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Anyone tried the new Barnes MRX bullet in a .300 Win Mag? I like the way it looks but have not heard anything about it. | ||
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Just tried some. Not as accurate as the comparable weight in the normal TSX. I'd like to try the Xp3, but not available here in Australia, yet. | |||
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I have found them equal to the TSX on both the range and on game. Remember, forgivness is easier to get than permission. | |||
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Maybe it's just me but the TRX seems way too complicted a bullet, much like the Failsafe, just too many parts. Besides the price, what real advantage does it offer over the TSX? Sure a bit better BC but if your shooting under 400yds, just doesn't seem like it's going to matter much?  LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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Good stir there fredj.... But the MRX is no more complicated then any other ballistic tip or even the Nosler partition... Three parts make up the bullet, the copper case, the tungsten lower core and the delrin tip... The same number of components in the others... The advantage that becomes obvious with the MRX is it's designed more like a partition with the tungsten core being "partitioned" from the working end of the bullet. The ballistic delrin tip is just that, improve the ballistics of the bullet. Ken.... "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. " - Ronald Reagan | |||
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I think the tip is there to also help open up the bullet easier on smaller, thin skin game unlike the Failsafe. On my first trip to Africa for plains game I took a 308 Win with 165gr TBBC and a 270WSM with 140gr Failsafes. The PH ask me to leave the 270WSM in my room as they did not like the Failsafes because they do not always open on smaller game. We have read reports on the AR of this happening with some of the X bullets on some smaller game. | |||
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Very good point on the performance on smaller game army aviator.... Ken.... "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. " - Ronald Reagan | |||
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My wife and I shot some game with the Federal 308 factory 180 MRX in Zim a few weeks ago in Zim. I planed on us using the Federal factory 165 gr Trophy Bonded Bearclaw for all the 308 shooting. But when I was visiting Aleko at Heritage Arms in SLC I picked up a few boxes out of curosity. When doing the final zero check of the 308 I fired a few rounds. To my suprise the rounds hit perfect at 100 yards and 3 shots were under an inch. So I took some to Zim. She shot 2 Kudu bulls with them, and a giraffe in the head. Good performance. Recovered one bullet from a kudu shot at about 100 yards of so slightly facing toward us. Bullet lost one petal weighed 167.6 grains. I shot a bushbuck broad side at @100 yards, I hit the front of the shoulder, he went right down. She shot a zebra and a wildebeest with the 165TB load and it did excellent as well. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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The delrin tip not only opens up faster, but also opens up the bullet to a wider diameter. The MRX's will create a wider wound channel than a TSX will. | |||
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Well, it is a bit more complicated than a Swift or NP. I assume the core needs to be machined then bonded then a cav. punched or machined then a plastic tip, yada, yada. All that for what seems a bit higher BC. I am just wondering if it goes by the way of the Failsafe, which was aslo complicated w/ a steel insert, etc. I'll probably be happy using NPs or NorthForks for all of my hunting, but it's good to see manuf. trying to make a "better" bullet. LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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