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Originally posted by JJHACK:
Always reduce the weight of your TSX by one level or even more for best results.

If you are shooting 180's drop to 165 or 150. I promise you the results will be spectacular and repeatable. I learned this on accident, and then spoke with the Barnes boys ( and Jessica) only to learn this was a long standing thought by them.

You can not look at the SD of these bullets and compare that in anyway with lead core bullets. The TSX is in a ballistic catagory all it's own. Shoot some lighter TSX bullets at higher speed and watch the show!

Bonded core bullets will almost always show greater impacts then the Monolithic TSX bullets. That is normal. Again you cannot compare them on paper for function. You are correct that the bonded core bullets really provide a definate shudder upon impact and the TSX will often show zero impact, you could almost assume a miss on many of them. This is just the way they work.

The higher velocity and lighter bullets improve the visual impact and shudder of big game with the TSX. The heavier slower bullets reduce the visual impact shudder. Both myself and my hunters have shot 100's of game with various loads using the TSX bullets. The difference is quite large when comparing the visual impact between the heavy slow or light fast TSX's