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Recovered Barnes bullet
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<blockquote data-quote="Timber338" data-source="post: 1262936" data-attributes="member: 33822"><p>My experience with Barnes bullets is to run them fast and they'll produce amazing terminal ballistics. Copper deforms much differently than lead and should be treated differently with respect to impact velocity. I do think you should drop bullet weight to get your velocity up. </p><p></p><p>Lots of my buddies shoot 165 and 150 TTSX out of 300 WSMs and never lost a bull elk. I really can't tell a difference in performance on elk with those two bullet weights. Of course they are not long range guys all of their shots have been 200 or less. Most less than 100. </p><p></p><p>Another buddy shot a cow elk at about 35 yards with a 210 TTSX and impact veocity was right near 3000 FPS. Head on shot bullet entered the chest below the neck and traveled the entire length of the body and stopped under the hide on the back side of the rear quarter. Heart lungs and everything in that bullets path was soup. I will try and dig up the picture we took of the bulllet. It had a very impressive mushroom. </p><p></p><p>The previous year we both shots bulls with the 210 TTSX at longer ranges... I think 460 and 630 yards. Impact velocities were about 2300 and 2000 FPS respectively. We had two dead elk, and one of them was a huge herd bull with a massive body. Both shots were quartered but we only retrieved one of the bullets on the smaller bull. Mushroom was what I expected but not what you would want with just the tip of the nose opened up. Shot placement is what killed both elk, there were quarter-sized holes through the vitals and virtually zero tissue damage outside of tue quarter sized path of the bullet. </p><p></p><p>So in my opinion/experience, drive them fast for high velocity impacts and the TTSX produces excellent results. But not so great for long range. I'll try and dig up the pics of those bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber338, post: 1262936, member: 33822"] My experience with Barnes bullets is to run them fast and they'll produce amazing terminal ballistics. Copper deforms much differently than lead and should be treated differently with respect to impact velocity. I do think you should drop bullet weight to get your velocity up. Lots of my buddies shoot 165 and 150 TTSX out of 300 WSMs and never lost a bull elk. I really can't tell a difference in performance on elk with those two bullet weights. Of course they are not long range guys all of their shots have been 200 or less. Most less than 100. Another buddy shot a cow elk at about 35 yards with a 210 TTSX and impact veocity was right near 3000 FPS. Head on shot bullet entered the chest below the neck and traveled the entire length of the body and stopped under the hide on the back side of the rear quarter. Heart lungs and everything in that bullets path was soup. I will try and dig up the picture we took of the bulllet. It had a very impressive mushroom. The previous year we both shots bulls with the 210 TTSX at longer ranges... I think 460 and 630 yards. Impact velocities were about 2300 and 2000 FPS respectively. We had two dead elk, and one of them was a huge herd bull with a massive body. Both shots were quartered but we only retrieved one of the bullets on the smaller bull. Mushroom was what I expected but not what you would want with just the tip of the nose opened up. Shot placement is what killed both elk, there were quarter-sized holes through the vitals and virtually zero tissue damage outside of tue quarter sized path of the bullet. So in my opinion/experience, drive them fast for high velocity impacts and the TTSX produces excellent results. But not so great for long range. I'll try and dig up the pics of those bullets. [/QUOTE]
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