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Reviews and comments written for the Barnes TSX bullet. |
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| Have been using TSX since they came out. Recently loaded the 168gr TSX with 60.5 grains of RL19, Win Case, Federal 215M primer in my 30-06. One ragged hole at 100yd.
Fantastic!!! |
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by: Seb |
Date: 10/7/2009 |
| Rifle used: K95 Blazer |
Caliber: 30-06 |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I have shot numerous animals with Barnes solid copper bullets, performance has always been excellent. When people state that the bullets just pencilled through and the animal just runs off , I'm unsure what they mean. The animal would have to die for them to find this out. Over and over again whether the range is 20 or 400 yards the result is the same; calibre sized entrance wound and 3/4 inch exit from any angle with all internal organs liquified between the holes. |
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by: dt |
Date: 5/7/2009 |
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| Performance on deer sized game is somewhat poor. Obviously all passed through but with little expansion. Bullet better suited for large game, i'm sure it will put a hurtin' on elk, moose, ect...
I'm also having trouble getting my 100 yard groups under 1.5 inches. Nothing wrong with that but my rifle will touch 3 shots consistantly at 100yds. Folks at barns told me to try seating bullet 70 thousandths off the lands, no luck there either |
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by: Rifleman |
Date: 11/24/2008 |
| Rifle used: TC Icon |
Caliber: .308 winchester |
| Hunting performance: 2 |
Accuracy performance: 1 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I have shot this bullet ever seen it has hit the market through 2 rifles. a Winchester XTR 338 win mag and a Ruger M77 338 win mag and no other bullet even compares. The amount of knock down power is amazing. i have yet to chase a wounded animal while shooting this bullet. Shot a 6x7 bull elk last year at 745 yards raised about a 3 elk widths over him shooting a 225 grain bullet and i squeezed it off when i got back on him the bullet had just hit and he fell dead on the spot. bullet entered behind the left shoulder and was recovered in right shoulder. picture perfect mushroom and retained almost 100% of its weight.i will never switch to another bullet. Hope i got you wanting to try out this bullet because once you do you will never change back to your old bullet. |
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by: Eric |
Date: 7/30/2008 |
| Rifle used: Winchester XTR |
Caliber: 338 win mag |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I have shot this bullet ever seen it has hit the market through 2 rifles. a Winchester XTR 338 win mag and a Ruger M77 338 win mag and no other bullet even compares. The amount of knock down power is amazing. i have yet to chase a wounded animal while shooting this bullet. Shot a 6x7 bull elk last year at 745 yards raised about a 3 elk widths over him shooting a 225 grain bullet and i squeezed it off when i got back on him the bullet had just hit and he fell dead on the spot. bullet entered behind the left shoulder and was recovered in right shoulder. picture perfect mushroom and retained almost 100% of its weight.i will never switch to another bullet. Hope i got you wanting to try out this bullet because once you do you will never change back to your old bullet. |
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by: Eric |
Date: 7/30/2008 |
| Rifle used: Winchester XTR |
Caliber: 338 win mag |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Tripple shocked another bear. 165gr TSX 308 at 2700 fps. Small entrance hole very large exit. Hit the shoulder going out. Bear died on the spot. Great bullet! Off angle shot from back of ribs to shoulder through both lungs. |
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by: KenB |
Date: 6/23/2008 |
| Rifle used: Savage Model 16 |
Caliber: 308 Win |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Switched to Triple Shock because I shoot light fast bullets and they tend to blow up. I love the way these bullets stay togeather and continue to penetrate. I always get a nice exit hole with these bullets. They shoot almost as well as the most accurate bullet I can shoot, and get 1 inch groups at 200 yards. I can get .7 inch groups at 200 yards with a varmint bullet. So I rate the accuracy a 5, but it is my prefered hunting bullet. I use it in my wildcat, my 7MM Weatherby and my 25-06. |
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by: Robbin |
Date: 6/16/2008 |
| Rifle used: Encore |
Caliber: 25-06 |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 5 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I use these 180 triple shocks in my .300 wby through a 27" lilja at 3300fps. Shoots 3 shot .25 groups at 100meters. Have shot multiple 3 shot 3.5" groups at 700meters. One 2.5" pair at 1000meters. Bullets are good to about 700m and after that they don't really open anymore-poke holes in animals. Out to 700 work excellent and very accurate.
Dropped Roosevelt elk in his tracks this year at 280meters. Work just as advertised. Bullets like to be seated deep. Mine got very accurate at .140 from rifling. Overall, excellent bullet as long as it's used in it's designed velocity range.
