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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1356229" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I used to be Barnes biggest fan boy till we started shooting elk on pivots where you can see everything and they can't just disappear into miles of timber, after the first season where we saw just shy of 300 elk shot it was abundantly clear that we saw more issues with "hunting" bullets than anything else, we consistently had to shoot more rounds per elk with Barnes than any other bullet. I had two bullets turn 90 degrees on elk shoulders shooting with a 300 WBY and 168's, I hit that cow 5 times before breaking enough bone I could walk up to her and kill her with a 22. The next year I dumped a cow only to find her still alive because the bullet again deflected out her shoulder forward but fortunately hit her neck and she bleed out enough she could get back to the herd, with in 10 min of that another guy had a Barnes stop dead on an elk shoulder but since they are on pivots you know it failed and another shooter can put a second round in quick. By year three if you showed up with something loaded with Barnes you would have to shoot someone else's gun, I'll never shoot one at an elk again, wonderful small game bullets for deer and such.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1356229, member: 13632"] I used to be Barnes biggest fan boy till we started shooting elk on pivots where you can see everything and they can't just disappear into miles of timber, after the first season where we saw just shy of 300 elk shot it was abundantly clear that we saw more issues with "hunting" bullets than anything else, we consistently had to shoot more rounds per elk with Barnes than any other bullet. I had two bullets turn 90 degrees on elk shoulders shooting with a 300 WBY and 168's, I hit that cow 5 times before breaking enough bone I could walk up to her and kill her with a 22. The next year I dumped a cow only to find her still alive because the bullet again deflected out her shoulder forward but fortunately hit her neck and she bleed out enough she could get back to the herd, with in 10 min of that another guy had a Barnes stop dead on an elk shoulder but since they are on pivots you know it failed and another shooter can put a second round in quick. By year three if you showed up with something loaded with Barnes you would have to shoot someone else's gun, I'll never shoot one at an elk again, wonderful small game bullets for deer and such. [/QUOTE]
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