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Bullet failures
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<blockquote data-quote="Allen Kitts" data-source="post: 2402803" data-attributes="member: 103317"><p>I have had a complete failure on an older Barnes bullet in the late 90's, funny I just posted this on another post earlier today. I shot a caribou three times with a 140 grain Barnes that was moly coated and you could literally cover the three shots with a silver dollar. Later that season in Montana my firend shot a nice Muley buck with the STW with the same bullet and same thing. Luckily it was a hard quartering shot and it went in the onside ham and stopped at the skin on the offside neck area. One little petal had pealed back literally 1/16 of an inch. I sent that bullet back to Barnes with the explanation on my Caribou hunt and then this mule deer hunt and they advised me that they were getting complaints on the new bullets and that they had foound that if the very small hole on the tip of the bullet got something plugged in it before it hit the cavity of the animal it would just pencil right through. they sent me a new box of bullets that they had made the hole larger in an attempt to keep it from plugging up. I never had the issue again. When the TTSX came out I was sold. That is the only time I ever had a series of bullets not perform.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen Kitts, post: 2402803, member: 103317"] I have had a complete failure on an older Barnes bullet in the late 90's, funny I just posted this on another post earlier today. I shot a caribou three times with a 140 grain Barnes that was moly coated and you could literally cover the three shots with a silver dollar. Later that season in Montana my firend shot a nice Muley buck with the STW with the same bullet and same thing. Luckily it was a hard quartering shot and it went in the onside ham and stopped at the skin on the offside neck area. One little petal had pealed back literally 1/16 of an inch. I sent that bullet back to Barnes with the explanation on my Caribou hunt and then this mule deer hunt and they advised me that they were getting complaints on the new bullets and that they had foound that if the very small hole on the tip of the bullet got something plugged in it before it hit the cavity of the animal it would just pencil right through. they sent me a new box of bullets that they had made the hole larger in an attempt to keep it from plugging up. I never had the issue again. When the TTSX came out I was sold. That is the only time I ever had a series of bullets not perform. [/QUOTE]
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