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Berger Bullets vs TSX bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="LapuaMile" data-source="post: 574890" data-attributes="member: 30436"><p>I have historically hunted deer with the Barnes Tsx, and have loved everything except slightly excessive copper fouling. They group great if seated .15 thousands off the lands, and they stop deer like lightning. The hydrostatic shock effect is key in dropping the deer.</p><p></p><p>This year I decided to take my 175 grain Berger vld hunting rounds to the forest. Let me tell you that I regularly shoot .5" groups at a hundred with this load from my DT SRS... I've also shot them out to 1000 yards with sub moa performance through wind and variable conditions. These bad boys can fly.</p><p></p><p>Here's where my Berger vld love review breaks down... Hunting at close range. I discovered (unfortunately) on 3 deer this year that they are not ideal when hunting in bush or at close range within 50 yards. I discovered that the thin jacket makes this bullet behave much like a Hornady vmax at close range.... Boom splat. Expansion is so explosive that the entrance wound is huge and looks like an exit wound. I hit the front shoulder on a doe this month, and the destruction was extensive, with the bullet exploding and fragmenting with a ton of superficial damage.myou read a lot of long range hunters using these to drop large game, with expansion occurring after the first few inches. I don't doubt this at all, as the velocity at hat pound probably reduces the initial explosive tendencies of a thin jacket.</p><p></p><p>I love the Berger bullets for shooting paper and steel, and probably even shooting a deer at 400+, but I won't be using them for forest hunting in Arkansas anymore. I'm going back to the Barnes TSX.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LapuaMile, post: 574890, member: 30436"] I have historically hunted deer with the Barnes Tsx, and have loved everything except slightly excessive copper fouling. They group great if seated .15 thousands off the lands, and they stop deer like lightning. The hydrostatic shock effect is key in dropping the deer. This year I decided to take my 175 grain Berger vld hunting rounds to the forest. Let me tell you that I regularly shoot .5" groups at a hundred with this load from my DT SRS... I've also shot them out to 1000 yards with sub moa performance through wind and variable conditions. These bad boys can fly. Here's where my Berger vld love review breaks down... Hunting at close range. I discovered (unfortunately) on 3 deer this year that they are not ideal when hunting in bush or at close range within 50 yards. I discovered that the thin jacket makes this bullet behave much like a Hornady vmax at close range.... Boom splat. Expansion is so explosive that the entrance wound is huge and looks like an exit wound. I hit the front shoulder on a doe this month, and the destruction was extensive, with the bullet exploding and fragmenting with a ton of superficial damage.myou read a lot of long range hunters using these to drop large game, with expansion occurring after the first few inches. I don't doubt this at all, as the velocity at hat pound probably reduces the initial explosive tendencies of a thin jacket. I love the Berger bullets for shooting paper and steel, and probably even shooting a deer at 400+, but I won't be using them for forest hunting in Arkansas anymore. I'm going back to the Barnes TSX. [/QUOTE]
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