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Nice. Details, where was it hit, where was it recovered. I was considering the 168gr TTSX for my .300 WSM but ended up with the 175gr LRX.
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How are those LRXs working in your WSM? I just got one and was planning on experimenting with both.
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I trying to angle it in between his neck and his left shoulder to drive it diagonal through his chest. Instead it appeared it missed the neck vertebrae and went through his neck and down his right side. Bullet was found under the hide just in front of the right hip. My error (he was angled more than I thought?) or he turned as I fired.
That shot definitely hurt him. I missed the next shot as he ran into the willows, just clipped some hair (I have to stop catching empty brass in the air). He stopped broadside behind a screen of willows. I shot him behind the shoulder and it was liked his legs were jerked out from under him. He fell towards me flat on his side.
Complete pass through. The blood spray on the off side was most impressive. 5ft wide V-shaped spread. Even Gil Grissom would have been impressed with that blood spatter!
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Yep, I'd say picture perfect.
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Pretty cool! Seems it overpenetrated
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That thing looks model perfecto to me! My friend Brad from here has one that if I recall right was a 168 TSX and he recovered it from an absolutely gorgeous bull and it looked pretty much the same as I recall.
Hmm...the 168 Berger shoots best of all in my Montana .308 I may need to try this one just cause.
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Looks like the bullet performed great. Me personally prefer broadside double lung instead of neck shots. One shot this way and they are down!!! No meat damage either.
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You can even tell which way the bullet was spinning (RHT).
I have some of the exact same bullets that I want to try in my .30 Gibbs and .30-06.
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There's nothing sexier than an expanded TSX/TTSX bullet. I have taken many game animals with the TSX bullet and, just today, sighted in my .30-06 with the 168 gr TTSX bullet. Awesome bullets...
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Picture perfect, imo. I'm hunting with that bullet in my 300 RUM next year. Love those TTSX bullets...
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Well, you've made me wanna try TTSX. Picture perfect.
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If/when they do that every time, they'll be onto something great. As someone else said, there's no bullet quite as 'sexy' as one of these when they end up like that. 'Course, it also helps when the recovery of the pretty bullet matches the quick and easy recovery of the critter involved.
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If/when they do that every time, they'll be onto something great. As someone else said, there's no bullet quite as 'sexy' as one of these when they end up like that. 'Course, it also helps when the recovery of the pretty bullet matches the quick and easy recovery of the critter involved. I've only shot 5 critters with the Barnes .30 cal 168 TTSX. I used them in South Africa last July and were shot from my .300 Weatherby. We only recovered 2 bullets. One looked exactly like the one AB posted, the other was the same without one petal. Easy recovery of all critters. Previously I had shot 4 North American critters with the 168 TSX and all bullets were complete pass throughs, including a broadside, behind the shoulder shot on a 5x5 bull elk that also had a blood spatter on the snow like AB described. I also used 300 gr TSX bullets on one African hunt and 270 gr TSX bullets on another, these were shot from my .375 RUM. I shot 6 animals with the 300 gr TSX bullets and recovered one from a Buffalo, and 13 animals with the 270 gr TSX bullets, and only recovered two. The only animal that we had to track was a Bontebok that I hit too far back. The recovered .375 cal TSX bullets were identical to the .30 cal TTSX bullets that that I recovered last July:
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I've used Barnes monos in 22, 6mm, 7mm, 30, 338, 358, 375, and 458 on a variety of critters from less than 100 to well over 1000 pounds. I can certainly appreciate what they do when they work 'picture perfectly'. I also know that they don't always do that, especially in the ordinary hollow point versions. I do hope that the tip will help them excel where they have sometimes failed to work as they are intended in the past. I have used both 150 and 180 grain in 30 caliber but have never recovered any - not even a double pass through on caribou with a 150 years ago. I have recovered several of the 338 and larger slugs. Like everything else, they work good when they work well.
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Here are my two recovered 168 TTSX, both from a 300 wsm, 70 grains of H4831sc. The one on the left is from a 225 yard shot on a Red Haretbeest, the one on the right is from a 182 yard, facing shot on a black springbok. (I too was amazed the ~70 pound animal kept that bullet inside)
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I started using the tsx's in 2004 and every year it keeps giving me those same results. Here is a 168 30 cal from 6x6 bull, and 225 .338 from a bear. They have made stuff fall over real well for me.
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One of the best attributes of the Barnes, is that there is very little bloodshot meat. You literally can eat up to the hole, unless there is bone fragments in the meat.
My limited experience with the Partition is that it can destroy an awfull lot of meat.
I choose Barnes.
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