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by: Tumbleweed |
Date: 3/27/2008 |
| Rifle used: Remington 700 Classic |
Caliber: .300 Wby Mag |
| Hunting performance: 4 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I have shot the Barnes Triple Shocks for the last 4 years and i absolutely LOVE them. I shoot them out of my 338 win mag in 225 grain with excellent groups on paper and in the field. I have shoot 4 elk with them one being an extremely large 6x7 bull at 724 yards and i shot once it hit the bull right in the front shoulders and dropped him on the spot. They have extremely good penetration and they mushroom beautifully and retain almost 100% of their weight. The pictures you see on the Barnes website are exactly what you get. Ill NEVER EVER shot another bullet. |
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by: Eric |
Date: 3/8/2008 |
| Rifle used: Winchester XTR |
Caliber: 338 win mag |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Shot a large moose with the 0.308 165gr TSX. The first shot went through the lungs just behind the shoulder. This bullet was full pass through and was not recovered. It looked to be about a 2” exit wound. The second shot was poor and hit the rear ham just above the knee, broke the rear leg bone then went through the front shoulder just above the knee. It also broke that leg bone. The bullet was recovered in the outside hide. That bullet weighed 164 grains and looks like the sales photos. Impact velocity was about 2400 fps from 308 win. These bullets are great. |
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by: KenB |
Date: 1/20/2008 |
| Rifle used: Ruger |
Caliber: 308 Win |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Myself and friends have hunted in Africa 6 times. We use Barnes TSX almost exclusively.
Have hunted everything from springbuck to Cape Buffalo. Accuracy in 7 mag, 3006, 375HH, and 416 Rem. has been excellent(1 MOA
or better). Performance on game has been
more than excellent. Not all kills were one shot but those are hard to come by on Cape Buffalo and poorly placed shots on African game can lead to multiple shot followups but never has a properly hit animal required anything more than an insurance shot.
May be too tough for a whitetail but definately the ticket for African game.
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by: Michael Biles |
Date: 1/6/2008 |
| Rifle used: Multiple |
Caliber: Multiple |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 5 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I used the barnes 160 grain 7mm wsm to take down my first moose ever he was a bull with a 54 inch spread. I shot him across a marsh at 342 yards i took one shot and hit him in the shoulder and droped him in his tracks. My dad has ben hunting for over 30 years and he was with me and he said he couldent belive what he saw and now we will never use any other bullet. |
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by: buck hunter |
Date: 12/3/2007 |
| Rifle used: browning |
Caliber: 7mm wsm |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I load 168 Barnes TSX for my Rem. 700 rifle in 3006 w/a 24" barrel. I use 62 grains of reloader 19 with federal 210 primers. This is good for about 2900 fps. Ive been getting 3 shot groups under an inch. Last deer season I shot a mule deer at 265 yards through the lungs. The buck dropped at the shot. The bullet passed completly through with very little meat damage. I am very happy so far with this bullet. |
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by: K Durham |
Date: 12/1/2007 |
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| Barnes TSX are the only bullets I use now. I have never recovered a single bullet, they pass through every time and leave two holes. They can be pushed to extreme velocities too. I have killed game from 50 yards to 300 yards, the design envelope for this cartridge is zero yards to infinity, so I guess there is no design envelope. |
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by: TRM |
Date: 11/20/2007 |
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| ive shot barnes for prolly 8 years now in alaska,from dall sheep at 180 grains from my .300 weatherby at 500 yards to brown bear at 50 yards with my .416 and my 500 S&W pistol for protection,ill never shoot anouther bullet tell the day i die they hold together and do what there suppose to do.and for me shoot quarter inch groups with my .300 weatherby,i live and die by barnes.
