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Wow, that's great Jeff.

Try letting an informative thread, be an informative thread.



Nothing further,
Travis

I had many problems and gave up on the Barnes bullets in the past. When the came out with the Triple Shocks with the grooves and a modified metal, I gave them another try.
My experience is that you can seat the TSXs out near the lands similar to cup and core bullets. The grooves help with the pressure also.
For rule of thumb, .030" off the lands usually works best with about all bullets for me. If not something close to that then I go to seating at one caliber and it ofter works adequate for most of my needs.
jmho
Tim

Can't say for the 7-08, but I have a couple 30-06s and a 300 WinMag and a 405 Winchester that shoot the TSX bullets real well. Don't know if I got lucky or not, but I found that 57 gr of H414 and a 168 TSX worked real well in my Tikka '06 and 47 gr of H4895 and a 150 TSX worked real well in my wife's Tikka '06. The 168 gr TSX and a moderate load of 75 gr of RL-22 works great in my 300 WM M1000 Browning. These were all first loads tried, and seated to SAAMI specs. I must live a charmed life, because getting those things to shoot in 3 different rifles, all I had to do was load the ammo and squeeze the trigger. The 405 does good with 58 gr of H4895 or some Benchmark and a 300 gr bullet at close to 2450 fps. Hang on!

From Jeff Obama?

What ya'll smokin today, Trav?

Touching the lands is always a good place to start. My only problem is magazine constraints.

i'm with you on that!

I ain't in the business of making you happy, podner.

Jeff-O says,

I ain't in the business of being informative , podner.
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Fixed it, yer welcome.

120 TSX with a near book max load of Varget shoots well (<1") in my 7-08 Kimber Montana seated to the top driving band (deep). It is primer sensitive and thrives on CCI 200s and hates CCI 250s. Remington 9.5s are OK and Winchester LR not so good.d Seating longer was worse in my rifle, including beyond magazine length and up to KISS.

So far no luck with up to 50 grains of Big Game, but I've loaded up some more to try. Fast but not as accurate as Varget for my combo.

120 TTSX don't shoot as well in my rifle and are gone now.

Just brought home a box of 145 gr LRX to try next. Great BC for Barnes.

Me niether. I shoot barnes/berger combo's in several 30's, and barnes/hornady combo's in 7mm..clean bore or fouled bore dont seem to make a difference in the way either of them shoot..which has always been very good.