bigfellascott wrote:Bigjobss wrote:Partially, neck shot I recovered most minus some of the jacket which blew out the back with a small exit hole and the heart shot it clipped the rib on the way out and left some of the jacket behind.
Below is the neck shot projectile, front on shot so base of neck/top of shoulder, both deer and projectile were absolutely pancacked. Shot was at around 150m. Would not trust this on a big a animal through the shoulder.
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Noice, yeah I would find something with a bit more copper in the base for the more solidly boned stuff
Barnes TTSX have served that purpose alright for me so far, great penetration and I have never recovered a projectile but they do provide excellent wound channels. I often visit the debate of whether I prefer the energy to stay in the animal or lose some but create an exit hole and blood trail. At the moment I have settled on exit hole because the 300wm brings much more energy than is needed so a little loss cant hurt and I havent lost an animal with the TTSX (yet).
Only issue I had was a dog at 15m where I needed a second shot, which suprised the crap out of me, I reckon it was too close and too light of animal and the projectile went straight through with no expansion.