I was wondering if the Barnes X 210 gr. would be a pretty good deer load. I'd like to get a little flatter trajectory on my .375 than what can be expected from 270 and 300 gr. bullets......the bc of the 235gr. is a lot higher.
Does anyone have a Barnes Reloading manual? What kind of velocity can be expected from these two bullets? I'm not really tryin' to make the .375 something it's not, but a deer isnt' that big and if the X-bullet were to cause minimal damage to tissue like some of the heavier .375 pills, I reckon a little flatter shooting load wouldn't hurt anything if it's accurate.
Thanks.

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Rod's Place

I'd imagine the 210 gr would shoot very, very flat, I'd take the WAG you'd be in the 3200-3300 fps range, which will roughly give you a 3" high/low out to 300 yds.

The only concern is that even with the X bullet, the increased impact velocity will make for much more violent tissue disruption than with slower loads.

I have found that short light bullets loose velocity very fast and past 300 yards the long heavy bullets will catch up to the short ones and pass them soon after that...I would stay with the monolithic 250 gr. if I wanted more velocity and a flatter shooting load in the 375..

The mono in that weight is quite long and probably longer than a conventional 270 gr. or perhaps even a 300 gr. Thats the beauty of a monolithic..I like the GS bullets much better than the Barnes X which in my opinnion lack quality control which is extremely important in monolithic bullets...

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Ray Atkinson

ray@atkinsonhunting.com
atkinsonhunting.com

You might want to try the 260gr Nosler partition, 2800+fps is possible and it shouldn't be too destructive on deer.