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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 1563276" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>I have only one dedicated hunting rifle for all hunting, except varmint, and it gets used occasionally for that....good practice. A .375 AI. I was using the original X bullet, as I was disappointed with the penetration of the cup and core Bullets of the time. Had not the Barnes come out....and a friend of mine and Randy Brooks did extensive testing on deer with lightweight Bullets in a 6 MM on many mule deer ( extra permits were readily available at the time), I may have never tried them, and would have gone to the Partition. The aforementioned elk was my first with the Barnes, I considered it a complete success, achieving my desires for massive penetration, with minimal weight loss. If my memory serves me correctly, after loosing one petal, the residual weight was 257 grains. I choose "not" to go light for caliber Bullets as promoted, preferring to stay with bullets of weights considered conventional in cup and core circles. I rarely get "bang flops", as a I rarely spine shoot....but no animals have gone far or are hard to track. The "only" animal we (wife and I ) have shot, that left a minimal blood trail ( near nothing for approx 30 to 40 yards) was with a very low chest shot on her antelope, from her .338 WM with 225 TTSX. Had it been a Whitetail in heavy cover, it would have require a bit of aggressive searching for blood trail. Antelope only went another 50 or so yards beyond the blood trail origin. Several years ago, I took a mule deer buck, center mass, behind shoulder ( lungs), leaving a 6 to 8 feet of blood spray pattered across the snow....the deer went less than ten feet. The bullet was again, the 270 grain Barnes. They've simple been so good for us, I can't imagine changing! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 1563276, member: 75451"] I have only one dedicated hunting rifle for all hunting, except varmint, and it gets used occasionally for that....good practice. A .375 AI. I was using the original X bullet, as I was disappointed with the penetration of the cup and core Bullets of the time. Had not the Barnes come out....and a friend of mine and Randy Brooks did extensive testing on deer with lightweight Bullets in a 6 MM on many mule deer ( extra permits were readily available at the time), I may have never tried them, and would have gone to the Partition. The aforementioned elk was my first with the Barnes, I considered it a complete success, achieving my desires for massive penetration, with minimal weight loss. If my memory serves me correctly, after loosing one petal, the residual weight was 257 grains. I choose “not” to go light for caliber Bullets as promoted, preferring to stay with bullets of weights considered conventional in cup and core circles. I rarely get “bang flops”, as a I rarely spine shoot....but no animals have gone far or are hard to track. The “only” animal we (wife and I ) have shot, that left a minimal blood trail ( near nothing for approx 30 to 40 yards) was with a very low chest shot on her antelope, from her .338 WM with 225 TTSX. Had it been a Whitetail in heavy cover, it would have require a bit of aggressive searching for blood trail. Antelope only went another 50 or so yards beyond the blood trail origin. Several years ago, I took a mule deer buck, center mass, behind shoulder ( lungs), leaving a 6 to 8 feet of blood spray pattered across the snow....the deer went less than ten feet. The bullet was again, the 270 grain Barnes. They’ve simple been so good for us, I can’t imagine changing! memtb [/QUOTE]
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