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by: rislunt |
Date: 10/1/2007 |
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| I use for big game hunting this bullet and it is phenomenal.In 30-06 I'm confident enough to put any animal in its tracks. |
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by: www.artemis-hunting.com |
Date: 6/29/2007 |
| Rifle used: BenelliR1 |
Caliber: 30-06 |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
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Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Shot a black bear at 30 yards with a 165 grain 0.308 Barnes TSX. The bullet entered the ribs behind the shoulder and passed through both lungs. The exit wound was impressive at about 2 inches in diameter. Estimated impact velocity was about 2600 fps. Shot from a 308 Win. The bear dropped like a rock. The bullet did exactly what it was designed to do. Excellent bullet. |
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by: KenB |
Date: 6/20/2007 |
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| Took a good cape buffalo bull in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe in June 06. 300 gr. bullet in a .375 H & H. One shot at 80 yards. Bullet went in behind the left shoulder and came to rest in the right shoulder. Perfect performance. Bull went about 50 yds before piling up. |
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by: Walter Harrison |
Date: 5/9/2007 |
| Rifle used: CZ 550 Safari |
Caliber: .375 H & H |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Chronographed at 3500 fps from a 26" bbl in my 270wsm killed several whitetail from 60 to 250 yards. Have not found a bullet yet, all complete pass throughs. On the bench it produces one ragged hole. Absolutely awesome bullet. No problem finding hit animals because they go straight down. |
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by: Southern boy |
Date: 3/26/2007 |
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| I have always been partial to the Partition in all of my years of hunting. However when I bought the 300 Win Mag, I could not get them to group well. Switching to the BarnesTriple Shock not only tightened up my group, but performed flawless on game. I have harvested 3 animals now with my Barnes load, and all of them have been one shot kills. First was a Alaska Yukon Mouse shot from 275 yards and exiting through the vitals. Secondly a Black Bear breaking through both shoulder blades and exiting. To demonstrate its long range accuracy, I took a Couse Deer at 427 yds dropping him right in his tracks. Barnes Triple Shocks are a truly amazing bullet. I plan on using them exclusively in all of my hunting rifles. |
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by: Elliot Weigel |
Date: 2/9/2007 |
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| I hunted with Barnes TSX this year but will go back to lead bullets next year. Shot a yearling bull moose in BC with the 200 gr. at 320 yards. Hit him in the spine just below the chin as he was facing me. There was no exit wound. Placed a $40 bounty on the bullet with the butcher but he couldn't find it. When the bullet impacted, there was a mist of fine "spray" on the water back in my direction, except for one larger splash. Could the bullet have bounced off? Probably not, but the bullet definitely went only half way through the vertebra. A mystery. I could get these 200 gr bullets to group nicely (at 3050 fps) regardless of weather conditions but not so with the 130gr loads (at 3800 fps). Seemed to me on cold days the groups really opened up. Also, I didn't like the overall performance on the whitetail and antelope does I shot in MT. Petals broke off and left blood shot meat that should have been unaffected, given they were all rib shots. On warm days they flew very well, though. Held 4 feet over one doe at 650 yards and hit her in the shoulder. Checked it on Google Map. My buddy used my rifle on a 300 yard head shot. Very clean. Overall, I'd say Barnes TSX can be very accurate, but inconsistant too. I won't use them anymore.
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by: Dan K. |
Date: 11/13/2006 |
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| I have been a partition type of guy for a long time and always got acceptable results with them and then one day I tried using some 140 gr .277 TSX's with my 270 WSM. Every animal I have shot with them has dropped in it's tracks except for one muley buck that ran about 50 yards before colapsing under a pine tree. I have used them on 4 elk and 4 mule deer so far and never recovered a bullet so far. But I do feel that they seam to work better in high velocity cartridges (over 3,000 fps) than in slower ones where they might not fully expand as well. |
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by: turner1978 |
Date: 11/6/2006 |
| Rifle used: winchester model 70 |
Caliber: .270 WSM |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I just got back from hunting last week with dt and we both shot a nice deer. Mine was a 375 yrd. shot through both lungs of a nice buck ... total penetration.
The TSX group nicely in both my .338 and in my daughter's 7mm-08. I'm a converted Partition shooter. No need to ever look elsewhere - accuracy, weight retention and easy to load. The what I like is the tips don't get mashed in my .338 clip like the partitions. |
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by: TK |
Date: 10/2/2006 |
| Rifle used: Tikka / Savage |
Caliber: .338 / 7mm-08 |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I just got back from an elk hunt today. On the first day i got to see the difference in bullet
performance between the barnes bullet and a winchester ct silvertip. I won't go into alot of detail but all we found off the silvertip bullet was the jacket,total penetration 7 inches, that shot was at 200 yrds with 180 gr. out of a 300 win mag. My first shot was at 300 yrds with 225 gr tsx out of a 338 win mag. The bullet entered the right hip and went up into the liver.My second shot went behind the right front shoulder and stopped under the skin on the left flank, from 70 yrds.Both barnes bullets retained 95% + of their wieght.The tsx's are very easy to load my load went .75 for 3 shots with 70 gr. of imr 4831,just play with seating depth after finding max. |
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by: s rowsom |
Date: 9/23/2006 |
| Rifle used: m70 winchester gaillard bbl |
Caliber: 338 win mag |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 4 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| excellent accuracy with minimal load workup in both 7mm rem mag and 338 win mag.cant wait to try them on game this fall. |
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by: dt |
Date: 9/10/2006 |
| Rifle used: browning a bolt |
Caliber: 338 win mag 7mm rem mag |
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Accuracy performance: 5 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| I have a Rem. Md700 BDL 30-06 that has shot OK at best 2" groups @ 100 with a full assortment of bullets, powder and primers and cases, finely I decided on trying the TSX in 168gr the gun is now a 3/4" shooter with IMR-4350 and Fed 215GM primers, I use this as my back up elk gun but now I have full faith in it if needed. |
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by: Huntducks |
Date: 8/8/2006 |
| Rifle used: Rem. 700 BDL |
Caliber: 30-06 |
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Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| 180gr
weatherby brass
Fed 215gm primer
3.725 AOL
3260fps
81.5gr H4831
.45" 4 shot group
26" barrel Weatherby Accumark
This is my load for hunting in Alaska!! Shot many animals with this load and all 1 shot kills!
