Barnes Trpple Shock X-Bullet? I'll stick with the Accubond, thank you.

[Biggerhammer]

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that a bullet was recovered with such little damage? I suspect serious yawing, lack of stabilization or else there is more to the story. Did the entrance look like a keyhole?

I agree with this.  The fact that they were recovered is very telling.  TSX that mushroom typically are pass throughs.  5 animals taken with them in our family, one recovered on the far side of an elk.  In all cases devastation lay in their wake.

     Just for comparison's sake, I had an accubomb pencil through a whitetail's chest from 150 yards.  400 yards of tracking later we found it.  Two .277 holes.
I decided to trade up to the Barnes.

     TSX like to go fast, and not have their noses damaged prior to impact.
For two to be recovered looking like that there is WAY more to this.

Wsmnut

We have shot Mulies with a .270 WSM and a 140gr Accubond at point blank(20 yards). Facing head on, impacted center of the chest, traveled the length of the deer and was under the hide at the rear of a hindquarter. Perfectly mushroomed and that bullet was hauling ass. Accubomb.. Ha, Ha.

[JohnVH]

your guys pet names for eachother is so cute!   
   
I have yet to recover a TTSX, they always go all the way through and leave a huge hole. They make a mess out of antelope. wish I took more pics!  One doe I took at 305yds was facing me at a little angle, it went in the chest, came out behind the ribs and took all the guts out with it, bullet did all the work for me. 

[Biggerhammer]

your guys pet names for eachother is so cute!   
   
I have yet to recover a TTSX, they always go all the way through and leave a huge hole. They make a mess out of antelope. wish I took more pics!  One doe I took at 305yds was facing me at a little angle, it went in the chest, came out behind the ribs and took all the guts out with it, bullet did all the work for me. 

I like the pet names.

[Curly]

My first thought was that the bullets were going very slow by the time they hit their target at over 200 and 300 yards, but then if they were going that slow, there would have been some error in loading (not enough powder) and then they likely wouldn't be accurate and those shots would have been impossible to hit the target. 

So, I think it's got to be a case of a bad batch out of the factory.  I'd send pics of the recovered bullets and the rest of the bullets from the batch back to Barnes and ask them for an explanation.  That is really unacceptable.

I witnessed bullets similar to that recovered from an elk about 20 years ago (shot from a .264 WM) and I thought Barnes had fixed the problem with those early bullets.  Now I see this and even though I've killed several deer and elk with .308 TSX, I'm going to have to rethink using Barnes after I use up my current supply of TSX.  Now that Nosler has the E-tip, I think I'd give them a shot before buying TSX's again.  (Or I may try the Accubond)

[Rick]

Any bullet can fail. I had an accubond  come apart a couple years ago. The recovered bullet looked like a wadcutter. No mushroom at all.

[Bob33]

I've killed 29 animals with TSX or TTSX bullets, and recovered one. I've not experienced a bullet failure of any sort that I'm aware of, although since 28 of the 29 are still orbiting the globe, the jury may still be out

[WSU]

I have killed 2 animals with accubonds.  One was a bear that I shot in the head at 20 yards and did not recover the bullet.  The other was an elk at about 50 yards and the bullet completely exploded.  It was a broadside shot that destroyed both lungs, but the bullet definitely exploded.  No exit and no bullet in the critter.  Does that mean accubonds suck?  Apparently not if you ask most everyone else.

[Biggerhammer]

I have killed 2 animals with accubonds.  One was a bear that I shot in the head at 20 yards and did not recover the bullet.  The other was an elk at about 50 yards and the bullet completely exploded.  It was a broadside shot that destroyed both lungs, but the bullet definitely exploded.  No exit and no bullet in the critter.  Does that mean accubonds suck?  Apparently not if you ask most everyone else.

I'll take that elk hit you described any day over a pass through.

[WSU]

Either works fine as long as it is broadside and I shoot it where I'm supposed to.

[ing]

I've had similar results in a 7mag with 160's.  Pencil holes.  Not a fan.  I agree on accubonds.

I shot a buck about three years ago with my 25-06 with 110 grain Accubonds.  Pencil hole through one shoulder and a pencil hole out the other.  That's alotta bone to shoot thru without making the bullet expand.