Anybody reloading the Barnes TSX Bullets?

[boneaddict]

Intresting.   I wonder how long it will be before we have to use all copper.

[WDFW-SUX]

Most of my rifles have only ever had Barnes bullets in them.  I think your problem has to do with your sizing die rather than the one you use to seat the bullets.  Im talking about RCBS dies.  The triple shox bullet is the best bullet period end of story.

 

[Ray]

This did not have anything to do with the expanding ball on the sizing die as much is it does have to do with reworking the overall length on copper bullets with grooves on the side. Mystery was solved about 2 posts ago.

[jackelope]

i don't reload, and don't have a clue what most of you guys are talking about, but barnes tsx is all i shoot in my deer/elk/yote rifles too. good stuff for sure.

[high country]

are you de burring your necks? the barnes are pretty soft and do gall if the neck is not chamfered. I have loaded at least 2k barnes x in .257 in my 2bit and roy.

[Ray]

I was not deburring the necks. I figured brand new brass would be fine. I've found that the copper bullets are high maintenace  in this regard. Although people swear by them I am not sure I will reuse them based purely upon the extra amount of care I have to take to get these done right. 

[boneaddict]

I don't think you would have to de-burr factory brass.   People swear by them.  I'm shooting lead until the fat lady sings, or Hillary gets elected, whichever comes first.

[Intruder]

No problems w/ TSX in my 300.  Been loading them for 3+ years.... Hornady dies. 

I've never done this but I've heard some guys put a slight crimp on their reloads to prevent recoil from moving the bullets when the cartridges are loaded in the magazine.  Not sure what I think about that but it seems like it may be feasible... may be worth looking into.   

[Slenk]

I don't think you would have to de-burr factory brass.   People swear by them.  I'm shooting lead until the fat lady sings, or Hillary gets elected, whichever comes first.

New factory brass needs to be de-burred. I hope the fat lady never sings in Washington. And also that Hillary never gets elected.
Slenk

[Ray]

I'm not convinced by any stretch the deburring brass has anything to do with the matter here. I would agree that what intruder is probably a lot closer to what needs to be done if you ask me. Hence my original post talking about the  Lee Factory Crimping Die...

[AWS]

I justed checked a .25 cal expander ball (Redding) and it to was .255 and my Barnes and Sierra .25 cal bullets both miced .257.  If your expander ball is actually .257 that leaves you with zero neck tension on the bullet and they will be loose.

AWS

[Ray]

I'm not sure if some of you fellows have read my response earlier. I said that this only happens when I resize it more than once and thus seems to strip the copper off by scraping the side of the brass. So therefore it doesn't happen on every round. Making sure you see that again. 

[AWS]

If your stripping copper off one side of the bullet then you do need to chamfer the inside edge of your neck mouth, done durring the deburring process. It will allow the bullet to slide into the case with out scraping copper off the side of the bullet.  RCBS makes a VLD deburring tool with a 22degree angle to ease the  entry into the case even more and cause less dammage to the bullet.

AWS

[Ray]

Well I did have a deburring tool and used it last night but it didn't seem to fix the problem for me in that situation. I tested it just to see. Maybe I don't have the exact one  you speak of. I'll check it out next week. Thanks AWS.

[Guy]

Ray - I just read the post. Have been happily loading and shooting 100 gr Barnes TSX bullets from my .25-06 Rem 700 for three years now. They've proven to be accurate, deadly on mule deer, and easy to load. I'm running them at 3340 fps, over a reasonable charge of H4350.

Let me know if you're having any trouble getting them to shoot well - I may have be able to help. They're quite a bullet, and they ought to be for the price!

Regards, Guy