Hi Is it true that 0.30 caliber 180 gr bx or fail safe has enough penetration to down an elephant with brain shot. i've heard and even read somewhere. isn't that exagerated or it is true? regards yes ps. i don't suggest humting jumbo with this caliber ,but am curiuse to know-
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Posts: 1807 | Location: Sweden | Registered: 23 September 2005
How do folks feel generally about the use of Barnes X or Barnes Triple Shock bullets on dangerous, thick skinned game like buffalo, are those bullets a good choice? Saeed, with as many buffalo as you have shot surely you have experience with Barnes bullets.
Saeed: It seems a majority of these bullets have shed their petals. Have they been shot out of some of your 404 wildcats at higher velocity, or has it just been circimstance that they were recovered that way? An impressive collection for sure!
Posts: 1517 | Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho | Registered: 03 June 2004
I have shot several buff with the X bullet and much more plains game with it. You will be completely satisfied with the bullet if your shot placement is good.
For Buff or most anything else ...where a solid is not warrented....I use the Barnes TSX and North Fork's bullets...I cleaned out about ever other producer's bullets I had in favor of those two..
Yes...and according to Barnes I may have been the first to use the TSX on Buff, certainly among the first...in September 2004.
I used a 458 Lott loaded to 2250 fps...out of three Buff taken, I only recovered one bullet...that shot was slightly quartering face on shot..bullet entered one shoulder, went length ways through the Buff breaking the back leg...found against the hide...that bullet weighed 499grains, started out as 500grains, and was a perfectly mushroomed "X".
On side on shots the Lott/TSX completely penetrated...good stuff...I use them in everything from a 308 win to 458 Lott, on everything from Bobcat, Deer, Zebra, Buffalo
I shot a 9' 3" Coastal brown with a 225 gr X bullet at 150 yds through the shoulder lodging in the skin on the oppisite side retaing 85% of the weight. No second shot was necessary. The Barnes x or TSX bullet is a killing bullet and the new MLX will be even better with the new tip and tungston bond in the rear.
Posts: 214 | Location: Montana | Registered: 31 January 2006