Someone Convince me to Reload/Hunt Big Game with Barnes TSX

[rem338win]

Yeah, but that's on those wimpy little West Coast deer. Eastern Whitetails are much harder to kill. You need big magnums

If the deer are anything like the folks out there, I am sure we could topple 'em with a pea and a straw.

i hunt for meat and i don't like wasting it. i hate hitting bones and wasting meat. i slip a vmax into the lower half farther away for the heart.

I don't understand tsx lovers. we have a fellow here that hunts serious and writes in with reviews and PROOF and yet you all shoot him down and call him a lair.

my old man shot a big black bear "claims" it reared up and stumbled around and ran into the swamp.

we searched and searched and could not find a spot of blood.

never was found. .

so i can't say for sure if he hit it or not but he hasn't missed a animal often and he was using a tsx out of a 30-06

You don't read well let alone between the lines do ya? Archie...get a leash on yer mutt....

 

[c-fbmi]

257 Wby

"Both bucks were lung shot" If you always wait for one through the ribs, and almost never take a shot through a shoulder or other oblique angles, then there are better bullets for you. I would move to something like a accubond, or about any of the bonded core choices.

Excellent advice, TSX/TTSX are better performers on bigger boned and heavier hided critters, I use 110 gn accubonds in my 257 Wby, they shoot amazing groups, get outstanding velocity and give spectacular kills on deer ans sheep sized game. If you were going moose or elk hunting with it then I would highly recommend the heaviest TSX/TTSX available in the caliber.

My 2 cents, shooting 257 for more than 30 years.