Hunting & Fishing Barnes 85 TSX recovered

[mdesign]

My boy shot his deer at 283 yds and we recovered the bullet. The deer was quartering towards him slightly and the bullet entered right behind the left front leg and lodged in the right rear hip.

She traveled about 10 yds after the hit and had extensive damage. His load is 45gr of H4350 with 210 primers in WW brass.

 

[SNOW]

Re: Barnes 85 TSX recovered

243 right? I am shooting it with great results. Broadside deer will not stop one!!

 

[Ghogs Nightmare]

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Good shooting, an nice recovery not to mention photo....thanks for sharing

 

[MikeeBooshay]

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Great picture! I shoot those 85 TSX too, from a 243. They usually go thru and thru on a WT or Axis. I shot one Axis last year, quartering towards me, from right front shoulder, thru the boiler room and out the far side. Good blood trail.

We have been keeping what bullets we can find, have to take pictures and post, I know we have several Accubonds, Corelokts and one Vmax ( not much of that left - head shot on an Axis).

Mikee

 

[mdesign]

Re: Barnes 85 TSX recovered

Yes, came from a 243. We don't recover many, maybe 6 or 8 of them in twenty years of hunting but they are all tell an interesting story of the hunt from the perspective of the bullet.

 

[BPaige]

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around 3200 fps?

 

[THUNDERBOLT68]

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i uas the 168gr in wsm they are deadly beat bullet for hunting out there

 

[ccoker]

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I believe that's the same load I use for my sons 243 (old Sako)
I chronoed 3150

wicked deadly on hogs and deer
nice shot!

 

[knockemdown]

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Somewhere, Nobody is grinning...

 

[JCH]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: knockemdown</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Somewhere, Nobody is grinning...</div></div>

and drinking a tottie

 

[mdesign]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BPaige</div><div class="ubbcode-body">around 3200 fps? </div></div>

I'm not sure, never shot it over a Chrony. It's a very inexpensive barrel and we did some basic round robin OCW load development and focused in on the load with the least amount of vertical.

After a little tuning, it will almost put them all in one hole at 100 and shoots an easy inch or a litle better at 300yds.

The boys just love the death out of it. A real confidence builder! To make the shot, he adjusted the bipod for the tall grass, tighten the podlock and Boom.

If it would have had a rack the size of his smile it would have been a world record.

 

[BPaige]

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thanks I was just curious about the velocity as I'm pushing the 85's at 3400 with 44.0g of IMR4007 SSC (6mm rem).

I'm sure your boy had a great time with dad. The gf and I are going out friday hoping to get her first deer, hope everything works out as well for us.

 

[LWILLIAMS]

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I know a big bodied mule deer will not stop them either. Never recovered a TSX yet and there are alot of people up here who tell me the 243 is to small for our deer. Knock on wood but I havn't lost a deer yet.

 

[GUNNER75]

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Only people who have not hunted with the .243 say that.

 

[psinclair]

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.243 is exellent deer medicine....IMO. Tell your son congrats on a great shot Greg!!

 

[user]

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Does not realy expand that much egh?

 

[lovetsx]

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Here is my recovered T-TSX from a headshot. Love TSX. I have been shooting them for three years now. Every deer drops in it's tracks. I shoot 25-06

http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1474982#Post1474982

Guess I put my post in the section.

 

[ccoker]

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TSX rule
like I posted earlier, I chronoed the 85 at 3150 out of my son's 243, an old Sako

I have killed a number of hogs and deer with them out of my 6.8
all one shot clean kills, never recovered one

Bill Wilson did some testing one a dead hog
through the shoulders of a 200 lb pig
took some effort to be able to recover them
go to the bottom of this page
http://www.wilsoncombat.com/68project.asp

 

[lovetsx]

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The only reason I recovered mine was it traveled through all the bone in the skull, tumbled, flipped and the petals caught the hide, the hide expanded out and absorbed the shock. I cut the skull cap off with a knife. It was shattered. No need for hacksaw...