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<blockquote data-quote="2Old2Care" data-source="post: 2428084" data-attributes="member: 121800"><p>My experience with the 6x7 bull in the background of my picture was exactly opposite of what most others have reported. The bull was shot through the lungs twice at 320 yards with a 300 WSM using the 165 TSX at just over 2900 fps/MV. The bull dropped, but got up and ran. There was no blood where the bull laid on the ground and no blood trail. After more than an hour of tracking disrupted pine needles and few tracks I found the bull dead in a mess of blowdowns. It had a very thick winter coat and no blood from the entrance wounds. The bullets didn't exit, and we found both fully mushroomed just under the skin on the off-side, within three inches of each other, after travelling through the lungs. Interestingly, hair was packed UNDER the bullet peddles, they had not sheared off, which means the bullets were fully mushroomed before contacting hide, meat, or bone. I assume that is what kept the bullets from exiting, since they had 'used all their energy' just getting to the hide on the off side. Not the performance I expected and in this case I wish the peddles would have sheered and the bullet would have exited so there may have been a blood trail to follow. Two years earlier, again on a winter bull (with shorter hair), the same bullet to the lungs from a 300 RUM at 400 yards exited and left a huge blood trail! I'm inclined to recommend the TTSX since I think that it might get through long hair better without opening prematurely. I still think Barnes makes a good product and will continue to use them, but think that I now understand their limitations better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2Old2Care, post: 2428084, member: 121800"] My experience with the 6x7 bull in the background of my picture was exactly opposite of what most others have reported. The bull was shot through the lungs twice at 320 yards with a 300 WSM using the 165 TSX at just over 2900 fps/MV. The bull dropped, but got up and ran. There was no blood where the bull laid on the ground and no blood trail. After more than an hour of tracking disrupted pine needles and few tracks I found the bull dead in a mess of blowdowns. It had a very thick winter coat and no blood from the entrance wounds. The bullets didn't exit, and we found both fully mushroomed just under the skin on the off-side, within three inches of each other, after travelling through the lungs. Interestingly, hair was packed UNDER the bullet peddles, they had not sheared off, which means the bullets were fully mushroomed before contacting hide, meat, or bone. I assume that is what kept the bullets from exiting, since they had 'used all their energy' just getting to the hide on the off side. Not the performance I expected and in this case I wish the peddles would have sheered and the bullet would have exited so there may have been a blood trail to follow. Two years earlier, again on a winter bull (with shorter hair), the same bullet to the lungs from a 300 RUM at 400 yards exited and left a huge blood trail! I'm inclined to recommend the TTSX since I think that it might get through long hair better without opening prematurely. I still think Barnes makes a good product and will continue to use them, but think that I now understand their limitations better. [/QUOTE]
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