Barnes 308 Cal 130gr TTSX

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Have any of you folks had any on-game experience with the Barnes 130gr TTSX in 308 Cal? Especially at 300 Savage/starting load 308 Win speed? Any experience at all would be appreciated. Wound channel, amount of bloodshot meat, etc?

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Joel
 
I shot a few deer with them with my 20” barrel BAR 308 loaded to about 2900 FPS. They are accurate but don’t expand much, they tumble. I use 125 grain Nosler Accubonds now.
 
130 grain TSX launched out of my daughters .308 Winchester @ 2900 fps a couple of years ago.

Hard quartering-to at ~100 yards. Entered left shoulder and recovered in right ham.

Bullet tracked straight and exhibited perfect X-Bullet performance.



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Wow, that one looks picture perfect. From a woeful review to one that is magazine ad quality lol.

How did you find it in terms of meat loss? No worse than anything else?
 
ive seen them used in 308 for large deer, they are the pick of weight for mono in that cal i rekon.. ya wont get a whole lot of blood shot meat if ya ping the ribs..
 
No time to post pics right now, but my wife has killed a couple deer, several big bears and a bull moose with 130 ttsx, fired from a 308 win. All kills have been quick and wound channels are as expected. Not as messy as a cup and core, but enough carnage to incapacitate the critters expediently.

Stomp
 
Cool. Reason I was asking was because I'd found the 100gr 6.5mm at about 3100 fps to be pretty extreme.
 
Right on Jim!

This is what the 100gr TTSX did, not complaining about the terminal effect though haha...guess I did hit some pretty stout bone though.

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My original load for 130 Ttsx clocked only 2800 or so and dropped deer no issue (308 Win). My current load with TAC is 3150 and puts them down the same. Ranges are typically close though so velocities should still be up. A white tail I shot last year through the ribs at about 60 yards failed to exit and a very expanded picture perfect mushroom was on the offside hide. First one ever not to pass through.
 
I shoot the 150gr TTSX on whitetail and my buddies have taken 2 black bears with em; As deadly as anything, if not more so; All complete pass thrus except for one bear - it drilled through the shoulder, into the cavity and lodged in the far shoulder. Stayed together as well. Quite amazing, dropped it like a stone. Total weight retention means less blood at the exit sometimes as the bullet stays together.
 
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My original load for 130 Ttsx clocked only 2800 or so and dropped deer no issue (308 Win). My current load with TAC is 3150 and puts them down the same. Ranges are typically close though so velocities should still be up. A white tail I shot last year through the ribs at about 60 yards failed to exit and a very expanded picture perfect mushroom was on the offside hide. First one ever not to pass through.
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Holy cow, I'm surprised you caught one!

Cool thing about the monos is the SD might look low on paper, but the SD of a heavier lead cored bullet changes pretty fast when it loses 25-35% of its weight eh. What you got upon hitting the animal is not what does the work inside.

70% of 180 is 126 lol

JJ-65 holy crap thats light speed haha.
 
I like them a lot.

Run them at about 2950fps from a .308 Montana. They can be pushed harder, thats a middle of the range load. Nicer recoil from that 6lbs rig. Took this one from a bull moose, under the hide on the far side. The second shot was a quartering towards as he stumbled (first one was enough but you never know), and exited.
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Wow is that ever one nice bullet

What are the ranges like, that you've used em so far?
 
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