GSSP;
Good morning to you sir, I hope the day is behaving for you down in your section of Utah and all who matter to you are well.
Way back in the ancient times or the early '2000's, I had a few things happen with the cup and core bullets I was using that I didn't care for.
Apologies to those who've viewed this photo over the years.
When our girls started hunting in the local mountains I'd ask them to break one or preferably both shoulder blades on the buck they were shooting and Barnes' bullets worked very well for that task.
The eldest daughter has been shooting the 130gr TSX # 26442 in her Swede since about 2008 if memory serves. Now to be honest we don't shoot stuff very far away usually, but on at least one buck I asked twice if she wanted to get closer. Her response was to shoot it, breaking a rib going in, a rib coming out and then blowing the big knuckle that joins the scapula and ulna together to bits.
All that to say, in her 20" Swede loaded to the fairly sedate velocity of 2658fps, we've yet to stop one in a local mulie or whitetail buck.
A wee bit before that, I started to fool with the 168gr BT #30844 in a .308 Norma. They're loaded to 3000fps so again not blistering speed.
The one the right is the only one I've recovered. It broke a couple neck vertebrae on a 3rd rack whitetail buck heading towards me at about 250yds. The bullet then bounced off a rib, took out part of the top left lung, went through a full grass bag and then the hind quarter where it lodged under the hide of the left butt cheek.
Anyways sir, way back when we found how they worked, we bought a few boxes and then between myself and a sharp eyed buddy, when he finds either of the TSX in a store, he picks up a box for us.
In my Swede this year I'm running the 120gr TTSX again, but mostly to see what happens more than anything else.
All that to say there are some of us out in the sticks still using the plain vanilla TSX and they're still working just fine for us as well.
All the best.
Dwayne