Barnes TTSX 185 gr

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Tim Neitzke

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Regular firearm deer season is comeing to a close Monday.
Been trying to find a donar deer to supply a friend some vension for the winter. Toteing the 338 Fed I had built a couple years ago,looking for first blood.

Tonight with a few minutes of light left, I found a volunteer .
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I let a 185 gr TTSX eat and boy oh boy, I could not wait to see what happened ! I walked up expecting a pencil in and out like all I ever hear happens. I held on the base of the neck and well...... Let's just say I did not have to cut the head off when I skinned it !
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Well crap another bullet I'll never get to inspect... dang it! How am I gonna ever know if the bullet failed ! ?
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Thanks for reading....
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Very typical book bullet failure. Oh wait, that was a story book I was reading.
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I like to think that was precision shooting on your part. Fire shot, Deer gutted, skinned, and cut up ready for wrapping paper.
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I don't know about your rifle Tim, but mine thinks the Barnes TSX bullets or match bullets. I'm trying to introduce it to a more common bullet, but it aint havin known of it.
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Congratulations and congratulations on helping out a friend.
 

Ya, my 308 Win., 130 gr. Barnes TTSX load always seems to fail. Saturday, I took a 50 yard high shoulder shot on a whitetail doe. 30 cal. hole in, 2" hole out, bang flop, and the dang bullet failed again, since it left a 2" exit hole, instead of exploding on the shoulder. The nice thing is it passed right under the spine, leaving the end of the loins, pretty, with no blood shot meat.

I shoot the same 130 gr. Barnes TTSX in a couple of 308 Win's, and a 300 WSM, and critters seem to fail to leave the area, when hit with one...Is that a bullet failure, too?
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I shoot 168 TTSX out of my 300 Weatherby shot a 6x6 last year at 826yards one shot front shoulder drt. This year shot a mt Lyon on my elk hunt 125 yards same 168TTSX bang flop. I shot a cow elk this thanksgiving at 638 yards same 168TTSX right behind the front shoulder ran 20 yards and down she went. I have yet to recover a barns bullett from my 300.
 
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Dad shot a monster muley this year with a 300 RUM odd angle bullet skimmed the back entered inside the offside shoulder turned right broke the neck and vaporized, we traced the wound track to the end of blood shot which was in the neck somewhere, have no Idea where it went. no exit in the skin, and the wound track dead ended at the trachea. I think it stopped in the tube and the stupid deer swallowed it. came out with the guts. I shoot a 6.5 creedmoor with a berger 140 vld, they don't bang flop, its more like bang, step, sleep. from 100-200 yards; pencil in no exit on the buck, pencil in on the doe and nickle out. had those processed due to warm temps coming; but i'm 100% certain that those bergers didn't waste any meat, the bags are almost as heavy as the deer where.

.308 ar-10 i run 150 ttsx's out of, might take that out for blood next year.
 
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