Guess the crap bullet?

[Biggerhammer]

I agree BH and if I remember the ranges when you first posted this, you did not have high velocity any longer. In my opinion the range was excessive for a 243 with any bullet. I think I remember 290 and 345 yards?? I love my 243 but it is a 250 yard deer gun max. for my ethical use. A wonderful 500 yard coyote gun tho.
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Carl

I attempted to take a Antelope at 700 yards with a .243 Winnie once. Made the hits with a very accurate rifle the deal was closed shortly after with a 25-06. The .243 was not up for the task. Even with solid hits. It may have been but we didn't give it the time to find out. It was all over in a minute.

Bang, Bang....... BOOM! FLOP!

[carpsniperg2]

I have only recovered 1 bullet. It was 92% weight if I remember right and opened nicely.

[JLS]

I've shot a lot of critters with the untipped TSX.  I've recovered a lot of them from my .338-06, as they always stick right under the hide on the offside.  Every one of them performed exactly as advertised.  Same with the 30-06, I recovered several of those.  All mushrooms with about 95% weight retention.  I haven't recovered many from my .243, but the few I have also mushroomed well.

With the .243 I've killed elk at 250, mule deer up to 350, and antelope at about 425.  Flawless performance on all.  Sorry you guys haven't had good luck with them.

[Biggerhammer]

I have only recovered 1 bullet. It was 92% weight if I remember right and opened nicely.

92% is great! Even with the Accubond shedding more weight they are true performers. Until the Accubond came out I was a die hard Ballistic Tip guy. Even in the big magnums due to the fact that we hardly shot anything in the open country over here under 300 yards. Past 300 the bullet had bled off enough velocity so as to,perform well a not fail and under penetrate like I have seen the BT's do at point blank. The 140 BT out of a 7mm Magnum being a prime example. Under 200 yards it was flat coming apart. 200 and beyond we always found them perfectly mushroomed on the off side under the hide. I and several friends killed allot of Mulies with the 140 BT/ 7 Mag combo. Now with the 140 Accubond I would have no reservations about point blank shots.

My brother shot a Mulie at 30 feet tops point blank head on chest shot with a 140 Accubond from a .270 WSM. That bullet traveled the full length of the deer and was under the hide at the back of one of the hind quarters. 70% weight retention and mushroomed perfectly. Now that's a bullet and that .270 WSM had some SPEED ON IT! 

[snowpack]

Yeah hammer, I guess I should've added some more.  I agree that the TSX works well for the small calibers at closer ranges when they still have the really high velocities.  That design of bullet seems (to me) to be real picky about its optimal velocity.  I don't care to shoot past a range with TSX where I don't suspect my velocity to still be above 2700 fps.  the smaller calibers tend to just slow down so much so quickly, I avoid it in them. 

[carpsniperg2]

I have only recovered 1 bullet. It was 92% weight if I remember right and opened nicely.

92% is great! Even with the Accubond shedding more weight they are true performers. Until the Accubond came out I was a die hard Ballistic Tip guy. Even in the big magnums due to the fact that we hardly shot anything in the open country over here under 300 yards. Past 300 the bullet had bled off enough velocity so as to,perform well a not fail and under penetrate like I have seen the BT's do at point blank. The 140 BT out of a 7mm Magnum being a prime example. Under 200 yards it was flat coming apart. 200 and beyond we always found them perfectly mushroomed on the off side under the hide. I and several friends killed allot of Mulies with the 140 BT/ 7 Mag combo. Now with the 140 Accubond I would have no reservations about point blank shots.

My brother shot a Mulie at 30 feet tops point blank head on chest shot with a 140 Accubond from a .270 WSM. That bullet traveled the full length of the deer and was under the hide at the back of one of the hind quarters. 70% weight retention and mushroomed perfectly. Now that's a bullet and that .270 WSM had some SPEED ON IT!

Still like my partitions and they have killed a lot of critters for me but they are nothing like my accubonds. In my mind the 270wsm and the 140 accubond is one of the best loads/rifles out there. I run accubonds/btips and etips in almost all my rifles. I run sierra in a couple and hornady in a couple but the majority of the boxes on my bench say nosler. I have recovered more then a few accubonds and they all seem to be in the 65-75% range. Which is great on the lighter skinned animals and it dumps tons of energy into the animals. The only thing I don't like about them and the btips are they blood shot like crazy. Btips of course more but both can ruin some meat. Yet the killing power on them in amazing. I just picked up some 125g'ers/30 cal to load up for the blackout. I am going to have someone shoot a deer with that load this year!