What do you all think of loading the 235 grain Barnes tsx in my .375 H&H for moose in Newfoundland next year?
I've never used Barnes before but hear good things about them. I do use reduced loads w/ 200 gr Sierra fp and 4759, great wt deer load in my rifle.at a whisker over 2200fps.

Thanks Steve

reo, Personally, I'd go with the 250 TTSX. You will still have good velocities, a better BC and sectional density. Overall, should be a better choice for big game!

I'm running 250's in mine...but only because Barnes won't make a TTSX heavier than 250 in the .375

Negatory! That bullet is designed for lighter game.
The 250TTSX would be a sure winner and a basic 270 grain Hornady will do everything you want on moose.

Personally, I think you should take a .270 Winchester. (Just kidding. You should take whatever rifle you like--but the quickest kill I've ever seen on a bull moose was with a .270 using those old-fashioned 150-grain Nosler Partitions. Have also seen them taken with the .338 Winchester, 9.3x62 and .375 H&H. And it was not a spine shot, but a plain old heart-lung shot. Moose aren't hard to kill, but as many people have noted, it sometimes takes them a while to realize they've been killed.)

I like the 250 gr TTSX as well. Shot my last two bull moose with that bullet in my .375 Ruger Alaskan.

"Personally, I think you should take a .270 Winchester. (Just kidding. You should take whatever rifle you like--but the quickest kill I've ever seen on a bull moose was with a .270 using those old-fashioned 150-grain Nosler Partitions"

When I was up there a couple years ago, the locals said they just used .270's, .308's & 06's with plain-Jane 150's. Only the younger "kids" used hot numbers like a 7 mag.

I felt over-gunned with my .338-06. Especially since all I got was lobsters to bring home.

Overkill and probably a heavier rifle than I'd care to pack around.

Moose are not difficult to kill if you can place a lung shot.

A big AK-YT bull has lungs near the size of a wash tub and your Newfie moose should be nearly as large.

One shot I hesitate to mention......should you really screw-up and have a wounded moose running away,
a pelvis shot can be very effective.....bad for meat but better than losing the animal. A broken pelvis will drop the bull
and there are several large arteries in that region also.

Calling bull moose in for a close shot is one of the more exciting hunts I can think of.

Good luck on you rhunt!

I shot a fat mule deer doe near dusk with the older 235X/375 around 120yrds one year. It must have hit a small branch before hitting her. I heard it "thoomp" when it hit. She ran off. I lost the blood trail at dark. Next AM I picked it back up and jumped her up after a 200yd railing job. I popped her with the '06 I brought. I had shot her on the right front shoulder which was torn away and hanging down, and a saucer sized hole was through the ribs with part of her lungs exposed, looked like leather! No exit, and I couldn't find the bullet either?! No idea what happened. Never saw anything like that, before or since. I never used it again, instead just went to the Winchester 270 FailSafe factory load. Later on some friends and I got to hunt in South Africa with that same load in two 375s. We shot a ton of plains game with them from Blesbuck up through Wildebeast and zebra , waterbuck. I admittedly like the 270 Failsafe (same same) in a 375 H&H and the 270TSX in a 375 Weatherby ( a friend I traded that rifle to has his clients use it on eland on an exotic game ranch in East Texas...."chills their doo-doo pronto" he says! Have a ball, whatever you choose!

My own choice is the 260 grain Accubond for everything - I bought enough to last my lifetime of hunting use - I do load some 235 grain blems for folks at the range who want to shoot a medium bore.

I do use Barnes in cartridges up to .308 when I might ask the rig to punch above its weight so to speak. Punching above its weight is not an issue with the .375 bore on thin skinned game.

Or even on thicker-skinned game. I have two friends who've killed Cape buffalo using .375 H&H's loaded with 260-grain .375 AccuBonds. One of the buffalo was a cow, but the other was a charging bull--which was not wounded beforehand. Neither had any problem, even with frontal shots on the bull.

I have been shooting the 260 Accubonds in my .375.. They have done a super job on moose and elk..

John - do you know where those bullets hit on the two buffalo?

I'm a big fan of the 260 Accubond after using it on several black bear - way too much rifle, but it worked!

Guy

What is your load? I tried this same bullet in the same rifle with RL-17, and I was uninspired by the accuracy.

This guy, stopped...



...this 235 TSX at around 150 yards when fired at around 2600 fps. (The bullet penetrated to the hide, then bounced back a hand's width back inside the bullet path. This was into the shoulder muscles; a second bullet landed further back and didn't exit either.)



This 300 Partition was fired into the shoulders of a wounded moose from less than 50 yards (from an H&H rifle).

I've seen Hornady .375 270 and 300 SPs stopped in much smaller animals. Cup and cores work great when you get lung shots; not so much when a big bone gets in the way; (too much ruined meat sometimes.)

As was pointed out, moose are not hard to kill. They can challenge good bullets however. Agree on the pelvis as a show stopper if need be. Stately monolithics have worked perfectly in messing things up without ruining meat. (May not work so kindly when lobbing copper/bronze from a 7mm mag or 300 mag however.)

I am a huge fan of the 270gr TSX in the H&H and the AI versions and have shot a couple boxes of them into game... nothing has stopped one yet.

The last few moose I have shot have been with the 168gr TTSX in the 30-06 and it is more than adequate...