Barnes TTSX (or TSX) and meat damage

[rem338win]

I use a shotgun mostly for deer 12-16ga 9-12 buckshot i find most of the time it is up close and personal because we run the bush in a team type manner long distince we will use a rifle 200-300-yards the bullet is half spent by then.

Sounds like a tacticool hunting team. You do this in the Okanagan do ya?
I spend money on bullets, I don't shoot spent bullets. Is your buddy that dumped the Deese Lake 2200lb monster on that tacticool team?

 

[rem338win]

I've shot two moose, three deer and one bear with the TSX, TTSX and LRX so far. Minimal meat damage has been my experience with a .260 Rem, 7mm Rem Mag, .300 WSM and .35 Whelen. They will mess up everything in their path but minimal bloodshot.

Here a high shoulder shot entry and exit on a muley buck shot at 100 yds with a 120gr TSX out of my .260 Rem. Through both shoulders and spine.

Pretty much what I am used to as well.

 

[Big Jon]

They do less damage and kill slower on lung hits. I usually shoot the shoulders on purpose when useing them to get animals on the ground faster, so its a bit of a catch-22 that way.

The best way to avoid meat damage to not shoot deer in the meat. That works pretty good.

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Meat damage threads crack me up quite a bit. I've shot a pile of deer (and a couple moose) with the bullet that many love to hate...Sierra Gamekings. When I shot clean through the lungs without hitting any shoulder meat and bone, I would get minimal meat damage. When I started shooting TSXs, I found that when I shot clean through the lungs without hitting any shoulder meat and bone, I would get miniaml meat damage...crazy...