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Details, please!!!!! Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Hey Chuck, don't you know you are supposed to load those the other way around  Reloader | |||
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Whitetail shot by sister in-law. 7mm-08 120gr TSX at 3k muzzle velocity. 320yds broadside, bullet entered behind the on shoulder but did not hit major bone. Absolutely NOTHING between her and the target. Bullet turned 70 degrees inside and ended up in the flank on the offside. It definately tumbled inside. A second shot through both shoulders ended the deal. I'm as big a TSX fan as the next guy. Just food for thought | |||
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Couple of thoughts... 1) nothing is 100%... 2) I go thru the simple process of making sure all my barnes X actually do have a hole in the tip and that it is unclogged. I keep a strand of steel wire on my bench and just put it into the tip to make sure the whole is there and free of debris. Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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You see this too often I think. Maybe the bullets being light for their length has something to do with the tumbling phenomena. FMJ military bullets commonly tumble also. Leftists are intellectually vacant, but there is no greater pleasure than tormenting the irrational. | |||
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This past week I shot an average size Mule Deer Buck in Colorado with my .270 WSM. I was using an 140 grain Barnes TSX loaded at 3260 fps. The shot was a lazered 285 yards. The bullet was a double lung hit with a .277 size hole at entrance and about a silver dollar size at exit, through a rib. The Deer jumped straight up twice and flopped dead. I don't know if it tumbled or not, but was very pleased with the performance of both bullet and rifle. Good shooting. phurley | |||
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The bent tip indicates the bullet was not stable when it struck the animal. Looks to me like it must have hit something on the way to the animal. | |||
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I wondered about that. It seems pretty chewed up along the sides too. Is that just from scraping sideways along bone? I wonder if a TTSX would have opened and performed better under the same circumstances. _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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Last year when I shot my eland in Namibia the skinners found three of the .375 TSX's that hit it (out of a total of five.) Two were opened up like in the ads, but one was just barely opened up. I think it was the first shot, which was a bit low, slicing through the very bottom of the heart, which didn't quite open as advertised. As I was shooting through light brush, I suspect that shot must have hit something en route to the eland, thus causing the "failure" observed. Of course, the eland is dead. | |||
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