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What's Wrong With Barnes Bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tikkamike" data-source="post: 893330" data-attributes="member: 22242"><p>First of all a Barnes is NOT a solid. its a controlled expansion bullet. a solid would be a barnes Buster or the like.. Jeff is spot on with the higher BC bullets being better for getting on target at ELR. Now that being said Jeff has a lot more experience than I do at ELR but what ELR shooting I have done with 300SMK out of my Lapua the target bullets open very little. My area of expertise is around 1000 yards and under and here is what I have seen. My lapua with 300 smk has killed several animals in the 600-1000 range and sometimes they make a perfect mushroom sometimes they explode and sometimes they dont open at all. For this reason I have decided to switch to the inferior BC 280 grain LRX. I have not used it yet BUT I have used my 7mm, 2506 and 338 win with various tsx bullets our to 890 yards and they have performed flawlessly. the elk at 890 was with my 338 win and a 225ttsx it busted down her front shoulders and made a nice size exit wound. So for me there is nothing to date wrong with the TSX series bullets. I kill quite a few animals each year and I always know what my bullet is going to do. </p><p>I have tried Bergers in my 338 lapua and my 7mmRM but couldnt get them to shoot as well as the barnes or in the case of my lapua the smk shot better. However the berger did shoot pretty good in my lapua. I think you need to decide what you want your bullet to do, how far are you going to be killing animals and make a decision based on that. the 2 are so far apart it should be easy to decide which is for you... If you want middle of the road performance between the two I think the NAB is a pretty good choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tikkamike, post: 893330, member: 22242"] First of all a Barnes is NOT a solid. its a controlled expansion bullet. a solid would be a barnes Buster or the like.. Jeff is spot on with the higher BC bullets being better for getting on target at ELR. Now that being said Jeff has a lot more experience than I do at ELR but what ELR shooting I have done with 300SMK out of my Lapua the target bullets open very little. My area of expertise is around 1000 yards and under and here is what I have seen. My lapua with 300 smk has killed several animals in the 600-1000 range and sometimes they make a perfect mushroom sometimes they explode and sometimes they dont open at all. For this reason I have decided to switch to the inferior BC 280 grain LRX. I have not used it yet BUT I have used my 7mm, 2506 and 338 win with various tsx bullets our to 890 yards and they have performed flawlessly. the elk at 890 was with my 338 win and a 225ttsx it busted down her front shoulders and made a nice size exit wound. So for me there is nothing to date wrong with the TSX series bullets. I kill quite a few animals each year and I always know what my bullet is going to do. I have tried Bergers in my 338 lapua and my 7mmRM but couldnt get them to shoot as well as the barnes or in the case of my lapua the smk shot better. However the berger did shoot pretty good in my lapua. I think you need to decide what you want your bullet to do, how far are you going to be killing animals and make a decision based on that. the 2 are so far apart it should be easy to decide which is for you... If you want middle of the road performance between the two I think the NAB is a pretty good choice. [/QUOTE]
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