Experience with Mono-metal Bullets - Accuracy

My experience with Barnes TTSX has been the most accurate bullet for hunting we have ever tested.
Performance on game has been 100% furthest tracking job has been approx 80 yards. 98% of the time no tracking required dies right there.
We have shot Partitions, Accubonds, SST's and Sierra's. With our limited experience the TTSX wins in all categories.

I am not saying any the others failed, Just saying I have no real life personal reason to not use Barnes TTSX

Just my experience
 
I like mono metal bullets and I use them in three different calibers.

My only issue with them is their propensity to foul at higher velocities and that they seem to require a tighter twist to get best accuracy.

For instance, many of the recent .308 bores have 1-12 or even slower twist rates.

Longer for weight and diameter bullets require a tighter twist rate. Say 1-10 minimum. The rifles I have with a 1-10 twist rate are consistently more accurate with 165 grain bullets than those with 1-12, unless I load them to much faster velocities. Even then, accuracy isn't as good.

Same goes for .224 bores, the 55 grain bullets will stabilize just fine out to 150 yards with a 1-14 twist, but anything further and the groups really start to open up.

It's a learning curve that has to be addressed, if you're going to shoot mono metals.

I agree with Marty06, they work very well on game animals, for a quick kill, as long as they are place properly on the target.
 
I load 150grain TSX in my 303 and have killed many deer and a moose with it from 25 to over 300 yards .
My son's 6.5x284 will shoot 120 TSX's into 1 MOA easily as will his 257 Roberts, as well as LRX
Both my 280 and my 260 will shoot LRX and GMX bullets less than 1 MOA at 200.
All these rifles shoot handloads with the bullets set very deep
Compared to cup and core bullets
 
I have had good luck with Hornadt GMX 120 in 6.5x55. Accuracy is as good or better than jacketed bullets.
 
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I've had no issues getting the Barnes TTSX to shoot well. The BC on them though is pretty poor compared to some of the excellent bonded bullets out there.
 
Markus said:
I've had no issues getting the Barnes TTSX to shoot well. The BC on them though is pretty poor compared to some of the excellent bonded bullets out there.
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Yes, the published BCs are pretty low for the Barnes lineup. I wonder, though, how much faith we can have in the published BCs for most bullets (unless they have been established by firing tests, as with Sierra).
 
Markus said:
I've had no issues getting the Barnes TTSX to shoot well. The BC on them though is pretty poor compared to some of the excellent bonded bullets out there.
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Bryan Litz BC's :

.446 6.5mm 127 LRX
.440 6.5mm 130 NAB
.491 6.5mm 130gr Scirocco

.423 .277" 129 LRX
.387 .277" 130 NAB

.465 7mm 145gr LRX
.408 7mm 140 TTSX
.389 7mm 140gr NAB
.473 7mm 150gr Scirocco

.455 .308" 168gr TTSX
.446 .308" 165gr NAB
.432 .308" 165gr Scirocco

.482 .308" 175gr LRX
.482 .308" 180gr NAB
.481 .308" 180gr Scirocco

.495 .338" 225gr TTSX
.524 .338" 225gr NAB
 
todbartell said:
Bryan Litz BC's :

.446 6.5mm 127 LRX
.440 6.5mm 130 NAB
.491 6.5mm 130gr Scirocco

.423 .277" 129 LRX
.387 .277" 130 NAB

.465 7mm 145gr LRX
.408 7mm 140 TTSX
.389 7mm 140gr NAB
.473 7mm 150gr Scirocco

.455 .308" 168gr TTSX
.446 .308" 165gr NAB
.432 .308" 165gr Scirocco

.482 .308" 175gr LRX
.482 .308" 180gr NAB
.481 .308" 180gr Scirocco

.495 .338" 225gr TTSX
.524 .338" 225gr NAB
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That's interesting info. Were those BCs obtained via firing tests?
 
todbartell said:
Bryan Litz BC's :

.446 6.5mm 127 LRX
.440 6.5mm 130 NAB
.491 6.5mm 130gr Scirocco

.423 .277" 129 LRX
.387 .277" 130 NAB

.465 7mm 145gr LRX
.408 7mm 140 TTSX
.389 7mm 140gr NAB
.473 7mm 150gr Scirocco

.455 .308" 168gr TTSX
.446 .308" 165gr NAB
.432 .308" 165gr Scirocco

.482 .308" 175gr LRX
.482 .308" 180gr NAB
.481 .308" 180gr Scirocco

.495 .338" 225gr TTSX
.524 .338" 225gr NAB
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With these bullets, one should use the G7 from the book of Litz. Since they are boatttails, it is a more accurate description of the way they fly.
 
Dogleg said:
Yep.

The Barnes TSX and later are ridiculously easy to get to shoot. Who cares? Still hate them.
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The Barnes shot "extremely" well in a custom 257 Weatherby, most accurate and fast..........but that's where it ends. I've have two personal bad experiences with game, one buck ran 500 yards and the other 200 yards with no blood trail, tiny specks of blood only; however they were recovered. I was guiding Ubaldo Lopez on a mule deer/whitetail combo hunt and he required 3 shots to kill a mule deer buck with 140 gr. Barnes out of a 280 Remington........... I was not impressed, to say the least.

I guided many American hunters who also had terrible experiences with Barnes bullets, animals were never recovered. I really don't recommend these bullets, and really don't care about "ballistic coefficient." I've killed well over 200 big game animals, not including another 200 kills I witnessed, where ballistic coefficient played no roll. This BC is nothing but a bunch of crap.
 
They’re plenty accurate enough but their performance on game leaves a lot to be desired.

I won’t use them in anything smaller than 30 cal.
 
You know, if I didn’t know better I MIGHT believe you. But as they say, you can fool the fans, but not the players. Here is my stash of recovered Barnes bullets. Citing a 10% recovery rate, you do the math.

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chuck nelson said:
You know, if I didn’t know better I MIGHT believe you. But as they say, you can fool the fans, but not the players. Here is my stash of recovered Barnes bullets. Citing a 10% recovery rate, you do the math.

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Before I can do the math you’ll need to show us the pictures of all the bullets that didn’t expand. Convenient that you left them out of the equation. And don’t try to tell us you’ve never had failures with Barnes bullets.
 
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