Barnes TTSX Rcovered Bullet

[buffybr]

I started using Barnes bullets when I made my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo hunt. I loaded 300 gr TSX bullets for that hunt and shot my Buffalo and 4 other plains game animals with those bullets.  All of those bullets worked great, but the only one that I recovered was from my buffalo.  All the rest were complete pass throughs.


On my next African hunt I loaded 270 gr TSX bullets for my .375 RUM.  I shot 11 animals on that hunt, the Barnes bullets worked great, and only recovered these 2 bullets from a Kudu.


In 2009 I got my first Weatherby rifle, a Vanguard chambered in .300 Wby.  The Barnes bullets worked so well for me in my .375 RUM that I decided to try them in my this rifle. I started with 168 gr TSX bullets, then went to 168 gr TTSX, and now I shoot 180 gr TTSX bullets in it.


My first hunt with that rifle and those bullets was an Exotic hunt in West Texas, then a couple of bull elk here in Montana, 3 hunts in Africa, and hunts in New Zealand, Azerbaijan, and Canada.  Accuracy has been good with all of those bullets.  Out of all of the animals that I've shot with Barnes bullets, I've only recovered 8 bullets, and all of them looked like the Barnes advertized mushrooms.

I used my .300 Wby on an Alberta moose hunt last September.  For my "sight in" shots when I got to camp, I put two 180 gr Barnes TTSX handloads into this old aluminum frying pan shooting prone at 170 yards.


 

[Grouchy]

Cool! 

[PARA45]

Those bullets are impressive.  Last year's hunt made me a believer, and plan on using them more often. 

 

[TexWeatherby]

Very nice. Great using an old aluminum frying pan target. You can hang them with the hole in the handle or if no place to hang it, just push the handle into the ground.

[buffybr]

Very nice. Great using an old aluminum frying pan target. You can hang them with the hole in the handle or if no place to hang it, just push the handle into the ground.

The problem was that the aluminum offers so little resistance to a Barnes bullet at .300 Wby velocities that the frying pan didn't show any reaction to the hits from either bullet.  I practice a lot and work on my reloads so that I basically expect moa hits at 200 yds.  I expected my first shot to knock the pan down, so after my first shot, my guide said that I should have seen the look on my face as I thought that I had completely missed the frying pan.

[Ridgerunner]

What advantage, if any, is there in the tipped TSX versus the TSX with no tip?

[Grouchy]

I go with whatever is cheaper and see no real differnce on paper or on game,

[224KING]

I think the reasoning is that the tip makes less drag going thru the air and helps with opening up petals at lower velocities

[.257]

I think the reasoning is that the tip makes less drag going thru the air and helps with opening up petals at lower velocities

+1
And the LRX has a larger hollow point to open faster at lower velocities

[Grouchy]

I have taken hogs with TSX and TTSX at my typical 40-50 yard shots and saw no difference in performance. I have loaded the LRX in my target rifles and got great accuracy at 200 yds. , the longest my range has. 127 gr.LRX and 280gr. LRX specifacally. 

[grizzly340]

I have a freind who shot a nice Caoe Buffalo in South Africa this fall. He usedcA 375 h & h with a 300 gr. TSX he shot it from the front and forgot to ask of they could recover the bullet. I asked him if he got to eat any of it while he was over there. He said yes we had the inner loins and it was very good. But he said he would have rather had the back strap.  He called the inner loins gut meat. Lol
Never heard that term but zi guess it's true. Still he's the only one I ever hears squawk about tender loins.

[buffybr]

What advantage, if any, is there in the tipped TSX versus the TSX with no tip?

I started using Barnes TSX bullets when I built my .375 RUM for a Cape Buffalo hunt.  Accuracy and performance was great on all of the animals, from a Chobe bushbuck to my Buffalo, that I hunted on that trip.

So 5 years later when I bought my first Weatherby, a .300 Wby Vanguard, I decided to try Barnes bullets in it.  I started with 168 gr TSX bullets, and accuracy and performance was good with them.  Then, while preparing for another hunt, I decided to try 168 gr TTSX bullets. 

The TTSX bullets were just slightly more accurate in my rifle than the TSX bullets were.  Performance on game animals was great with both bullets.

A few years after than, I thought that I'd  try some 180 gr TTSX bullets in my .300 Wby.  Accuracy and performance was also great with those bullets, so now those are my hunting bullets for that rifle.