I bought some barnes triple shock 300 grain bullets to use this fall before going to africa this coming summer.
I shot a bull elk at a little under 300 yards
with two shots.
The first bullet went thru the lungs and forward on to break the off shoulder.
He took 2 steps back and laid down.
The second bullet went thru both lungs and was under the skin on off side.
The other bullet is what they look like out of the box.
The bull was still trying to suck wind when I got there and very little damage was done to his lungs, small holes.
Will these bullets do better on plains game in africa ? I wont use them on elk again and I cant imagine that they would do well on springbok etc.
Your imput would help Thanks !

What was your muzzle velocity? I'm thinking it was a little on the low side to not open up the TSX. I' not sure what the minimum velocity is for bullet set up but your bullets look like they were there. After 300 yards I think you might have hit the low velocity lack of bullet set up syndrome. Good thing it was a 375 or you might not have recovered your Elk. Congratulations on your Elk by the way.
Take good care,
Dave

By the way you might be better off going with the 270 grain TSX at a little higher velocity.
Dave

No, they won't do any better on plains game under same load conditions.

For your purpose I'd recommend the Nosler 260 grain Accubond.

470--- the chrono muzzel velocity was 2611 average.
I was also told by a local here to drop down to a 250 gr and it would work better.
I have shot many elk and deer here with my 7mm stw with tripple shocks and they performed great.
The wife was thinking of shooting a giraffe so I was opting for heavier grain bullets.
Ill have to do some re-thinking on that I guess.
Thanks

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Originally posted by Buliwyf:
No, they won't do any better on plains game under same load conditions.

For your purpose I'd recommend the Nosler 260 grain Accubond.

+1

I have seen the TSX's do the same in 4 different situations. 240 wby /85 ----7mm RUM 140 gr ----and 168 300 rum. All shots under 200 yards at high velocity impact.

Accubond in 260 will do yah well. If not 260 Partition, who can argue with the PT?


Looks like your bulet struck the elk while traveling at 2030 fps (at 6000" altitude).

300 gr. A Frames have always worked for me, from 20 to 300 yards, from impala to Cape buff.

North Fork makes a nice soft point too.

If you want to stick with 300 gr, which really makes life easier --

look at Norma's Oryx, Graf's has good price on them

I shoot a lot of Barnes, and think that the biggest mistake you can make with them is to load them too slow.

The 375 H&H isn't a fire breathing monster to begin with, and doesn't really have the capacity to drive the heavy TSX's fast enough to get the best performance out of them. Your results are not unpredictable (at least by me).

If you want to stick with TSX's, go with a lighter weight and drive them fast.

cas and all thanks for the imput!
I went with the tripple shocks because they do so well in my 7mm STW, but Im shooting 150 gr. at 3280 fps. So I was already starting to think lighter and faster. But I will play with some bullets that others have mentioned here also.

I used 300 grain Swift A-Frames in my .375 H&H back in September in Namibia with great results.
Kudu, Mountain Zebra, Warthog, Springbok and Gemsbok were taken between 40 and 230 yards.
Only 2 bullets were recovered and they had 89+ % weight retention. It doesn't get much better than that.

I had the same issue and now use the 270 gr barnes. They worked great on everything from the jackel to the eland.