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Recovered Barnes TTSX
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<blockquote data-quote="Wedgy" data-source="post: 1062023" data-attributes="member: 64108"><p>Our southern California deer are a very soft target compared to pigs, mule deer, and elk so you won't get the expansion you are looking for unless you hit bone. I have never recovered a bullet, lead or copper, from any of them , being lucky enough to have made all good broadside heart lung shots with the edge of a shoulder usually a quarter size exit hole. Plenty of blood to track, all inside 50 yards. I have since dropped down to a lighter bullet at a higher velocity to get more expansion/damage to the heart and lungs as I don't want to destroy the shoulder meat. I don't use the 6.5 for these deer at all anymore, I dropped down to the .243 and push the 80 grain TTSX a little over 3500fps. Kind of acts like a varmint bullet(only one deer so far). Pigs are going to run unless you head/spine shoot them. Zombies they are. They will run without a heart or lungs for 200 yards.</p><p>As far as BC goes a copper bullet will generally have a higher BC than a lead bullet of the same weight as it will be longer and more aerodynamic. The Cutting Edge Bullets MTH I have used have penciled thru more than anything else in non lead but they shoot well. The 6.5mm 140 grain will not stabilize with a 1:8'' twist barrel as they claimed, not sure if they changed that yet.</p><p>As to your deer, very sorry that you didn't recover him. You didn't say how far he went yard wise but a heart shot means he isn't going to go very far. If it's thick brush or raining I will go for a head or shoulder but in open country I stick to the heart and lungs. Pigs have a little different structure than deer, I try to tuck it in as close to the shoulder as possible, otherwise you have a gut shot.</p><p><a href="http://s21.photobucket.com/user/rwedgy/media/hog_vitals_zps93427138.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b296/rwedgy/hog_vitals_zps93427138.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wedgy, post: 1062023, member: 64108"] Our southern California deer are a very soft target compared to pigs, mule deer, and elk so you won't get the expansion you are looking for unless you hit bone. I have never recovered a bullet, lead or copper, from any of them , being lucky enough to have made all good broadside heart lung shots with the edge of a shoulder usually a quarter size exit hole. Plenty of blood to track, all inside 50 yards. I have since dropped down to a lighter bullet at a higher velocity to get more expansion/damage to the heart and lungs as I don't want to destroy the shoulder meat. I don't use the 6.5 for these deer at all anymore, I dropped down to the .243 and push the 80 grain TTSX a little over 3500fps. Kind of acts like a varmint bullet(only one deer so far). Pigs are going to run unless you head/spine shoot them. Zombies they are. They will run without a heart or lungs for 200 yards. As far as BC goes a copper bullet will generally have a higher BC than a lead bullet of the same weight as it will be longer and more aerodynamic. The Cutting Edge Bullets MTH I have used have penciled thru more than anything else in non lead but they shoot well. The 6.5mm 140 grain will not stabilize with a 1:8'' twist barrel as they claimed, not sure if they changed that yet. As to your deer, very sorry that you didn't recover him. You didn't say how far he went yard wise but a heart shot means he isn't going to go very far. If it's thick brush or raining I will go for a head or shoulder but in open country I stick to the heart and lungs. Pigs have a little different structure than deer, I try to tuck it in as close to the shoulder as possible, otherwise you have a gut shot. [URL="http://s21.photobucket.com/user/rwedgy/media/hog_vitals_zps93427138.jpg.html"][IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b296/rwedgy/hog_vitals_zps93427138.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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