Barnes 120 TTSX

[EastTX Jess]

Just cheat the crosshairs left a hair and hit high shoulder. You won’t need a blood trail to follow. I kill quite a few whitetail and plains game with that bullet out of a 20” 7-08 every year (MLD and exotic culls for a friend). You won’t waste any more meat than a fragile cup and core bullet shot through the crease.

Or, if you’re set on only shooting behind the shoulder, switch to the 120 Nosler BT. One of my 7-08s doesn’t group the TTSX so it gets the Nosler instead. That is a tough bullet that kills violently.

 

[paulv2585]

This is more for when my boys shoot. We practice year around but buck fever gets to everyone and I just want the best chance to find anything they shoot. In this shot he was aiming for the shoulder but between the shakes, hyperventilating, and he admitted to pulling the trigger a little, he hit just behind the shoulder. Was actually a better placement because he saved all of the meat.


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[EastTX Jess]

This is more for when my boys shoot. We practice year around but buck fever gets to everyone and I just want the best chance to find anything they shoot. In this shot he was aiming for the shoulder but between the shakes, hyperventilating, and he admitted to pulling the trigger a little, he hit just behind the shoulder. Was actually a better placement because he saved all of the meat.


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Understood. The 120 NBT is probably the best option for you then because of the increased margin of error. They kill really well through shoulders and just as well on broadside double lungs.

 

[swampy14]

You are comparing a mono solid copper bullet to a highly frangible cup and core bullet. They kill different but results are still dead animals.

Monos are like broadheads if you want to think about it that way. They are super tough, with bust through bones but the wound cavity usually isn’t very large unless you shatter a bone and get bone fragments going through the vitals.

I like monos but I’m starting to try bonded bullets like terminal ascent, fusions, accubonds, swift siccorro ii as a comprise between really tough bullet construction and very large mushrooms and wound cavities

 

[Pharmseller]

You are comparing a mono solid copper bullet to a highly frangible cup and core bullet. They kill different but results are still dead animals.

Monos are like broadheads if you want to think about it that way. They are super tough, with bust through bones but the wound cavity usually isn’t very large unless you shatter a bone and get bone fragments going through the vitals.

I like monos but I’m starting to try bonded bullets like terminal ascent, fusions, accubonds, swift siccorro ii as a comprise between really tough bullet construction and very large mushrooms and wound cavities

In my experience they ain’t that frangible. They hold together really well.

IIRC Nosler declined to make a 120 gr 7mm AccuBond because the 120 BT performed like the AB would.