Has anyone used then on whitetail?

Tested them. The sabots they come with suck, very hard to shove down the barrel. I pitched them and used TC sabots. They load much easier and held an inch at 100. The bullets expanded well at tested impact range/velocity. Hunted with them a couple of times, but no Bambis volunteered to be test subjects.

Yes, I have used them. Shot awesome from my traditions vortek. I picked the 290 t-ez, they are the blue tipped ones with the blue sabot. The new blue ones are called super glide sleeves, which are the ones on the tc shockwaves. It is the original yellow sabots from barnes that you need to hammer down the barrel. This fall, I head shot a big doe at 100 yds, dead on impact. As fast as I could reload, a second big one came out of the woods, and I head shot that one too. It ran like 60 yds, because it was not center mass in the spinal column. Awesome bullets if your gun shoots them well.

I used the 250gr barnes Xpander MZ or "flying shotglass" for a couple years in michigan on whitetails. I found them to be accurate and very deadly on a couple of whitetail does. Short obvious blood trails were the norm.

Last year when I decided to use my muzzle loader to fill a cow moose tag I decided to use the 250 barnes expander because I had about 30 of them left over from michigan. Accuracy with 2 777 magnum pellets in my 209x50 encore was very good. Using a williams peep I was keeping 3 shot groups from 2.5-3" at 100 yards, and thats about as good as I can do with any peep sight at that range. The fiberoptc beads cover up quite a bit of the target.

I shot a large cow moose at 70 yards quartering toward me. entered at teh point of the shoulder and exited out the far ribs. Moose did a little shuffle and dropped. I was very impsed that that big hollow point was able to exit after traveling thru a lot of moose. I did see where it had shed at least one petal in the front shoulder but still very respectable performance.

I wouldn't hesitate to use any barnes sabot for any sized game after seeing this kind of performance. A full size moose is quite a test medium.

Yes. I use 300gr expanders in my 50 cal over 100gr of 777. I have shot a few deer with them and all but one fell within 20 yards.

The one ran over 100 yards however I can't be sure of shot placement. Temps were single digit and falling fast so I gutted her and threw her in my friends truck without doing a post-mortem. I gave that deer to my friend, as he didn't shoot one that year and I had plenty.

I use the 275 grain .500 saboted expander in a .54 cal remington 700 ML. Blows through both shoulders and leaves a golf ball sized exit hole. deer DRT! Have shot 4 with this set up-- all with the same results.

Have used the 245gr Spitfire, and Barnes .45 (.40)
Expander type bullets in the Savage 10MLII with
the .50 barrel and a .45 barrel. They could be
considered "overkill" for whitetails. I wouldn't
hesitate to use them on anything in North
America up to the big bears.

I'm trying some tomorrow hope they changed them. I ahve some different one from T/C.

quote:

Originally posted by miles58:
Tested them. The sabots they come with suck, very hard to shove down the barrel. I pitched them and used TC sabots. They load much easier and held an inch at 100. The bullets expanded well at tested impact range/velocity. Hunted with them a couple of times, but no Bambis volunteered to be test subjects.

I haven't tried them on whitetail, but I killed a nice mule deer buck with a 250gr. Barnes back in December. Worked as advertised.

Planning to shoot the same bullet at a black bear on Vancouver Island next week.

I just HATE paying a dollar or more for a bullet to kill a deer.. I got ahold of Veral Smith at LBT and had him make me a mold that drops a smooth side, spitzer out of the mold at 453.. one quick trip through a Lee sizer puts it at 452, no lube necessary, weighs 317 gr, into a black MMT sabot and it kills deer certifiable graveyard dead.. for about one and a half cents each. Les

Yes I took my best buck ever with one of them dropped in His tracks.As for loading hard try the new Barnes E-Z load groups are impressive from encore Pro Hunter

Bought about 500 each of the 290TMZs and 245 Spit Fires 4-5yrs ago on close out at Cabelas website. Wish i had been able to buy the 250 version of the TMZ. Cost was IIRC .60c ea.

They both shoot excellent out of my Encore 209x50 and with a fair amount of work, they also shoot excellent out of my 10ML-II.

Have read dozens 100% reliable first hand acounts of both buulets efectiveness on deer, and would not hezitate to use them on any game in North America, especially if shot at 10ML-II speeds of waaaaay above 2300fps.

I have the old TC Black Diamond. The TMZ's loaded very tight in it but shot well for the one time I could load one without mopping the bore. I asked Barnes Technical Service about it and they said most if not all TC's are tight and should use the Blue Sabot TMZ-EZ. I tried them and groups improved and they load slick. My son's Austin Halleck shoots and loads the yellow sabots into remarkable tiny groups.

Just some additional info on " Premuim Bullets ", you might consider using with a Sabot.

" Barnes 300 grn Blue Tip TSX (.458 )" , tested @ different velocities.


http://forums.accuratereloadin...3/m/2861098911/p/161




PAPI