Barnes LRX performance

[RadSav]

Just dropped a cow elk yesterday in her footprints at about 610 yards with 160 gr TTSX. Bullet went through the animal as usual.

160?  Did you get the Lapua or is that from a 340?

[mountainman]

Just dropped a cow elk yesterday in her footprints at about 610 yards with 160 gr TTSX. Bullet went through the animal as usual.

shot a deer several years back. Average 3 point. 338-378 Weatherby with the same bullet. Quarter size hole in and out. Used a TTSX in a 308 in Africa on 9 animals, ranging from Impala to Zebra  and Kudu. Only one Took a second shot, my first zebra running at 200 yards. All were perfect in and out bullet performance!

[Jaques Bonet]

I shoot the ttsx in my 338 Rum, killed Sheep and Mt Goat with these bullets this year. these bullets are made to penetrate. less hide damage. I also use them in my 7 WSM with good performance. Killed a six point elk with 338 tsx and Bullet mushroomed perfectly. Barnes was not a bullet that I was a fan of till the TSX, TTSX came along, if you are harvesting game at real short range than your Bullet might not be opening up, Just my opinion. stay with Accu Bond it will do a great job on most any thing you hunt. I like the Barnes bullet because it puts a hole clean through an better blood trail. Good Luck.

[Bob33]

I love the stories of "failed bullets" that were recovered from dead animals.

[mountainman]

I love the stories of "failed bullets" that were recovered from dead animals.

[kentrek]

I shot an killed a bull with a berger only to find a barns that looked like big hammers photos...the bull was walking perfect when I saw him


 


Back to reality I did find a berger once in a dirt backstop that failed to expand....it was a 700 yard target...all bullets can "fail"   especially if a Tikka shoots them

 

[predatorpro]

i have reloaded and shot sierras, nosler, hornady, bergers, speers...i have actually like them all.... i shot some barnes once....i will never put a barnes through any of my guns ever again...its the only bullet i hate...lol every big game animal i have shot with bergers have died within seconds...between me and my wife we have killed 6 deer and a bear in the last 3 years with bergers...and just about dropped everyone of them in their tracks...my personal opinion a bullet that makes it out the other side is a waste of that bullets energy...i prefer for a bullet to seperate internally and destroy organs and not ever exit...screw weight retention....i look at it as 100% energy retention by dumping all the energy into the animal....but thats just me...lol

[Biggerhammer]

Just dropped a cow elk yesterday in her footprints at about 610 yards with 160 gr TTSX. Bullet went through the animal as usual.

I've dropped does in their tracks with a HD2500 Chevy Silverado also.

[Hornseeker]

Do animals ever not drop in their tracks/footprints?

I guess I have seen a couple flip onto their back with their feet up... but dang, I still think their body was on their tracks or very close!

[Biggerhammer]

Do animals ever not drop in their tracks/footprints?

I guess I have seen a couple flip onto their back with their feet up... but dang, I still think their body was on their tracks or very close!

The only time they don't "Drop in their tracks" is if you shoot them with anything other than a POS Tikka, Barnes, Vortex combo. Or if you don't read enough about how big game animals are supposed to die instantly with Barnes bullets.

"Dropped in their tracks" I consider humor, as I consider "Tack driver" as total complete humor.


The difference between guys that shoot Accubonds and most guys that shoot Barnes is?

People can slam the Accubond's and I could care less. A guy makes a remark that isn't positive towards a single Barnes bullet and the Barnes cult snivels like a bunch of snake bit Girl Scouts.

[Wacenturion]

Some interesting reading..........

http://www.soarraptors.org/Documents/CopperBulletStudy.pdf

[Bob33]

Shooters fail much more often than bullets do.

Any bullet can fail. Every popular bullet make ever produced has failed. Sure, some have probably "failed" more often than others but it's usually the shooter to blame.

Too many hunters look at very small sample sizes to draw conclusions: "I shot a deer with brand x bullet and it was DRT"; "I shot an elk with brand y bullet and it ran off."

There are lots of bullets to choose from, with different performance characteristiscs. Choose the bullet you and your rifle like and go hunting.

[mountainman]

Shooters fail much more often than bullets do.

Any bullet can fail. Every popular bullet make ever produced has failed. Sure, some have probably "failed" more often than others but it's usually the shooter to blame.

Too many hunters look at very small sample sizes to draw conclusions: "I shot a deer with brand x bullet and it was DRT"; "I shot an elk with brand y bullet and it ran off."

There are lots of bullets to choose from, with different performance characteristiscs. Choose the bullet you and your rifle like and go hunting.

Agreed Bob33. A hole in the right spot kills game. Period. An Accubond thru a deers nose is obviously less lethal than an FMJ through both lungs..

But this discussion is a yearly thing  Nosler vs Barnes vs Hornady. Vs etc.......makes for fun reading on a winter's day!

[Biggerhammer]

Had a good buddy shoot Barnes for awhile, until he shot a Elk with a 165 Accubond. He divorced the relationship with the Barnes, which was a long time in the coming.

[Bob33]

Thanks to Al Gore, there is now scientific proof that Accubonds are better than TSX bullets.

Google "accubond failure" and you get 477,000 hits. Google "TSX failure" and you get 478,000 hits.

There you go. Thanks Al.