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What would this used for? Federal's website says for medium sized game? Cliping along at those velocities, what would it do to a speed goat or smaller mule deer?

Planning a goat/mule hunt in Wyo next year and would like to use a single bullet. No question the old blue box federal will do the trick, but this one has caught my eye.
 
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My brother is using them in his 270 WSM with excellent 1 shot kills on Deer and Antelope. If placed in the chest cavity you get plenty of internal damage and a small exit. If you hit them around the margins they will leave a huge exit gash and a shower of hair everywhere.
My brother was going to try them on elk this year too if the right Heart/Lung shot presented itself. Great accuracy and super flat trajectory.
 
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I wouldn't be afraed to shoot a deer with a 110gr bullet using my 270 Win.
 
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Jon, I've shot a bunch (regular 270) and they are VERY accurate for me. I've shot some GA does with them, which probably averaged about 100 lbs live weight. Regardless of entry point, e.g., on the shoulder or not, they have tended to leave almost undetectable entries and pretty small exits as Snellstrom mentioned. I have had this same dynamic with the 130 gr version.

Bobby Tomek who posts here has let me know that the TTSX is actually a 'stouter' bullet than the TSX....I haven't been able to gleen any information from Barnes website, what with Remington buying them and all, it is on hiatus I guess...I really thought the point was that it would be the same bullet as the TSX with a larger hollow point section and the tip added to aid in expansion, so far this has not been my on game experience, and whatever is happening, the exits with them have been consistently smaller than with the same weight TSX's for me. I suspect Bobby is right, but again, I don't have any intel on it myself, just my field experience which is around 20 critters, a dozen deer, including a couple pretty big ones (175 lb LW) and several 200 lb zone hogs..

I think they would kill an antelope just fine, they have certainly killled everything I shot, however blood trails have been minimal, but frankly unnecessary too.....they are really probably too hard for an Pronghorn, but it doesn't take a lot to kill one of them in my experience....

A big muley, well--I'm sure it would kill them too, and usually Muley's are in an area where you can watch em for a minute after the shot, so a huge blood trail may not be that significant if you didn't happen to get one. The bullet is certainly tough enough for a big deer.

Let us know what you think, I might actually steer you towards the regular TSX in the same weight at this point based on what I've seen in the field, but heck, I drill out the tips on sub 338 caliber TSX's that I use, so I'm obviously a little over the top on this stuff.....of course there is a 110 Accubond available now....sweeeeeeet!
 
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