Are barnes ttsx any good on deer.

[sdupontjr]

130's strike again. Another freezer queen didnt take a step. Like getting hit by s bolt of lightning.

 

[MattB]

For what's worth, stepped on a 120 Hammer Hunter in 7mm-08 this fall and it did incredible damage to the lungs and broke ribs coming and going of a blacktail buck at 160. Worked as advertised for sure.

A friend’s wife recently killed a cow elk with the same combination. Bang flop at ~150 yards.

 

[CentralFLMike]

With good shot placement, they're a death ray on deer!

 

[12bhunting]

I hope they do good. Just picked up 2 boxes to try out ... Since SGK is nowhere to be found..,

 

[Erict]

TTSX works great for me. 30-06 150 gr TTSX at 2970 fps. 90 yard shot this year. Double-lung and exited front shoulder, jumped in the air, did a 180 and dropped dead. By dumb luck I saw the shale disturbed behind the carcass in line with the shot (orange circle). Sifted through the top 2" and found my bullet. 139 grains and perfect expansion if you ask me. 168 Accubonds were just as accurate and I'm sure would work as well.

 

[Zbot]

That’s all I shoot from blackbuck to bison, all dead and all good blood trails.

 

[Mike D Texas]

If driven at high velocity they work very well.


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[sdupontjr]

For the 1st time since using these, I had a buck run off about 40 yards rather than drop instantly. Hit em right behind fronds shoulder and went through middle of other front shoulder. So no bullet to check expansion but the hole in the other shoulder had a golf ball size hole in it.

 

[KenLee]

Any bullet other than full metal jacket should kill deer quick at 100 yards from a 300 Wby mag

 

[Ron.C]

For the 1st time since using these, I had a buck run off about 40 yards rather than drop instantly. Hit em right behind fronds shoulder and went through middle of other front shoulder. So no bullet to check expansion but the hole in the other shoulder had a golf ball size hole in it.

I've been shooting my 7mm-08 with 140gr ttsx for a bunch of years now. Killed whitetail, mule, blacktail deer, black bears and elk with it at ranges from 8 to just over 300 yards. I also shoot heart/lungs and get the same results. Full pass through,excellent wound channel. Usually a short death run and they drop. The only oddity is black bears. They all seem to drop on the spot (again heart/lung shots) "no complaints here".

My buddies daughter has done the same with the 7mm-08 low recoil loads with 120gr TTSX.

OP, a guy I work with shoots TTSX's from his 300 ( not sure what powder/load he went with). I know he's taken whitetail's a moose and a black bear with the same load (I never heard him say anything negative about any of them). He did recover a bullet from the moose from the offside shoulder and it was pretty impressive.

That said, IMO your 300WM with ttsx will work on pretty much any north american big game animal with allot more reach than I'm limited to with the 7mm-08

 

[MikeDeltaFoxtrot]

I've killed a few deer with 168 gr TTSX out of my Tikka 308. All were DRT.

 

[jja600]

They have worked good for me in the past. I used 140gr 7mm. I dont use them for long range (500 yards plus) steel.

 

[Dr Evil]

On whitetailed deer I've used the following Barnes Bullets:

80g 6mm TTSX - 243 Win, 3300 fps
85g 6mm TSX - 243 Win 3150 fps
100g .257 TTSX - 257 Wby Mag, 3650 fps
120 6.5 TTSX - 6.5x55 Swede, 2950 fps
140g .284 TTSX - 7x57mm Mauser 2700 fps, 7mm RM 3200 fps
130g .308 TTSX - 308 Winchester 2950 fps
168g .308 TTSX - 308 Win 2680fps, 300 Win Mag 3100 fps

I've also killed elk with both the 168g loads in the .308 and .300 Win Mag

The .308 Win 168g loading will almost go lengthwise though a large wild boar.

Unlike many western hunters, my shots tend to be close and mostly inside of 200y and many well inside of that range. With some of these rounds I'm more afraid of how the bullet is going to perform if the deer / hog creeps in 20y behind me instead of 300y on the other side of the opening I can see. The only one I've ever recovered was from the .257 Weatherby shot straight into the chest and a very close range. It was recovered in the scrambled mess of guts that fell out.

 

[Sneaker]

To that point, using a 150gr TTSX for 7mm, shot a large bull elk at 50 yards, mid body, the elk only made it about 30 yards, but the bullet shattered and fragmented inside and did not exit, so does that mean it was going too fast at that short range? Obviously did the job but not what I was expecting.

 

[Macintosh]

Sounds like you have the bullet. Post a picture so we can see, the verbal description is hard to gauge what actually happened.

If you mean it shed a couple petals, that is normal at close range. Down in 30 yards from a mid-body shot, sounds like it performed fabulously.


Regardless, the op asked about a 300wby mag on deer. Imo thats massively overkill, so if a more reasonably sized deer cartridge isnt an option I would be using a mono like a ttsx with that cartridge for certain in order to minimize the damage to the deer.

 

[Ken_L]

I use premium bullets such as the TTSX in smaller calibers such as my 243 or 257 but with 308 or 30-06 I just use cup and core bullets for deer.

 

[jeffpenland123]

I shoot the 168 gr from my 30-06. They haven't failed me yet.

Define what you mean as "good bullet". What are you looking for?

good penetration good expansion and good weight retention for any game. i hunt with a big gun so i might hunt anything,

 

[jeffpenland123]

Those should work just fine. You will probably want to stay inside 500 yards to see bigger-than-caliber expansion.

i do not hunt past 250 any way. thank you.

 

[TimeOnTarget]

I load 55 Ttsx in 223 for my son. He has shot 2 deer with them at 120 and 80 yds and had pass throughs on both with nickel size exits. Excellent results even in that small caliber.

 

[jeffpenland123]

If driven at high velocity they work very well.


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the 300weatherby load is advertized at 3240 fps and 4197 energy. i think it should be enough for deer a lot of peopl say i hunt with too big of a gun for where i hunt and just for whitetail a buddy has a 270 and he said yeah thats too big of a gun for deer he shoot a nice doe a 30yards it ran fifty yards. i shot 4 does a 100 for three of them and forty fo anther big blood on all of them. no blood on his at all on his if he would not have seen where his fell he would have never found it his excuse for no blood was the bullet was still moving so fast it did not open up he hunts with fedral bluebox 130 gr well i replied i shoot one at forty yards with a bullet moving three hundred foot a second faster and it mascured it. and that is with the accubond load and it is at 3250 fps and 4221 energy but they discontinued it in the weatherby load so i have to get something else and the ttsx looks best.