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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: yorketransport on May 23, 2015, 11:35:39 AM

Title: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: yorketransport on May 23, 2015, 11:35:39 AM: While eating up some of the pepperoni from last years buck I bit into what I thought was a bone fragment.

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Anyone know what it is? I figured it out as soon as I saw the color. :chuckle:

Andrew
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: jackelope on May 23, 2015, 11:41:46 AM: Tip of a Barnes bullet?
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: HntnFsh on May 23, 2015, 11:42:41 AM: Quote from: jackelope on May 23, 2015, 11:41:46 AM
Tip of a Barnes bullet?

I was also thinking the tip of a bullet!
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: yorketransport on May 23, 2015, 11:49:17 AM: Quote from: HntnFsh on May 23, 2015, 11:42:41 AM
Quote from: jackelope on May 23, 2015, 11:41:46 AM
Tip of a Barnes bullet?

I was also thinking the tip of a bullet!

That's it! I hit that buck in the neck with a 130gr TTSX from the 30 Herret pistol. I'm going to save that tip and add it to my collection of recovered bullets.

Andrew
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: Grizman on May 24, 2015, 08:06:59 AM: Just an interesting side note to your "unexpected find". In the late 80's, I shot a very nice Mule Deer buck in N. Idaho. When I skinned it at camp, I found the buck had two badly broken but healed ribs on his left side. Totally healed but very noticeable. In the ribs and meat around that area were several small pieces of yellow plastic. At the time, I think one bullet maker used colors to ID different calibers of bullets. I think yellow was .270. Animals are pretty tough!!
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: magnumb on May 24, 2015, 08:20:46 AM: I've seen that tip alot since the TTSX's were first introduced, but have never recovered one. I've loaded a ton ,however, and sent more than a few through several bucks. I load the 100gr. TTSX in my 25-06 and the 130gr. TTSX in my 270WSM.

I've never recovered either a TSX or any TTSX's out of several bulls and bucks, not even the slightest amount of any of those bullets. But I did find each bull and buck either DRT or just a few steps away...... :).

Good find and a great choice in bullets........ :tup:.
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: browney5er on May 24, 2015, 09:26:40 PM: Here's a couple TTSX's I've recovered from blacktail bucks. Both deer dropped in their tracks. Awesome bullets, 140 gr out of my .280. I scrubbed both bullets and weighed them on my powder scale and they both weighed just over 138 grains.
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: magnumb on May 25, 2015, 08:34:32 PM: Quote from: browney5er on May 24, 2015, 09:26:40 PM
Here's a couple TTSX's I've recovered from blacktail bucks. Both deer dropped in their tracks. Awesome bullets, 140 gr out of my .280. I scrubbed both bullets and weighed them on my powder scale and they both weighed just over 138 grains.

Great pics......I wish I could find some!

In all seriousness, it is possible that the bullets started out @ or right around 138grs (+/-).... ;) . I totally am a 100% believer in Barnes bullets and their quality and terminal effectiveness, so I'm not questioning their dedication to QC, but it is possible.

I am interested to know if you experienced much blood lost meat around the entrance holes. I ask because I have experienced the least blood shot meat using both the TSX's and TTSX's on both bulls and bucks as compared to what the results were for AB's, NP's, Scirocco's and others........by far!

Just wonderin' about your results......thanks!
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: Old Man Yager on May 26, 2015, 06:44:06 AM: I had an unexpected find one year in a Blacktail buck. So I shoot my first decent Blacktail when I was about 21-22 years old. Pretty excited to say the least! So we get it home and hang him, and I realize I did a poor job when I gutted him, still got the heart and some other parts in there. I get everything out, and drop it on the garage floor, and I hear this wierd rattle sound. I picked up the heart and shake it , and my bullet falls out on the floor! Felt like a dumb ass for not cleaning him out better, but it was cool to find that bullet in there. I still have it :chuckle:
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: browney5er on May 26, 2015, 07:39:51 PM: Quote from: magnumb on May 25, 2015, 08:34:32 PM
Quote from: browney5er on May 24, 2015, 09:26:40 PM
Here's a couple TTSX's I've recovered from blacktail bucks. Both deer dropped in their tracks. Awesome bullets, 140 gr out of my .280. I scrubbed both bullets and weighed them on my powder scale and they both weighed just over 138 grains.

Great pics......I wish I could find some!

In all seriousness, it is possible that the bullets started out @ or right around 138grs (+/-).... ;) . I totally am a 100% believer in Barnes bullets and their quality and terminal effectiveness, so I'm not questioning their dedication to QC, but it is possible.

I am interested to know if you experienced much blood lost meat around the entrance holes. I ask because I have experienced the least blood shot meat using both the TSX's and TTSX's on both bulls and bucks as compared to what the results were for AB's, NP's, Scirocco's and others........by far!

Just wonderin' about your results......thanks!
My brother and I both used to shoot Nosler partitions, great bullet good results but way more bloodshot meat. You can't beat Barnes and I agree I don't think those bullets lost any weight other than the blue tip. My brother has only recovered one from his .300 win mag and it was within one grain and it was a tsx.
Title: Re: unexpected trophy from 2014 buck
Post by: HntnFsh on May 26, 2015, 08:14:28 PM: Found these 2 Barnes Muzzy bullets in the bull I got this year. The first 1 is the 1 I killed it with. The second one was totally encapsulated in the forleg. Looked to be about a 250 grain bullet. I was shooting a 300 grain bullet.