes line of X, XLC, TSX and TTSX bullets completely challenge our old idea's of what was needed or appropriate for any said big game animal. Rifle calibers that were once thought marginal for big game are now known to be quite excellent with this bullet in the tube. As another benefit, we are no longer needing to get beat up by heavy bullets in large calibers to do a good job on large tough non dangerous game animals. I still DO shoot my old fire breathing belted magnums but it is because I WANT to, not because I have to. I will be trying a Barnes 130TTSX at 3550 fps in my recently inherited FN 30 Belted Newton rifle this fall on Elk and Black bear. I have little doubt about what the results will be if I am blessed with a decent shot opportunity.

Great thread and terrific photo's everyone. Love the piggy shots

S'man

Really beautiful Axis, and the hogs were nothing to sneeze at either. +1 on the tastiness of Axis, really good, also absolutlely love Nilgai
My own TSX/Pig story was the biggest warthog Ive ever seen, in Namibia last year,53 gr. TSX from a .22-250,between the running lights from less than 50 yds. DRT.
Love the TSXs in everything...
Thanks for the pics, but d%&n you, now I want to go shoot a nice Axis!
Ingwe