Barnes TSX vs. Moose

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With all the talk about the TSX I though I'd share my experience from this year's moose. By the way, this is my third moose shot with TSX bullets, two with my 7mm Rem Mag and 160gr TSX and and this years is the first with my semi-custom .35 Whelen and 225gr TSX.

I shot this smaller bull (516Lbs in 4 quarters at the butcher) from about 75 yards broadside. A combination of excitement, off hand shot and not even thinking that my rifle was sighted in 2.5" high, resulted in a less than perfect shot, just above the spine, in the "hump". The bullet busted two of those long "hump" spines and exited. The bull dropped to the shot but was trying to get up. As I was getting closer for a finishing shot, the bull got up on his front legs straight on to me with his ears pealed back! Two quick shots, one for the head that spun him around and second to the neck and it was game over. I recovered this bullet (the head on shot to the head) in the neck with some broken spine.

The smaller one on the right
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I was a little disapointed at first to see that the bullet had lost tree petals but you can see the damage on the shank of the bullet, it must have hit something pretty hard to knock off three of the petals (one was found with the bullet) and mark the bullet like that.
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Next month I'm going deer hunting in Alberta and I'm hoping to test the 120gr TSX in my 6.5x55.
 
Through the head and into the neck is a pretty tough road to plow through for any bullet, very thick bone with lots of nooks and crannies for the petals to get caught on. I wouldn't be overly concerned about it.
 
Not to take away or hijack from your Thread,

With all the talk about bullets and shells and whats best, after a very few opinions on the accubond and having Winchester 140 gr accubonds in my stock, I will never use another shell on moose again.

As I seen how these shells worked on deer and the over kill they left, I just had to change to something else. I saved what I had left and had the chance to try them on the moose hunt and at a range that the whole group scratched their heads the Winchester 140gr accubond was a one shot kill on a moose. Placed in the center of the boiler room the bullet entered and did the work it needed at the heat pump. The moose dropped in its tracks.

Just some feedback that may help at some point...
 
I have never been disappointed with a less than perfect mushroomed bullet,especially when there is a moose hanging.:cool:
A moose noggin and neck have lots of heavy bone and can deform the best made bullets......:50cal:
 
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