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What's Wrong With Barnes Bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tumbleweed" data-source="post: 894010" data-attributes="member: 9281"><p>In my experience with Barnes TSX bullets, they have been very, very accurate and don't seem to care too much where they are seated at. I did some longer range expansion tests in wood with the 180's out of my 300 Wby at 775 yards and 1100 yards. They were leaving the muzzle at 3270fps. At 775 yards expansion pretty much stopped and only a small portion of the tip was peeled. At 1100 yards the bullet looked unfired other than the rifling gouges. I wanted to be able to take game out to and past 1000 yards and it was at this time I switched to the fragmenting bullet camp. Since then I've used all Bergers, 168 VLD, 210 VLD, 215 Hybrid, and now in the new rifle 230 Hybrids. I have reliably taken elk from 70 yards to just over 1000 yards. I've learned to load the heaviest Berger possible for the caliber and then I'm still covered (meaning I have adequate penetration) at close range even with the higher impact velocities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tumbleweed, post: 894010, member: 9281"] In my experience with Barnes TSX bullets, they have been very, very accurate and don't seem to care too much where they are seated at. I did some longer range expansion tests in wood with the 180's out of my 300 Wby at 775 yards and 1100 yards. They were leaving the muzzle at 3270fps. At 775 yards expansion pretty much stopped and only a small portion of the tip was peeled. At 1100 yards the bullet looked unfired other than the rifling gouges. I wanted to be able to take game out to and past 1000 yards and it was at this time I switched to the fragmenting bullet camp. Since then I've used all Bergers, 168 VLD, 210 VLD, 215 Hybrid, and now in the new rifle 230 Hybrids. I have reliably taken elk from 70 yards to just over 1000 yards. I've learned to load the heaviest Berger possible for the caliber and then I'm still covered (meaning I have adequate penetration) at close range even with the higher impact velocities. [/QUOTE]
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