Barnes ttsx mushroom ?

[PAGOAT]

This is the bullet I got out of my moose. I expected more of a mushroom I guess. Is this the results others have had with the ttsx ? It's a 168 out of a 300 wsm.

 

[yoda]

It expanded fully and the wings broke off by the looks of things. A high velocity impact with a 100gr partition out of my 25-06 looks pretty similar, front portion completely gone

 

[shootbrownelk]

I've only recovered a couple of Barnes X bullets from my .375 H&H. One was a 235 gr.X bullet on a bull elk, the other was a 270 gr. X bullet from a bull moose, both were picture perfect mushrooms. I haven't recovered any .30 caliber x bullets used in my 30.06 that I can remember. All were pass throughs.

 

[Washington Hunter]

7mm 120 grain ttsx from my daughter's 7mm-08, cow elk at 250 yards. Muzzleloader velocity 2800 fps

 

[Brian in Montana]

I've never used them, myself. A good friend of mine shot a cow elk at about 200yds with them a week ago. They mushroomed well and did the job. He was using a 180grn bullet in his 300WM.

 

[Hummer]

Barnes VOR-TX 120 gr. tipped tsx in 7mm-08

Interesting observations, thanks. Two weeks ago I used the factory Barnes VOR-TX for the first time, the 120 gr. tipped tsx in 7mm-08. It was on a mature Shiras bull moose in his bed, at 42 yards. He was curled right so the first shot was quartering through the right front just forward of the shoulder as this was my best shot to avoid an exit through the stomach. It broke the top of the heart and he almost didn't get up. When he stood the second shot was a square broadside through both lungs just behind the shoulder. The bull took three steps, fell and expired. Both bullets passed through completely with minor damage to one rib. In the meat cutting process I found two tiny bits of the blue plastic bullet tip, and one tiny fragment of copper, all about 1/16" diameter.

Whatever that little bullet did as it passed through was impressive enough for me to take elk hunting tomorrow. I've long been a fan of heavy bullets from my .30-06, 200, 210, & 220 gr. RN, and 180 gr. Partitions. They work so reliably well. But now I have a modern lightweight rifle. The suppressed Adirondak in 7mm-08 was so soft in recoil and report that the cow and calf lying with the bull didn't even get up as he was shot and died.

 

[PAGOAT]

After putting the bullet on a scale it weighs 110.5 grains from 168 so like said above it lost a few pieces of the mushroom. I hit the bull hard quarter away in the last rib back and found the bullet in the neck on the other side. Very good penetration, I think I'll try them some more now.

 

[Flatrock]

This is a 180 grain TTSX .300 Win Mag on an elk. Performed perfectly. Lost about half a grain or so.

 

[nuevo_eph]

Looking at the picture I think it lost ALL of its pedals (which form the mushroom), doing its job at the speed.

After putting the bullet on a scale it weighs 110.5 grains from 168 so like said above it lost a few pieces of the mushroom. I hit the bull hard quarter away in the last rib back and found the bullet in the neck on the other side. Very good penetration, I think I'll try them some more now.

 

[jryoung]

After putting the bullet on a scale it weighs 110.5 grains from 168 so like said above it lost a few pieces of the mushroom. I hit the bull hard quarter away in the last rib back and found the bullet in the neck on the other side. Very good penetration, I think I'll try them some more now.

what was the speed at impact? My Dad had a similar situation on a bull with a 180 TSX from a .300WBY. Velocity was still north of 3,000fps at impact though, so petal removal is expected.

 

[PAGOAT]

I have no idea on speed of the bullet, he was 30 ish yards so it was moving along pretty good.

 

[3855WIN]

I shot a mature mule deer with the original X bullet years ago. It killed him plenty good, but I couldn’t find where the bullet entered. I prefer a lighter constructed bullet for deer and antelope. The X appears just about perfect for moose and elk.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Shot my pronghorn w/ a 140 TTSX this year. I don't know how it mushroomed as it was a clean pass through at 275 yards. It did take about a 3 inch by 1 inch chunk of rib with it on the exit, along with most of the lungs.

I'm sold.

 

[PsRpOiGrRiAtM]

That's actually one of the things I love most about the Barnes TSX/TTSX bullets, is that you either get a great mushroom with large frontal diameter, or you get 4 rather large chunks of shrapnel spinning off and causing more damage while the blunt meplat of the leftover shank continues to plow through the tissue much like a wadcutter.

 

[jryoung]

I have no idea on speed of the bullet, he was 30 ish yards so it was moving along pretty good.

Yep, gotta assume it was still @ or just north of 3,000fps, about what my Dad's bullet was moving at. Too fast for the petals to hold on.

 

[mdhunter]

This is also a 168 Barnes ttsx out of a .300wsm. The elk was DRT @ 300 yds.

I haven’t weighed the remnants but I am not sure what else it could do.

 

[cfree]

180 grain TTSX from a .300 Weatherby. Recovered on opposite hide from bull bison shot at 80 yards. Somewhere in the 3050 to 3100 fps range I'm guessing. Performed perfectly, although surprised they didn't pass thru at that range. Tough animals!

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[Elkmagnet]

I pulled this out of the wife's bull three days ago its only the second ttsx I have ever recovered. It lost one pedal.
It's a 30cal 168gr ttsx out of a 300 win mag. muzzle velocity is 3210fps it impacted at 200yd Which puts the impact velocity around 2772fps and energy at 2865ftlbs.

 

[Elkmagnet]

Honestly who cares if it loses 5 petals once they're in the body cavity its basically like buckshot going through the vitals and the shank is likely to still exist.
The only issue I would have would be one getting stuck in the Burger grinder

 

[Smtn10pt]

Late to this one but my 180 gr ttsx looked exactly like PA Goats. Alaskan bull moose, 300 RUM at 75 yards. I found the tip and all the petals on the entrance hole, just under the hide, the remaining portion was up in the bulls neck (steep quartering away)