7mm-08 TSX .. spinner target

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Went out today to do the absolute final precision adjustments to be ready for bear season...:D

I setup @ 100 m and put up a reg. target as well as an old spinner target I had never used and 2 empty small green propane bottles, one with a clay pigeon on front..

So I get back to 100m, and find that my reg. target has come down :rolleyes: (didn't have it put on too well obviously, I had 2 staples left and used em :redface:)

but the propane cannisters and spinner were still there, so I figured I give em a crack before going back and fixing up the other target

so I let a shot go from a sitting position...

CrAAAAACk ! the propane ctlinder was knocked over..

I moved onto the next cylinder,. Crrrack ! that one down..

Now I didn't know how high I was hitting them, but decided I would give the spinner a try anyhow. I held on centre from a sitting position and squeezed one off..

CrrrrACK! spinner whips around..

So I'm quite happy, but totaly thinking I am going to go find that the spinner had just been knicked as it was only out doe in some sand and did not tumble over, stood up ready to be shot at like it had been hit with a .22..

To my surprise, the hit was a very good one...

Not being overly familiar with the Barnes TSX I was pretty impressed..at 100m it certainly opens up on the spinner :D

This is what the spinner was anchored in,.. I figured it would have fallen, but it didn't..

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barnes tsx's are very good bullets. I agree it doesn't take much to punch a hole in thin plate, but as i said they are good bullets provided your gun shoots them acurately.
 
TSX bullets make quick work out of steel targets way thicker than that spinner. A few years ago before my son and I went to Africa we were practising with his 30-06 and my 300 winny and the 168 gr TSX at 300 metres. Brendan was banging away at the 300 metre pig and I was getting frustrated with miss after miss. Finally I had Brendan break out my spotter to look at the pig and it turns out the 30-06 at 2800 fps was banging the gong and my 300 was blowing the same bullet right through. I had run about 10 holes in it that I needed the spotter to see at that distance.

After that I stopped destroying the gong style targets at the Ft Mc range.
 
martinbns said:
TSX bullets make quick work out of steel targets way thicker than that spinner. A few years ago before my son and I went to Africa we were practising with his 30-06 and my 300 winny and the 168 gr TSX at 300 metres. Brendan was banging away at the 300 metre pig and I was getting frustrated with miss after miss. Finally I had Brendan break out my spotter to look at the pig and it turns out the 30-06 at 2800 fps was banging the gong and my 300 was blowing the same bullet right through. I had run about 10 holes in it that I needed the spotter to see at that distance.

After that I stopped destroying the gong style targets at the Ft Mc range.
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good story :D
 
for what its worth, i have shot several deer, 3 moose and a black bear with the ttsx 168 in a 300 win mag i have NEVER recovered a bullet to date. They work as they are supposed to. Penetrate deeply usually giving two holes to leak out of. I thought i was going to finally get one from a broadside shot in a moose on the other side of a lake. Unfortunately he had two holes lol. I started loading Barnes in my son's 25wssm. Last year he shot a 3x4 muley . It was his first deer, never recovered the bullet. He also shot a calf moose (limited entry draw for kids) it was about a 2oo yard shot. If not for using the Barnes i probably would have got him to pass on the shot. As it was he double lunged it and cut off a rib on the exit side of the chest cavity. Still no bullets. I am hoping this spring will be the time. My son has a limited entry draw for a grizzly bear. Its going to 180 ttsx's from a 308 win. So ther might be hope for a recovered bullet yet!
 
Use AR-500 steel for your gongs, you won't get any holes through even thinner pieces of this steel.:p

The military used our range for training during the Olympics, they use this stuff for steel targets. You can unload anything except 50BMG on them and barely make a mark on it.:dancingbanana:
 
Gatehouse said:
Use AR-500 steel for your gongs, you won't get any holes through even thinner pieces of this steel.:p

The military used our range for training during the Olympics, they use this stuff for steel targets. You can unload anything except 50BMG on them and barely make a mark on it.:dancingbanana:
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I think I may put up a gong...

the spinner target was setup for my .22 marlin lever action... the competition target for the 7mm-08

Got back to 100 m and put up the .22.. and the very first round jammed,..
then the second round jammed..

I was pissed so I put it away and pulled out the centrefire,... only to find the target had fallen down..:redface:

so I did what I had to do!!!! I shot everything else I could see! :D
(except the chopper!)

I have shot tose spinners with a few different calibres... it's fun !

but yeah, a gong ringing out is fun and less expensive...:)
 
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