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by: Magnus |
Date: 7/23/2006 |
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| I used nosler ballistic tips before.They come apart on me.I switched to tsx 130g deer after deer they have performed just like barnes said they would.TSX are very accurate to under 1/2 inch in my 270 wsm.
William |
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by: william |
Date: 3/9/2006 |
| Rifle used: savage 12fvss |
Caliber: 270 wsm |
| Hunting performance: 6 |
Accuracy performance: 6 |
Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| 130 grs. In todays magnum rounds we have seen and heard of to many bullets that blow up on close shots. These don't yet still perform at longer ranges. I took a nice 8 point at 140 yards, with no sign of bullet failure. The MV for my load is over 3200FPS and on target it was still estimated at over 3000FPS. No problem for this bullet. They are expensive for shoot paper though. |
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by: Erik Singletary |
Date: 1/21/2006 |
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Caliber: 270 Winchester |
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Rating is from 1-6, where 6 is best. |
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| Extensive testing included the 300 gr .375, and 450 and 500 grain .458 TSX bullets with African experience with the 300 grain .375 and 450 grain .458. These all tend to be more accurate and faster then the older plain X-bullets using the same powder and charge weights. Performance of the 300 grain 375 was excellent on Zebra and Wildebeast with the latter piling up with chunks of coughed up lung tissue around it after a 75 yard run with bullet striking medial of left shoulder on frontal quartering shot. The 450 gr .458 flattened to the shank and retained 3 of the four petals when fired into a Cape Buffalo shoulder at 15 feet. (Buffalo dropped dead 75 feet from initial impact point with a 100 yard hit by a 450 grain .458 banded solid). TSX smashed through the shoulder and traveled 4 feet to the rear of the stomach area (through a whole bunch of cud).
Killing power more than adequate and borders on spectacular in these calibers. Takes the worry out of having to be "close" if one has to track the wounded beastie. |
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by: R Bridges |
Date: 8/18/2005 |
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| I've started using the 180gr. Barnes TSX bullet for my hunting loads in my 300 Win Mag. I was imediately impressed with its accuracy. I have since taken two deer with this bullet, both instant kills where the deer just dropped when hit in the boiler room. I'm now trying this bullet in my new .300 WSM with good accuracy. I'm experimenting with the 168gr. and the 180gr. and seem to be getting sub-inch groups with the 168gr on a regular basis. I can't wait to try this out on my Black Bear hunt in Northern California this fall. |
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by: GSteinUSA |
Date: 9/9/2004 |
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| OUTSTANDING BULLET, after using the partition for years and not happy with the results from the last 3 elk, all shot dead square in the boiler room, one bullet even came apart when hit between two ribs, i bought the barnes triple shock bullets and the first three out of the gun were touching at 100 yards ( no load work )went to 300 yards and 1-1/2 inch group not a problem, i went on my spring bear hunt and tipped one over at 520 yards (leica ranged) it only took one bullet to put him down and out, anyone want to buy some partitions ? |
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by: killer john |
Date: 8/22/2004 |
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| I shot these in a Remington Sendero 7mm STW. My load was 82 grains of R22 and the velocity was 3613fps with no sign of pressure but make sure to work up to this charge. I shot a 3 shot group at 100 yards that measured .294 inches. I am very impressed with this new bullet and cannot wait to try it on some Game. |
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by: Kory |
Date: 3/3/2004 |
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| The 7mm 260gr shoots inch groups for me from my model 70 in 7wsm. My loads are with Rl-19 going about 2950 fps. I took a cow Elk this fall with it. the bullet destroyed the pelvis on the far side, and lodged just unde the skin. It didnt open at all, but the shot was 530 yards which probably explains it. |
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by: Mark Larson |
Date: 1/1/2004 |
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| Barnes fans should try this new Barnes bullet for accuracy.I have shot groups in the .2's and .3's with both the 168 and 180's,with 5 shot groups of 1/2 inch from my .300 Win.mag.Do not know how it will perform on game,yet. |
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by: Jim Hundley |
Date: 11/30/2003 |
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