.223 Barnes 70 Grain TSX Performance

[johnpeg]

Amazing thread..

[Onyx Z]

Anyone tried these with XBR?

[SkyPup]

Here is the video of the 400 pound boar hog getting wacked at 200 yards by a couple of handloaded Barnes 130 grain TSX slugs @ 3,000 fps in the pouring down rain....

Format is MP4 so both PC and Mac and IPad can view it, 32MB download in high res:

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Night%20...oar%20Hog2.mp4


I also put it up on YouTube in lower res:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn21PGQXamw


Be sure to watch it in Full Screen Mode and remember that I am looking at the same video at 6X though the Elcan day optic.


Let me know what you think, it was shot in the middle of a thunderstorm downpour.



The FLIR T-75 is the cats meow for a long range high power thermal clip on or standalone thermal weapon scope, it is unfortunate that virtually everytime I have hunted with it, it has been in the rain, but we had 17 inches of rain here during the month of August!

[SkyPup]

Managed to nail two nice boars tonight using the T-75 at 175 yards with the SIG 716 .308:

[rushca01]

Skypup, are you strictly using 308 these days?

[SkyPup]

No, I have been breaking in a new FLIR T-75 Long Range Thermal Clip-On with a 100mm germanium lens, by long range I mean from 250-600 meters, which is beyond the kill range of my 5.56mm rounds. This thermal scope is an incredible instrument and can easily spot hogs out and ID them over 600 meters and target them too, longest kill so far has been 400 yards....

[SkyPup]

250 yards:

[Kansaswoodguy]

I love the barnes tsx bullets. I loaded some 70g for my brothers .223 rem 1/8 tikka at the lower end according to my barnes book he shot several deer with them with no issues but never recovered a bullet all pass thru's until his boy shot a buck in the backside they recovered the bullet just under the skin at the base of the neck. Yes I mean full length penetration of the animal. It was not fully opened brought the bullistic gel over to his place and shot several more of those loads and a couple more didn't open all the way so we loaded the rest of the 70g at max load data and they seemed to open reliably after that. We did desided to switch to 62g or 53g thinking the .223 may not push the 70g fast enough for reliable opening. My 10 year old took a nice 8 point buck last week with a 53g in .223 rem deer coming straight at us and stopped and looked right at us I got nervous it was about to bolt and my boy was ready so told him put one square in the chest. It went threw part of the front shoulder threw three ribs cut the top of the main hart arteries and must of ended up somewhere in the gut because I never found the bullet and there was no exit wound it did run about 100 yards which I found most impressive considering the main artery of the hart was cut. Great thread

[Blinking Dog]

Put me down as another TSX believer. A few years ago I hunted plains game in Africa and got great results with Federal 180 gr TSX ammo in 30.06. A big Kudu literally folded in place at about 75 yards. I've also had great results on TX white tails using same ammo but in 165 gr. No hogs yet.

I'm referring to the hollow point looking bullet, not the tipped version.

Great expansion, big wound cavities. I can't imagine using anything else.

[SkyPup]

Another 225 pound boar takes the heat from the T-75 tonight!