I anyone loading this bullet in their 7mm RM? If so how's is it working?

i am thinking of trying this myself!

Kamiah, just got back from the range this evening and tried some in a 7mag barrel I have for one of my Sauer 202 takedowns.

I've been waiting on a custom in 7mm, but alas it is very late in delivery. I ordered the tipped TSX's as soon as they became available, in anticiaption of this custom 7. Unbelievably, I don't actually have a 'dedicated barrel' rifle in a 7 cal.

Sorry for the babbling, but in short, the damn things shot awesome. I used a load I had developed for that barrel with 140 gr Sierra Game Kings, pushed it up a couple of grains, cause in my experience that works with TSX's, and voila'--1/2 minute at 200 yards. The TSX's impacted about 1 1/2" higher than the SGK's, but just as tight of groups--actually a bit tighter today, but I shot them in the second volley, and maybe I was a little more settled down, as well as maybe my rifle???

I didn't have my chrono today, but figure they're right in the zone with my SGK's. I'm anxious to put one of the new Tipped TSX's into a game animal, I'm expecting good things.

Regards--Don

Sounds like they shoot good in your rifle Don. I am going to give them a try. I have a Spring Black Bear hunt coiming up in SE Alaska this Spring and am consssidering using them.

Regards,
Fred

From what I've seen in media testing done by others the Tipped TSX is a much more reliably expanding bullet than previous Barnes efforts.

I have not seen anyone succede in making a Tipped TSX "close up" it's nose and FMJ through media, so I'd be inclined to say that
they have that problem licked once and for all.

I have two boxes of the tipped 140's
and look forward to seeing just how much RL22 I can squeeze in behind them in my Heavy Hart barreled 7mmMag.

AD

Kamiah, they definitely shoot well, and I would think they would be a hammer on black bear. You could reach out a long way if you needed to, but I think they would open up at (typical) close ranges you encounter with bear hunting too!

Let us know what you end up with.