.223 Barnes 70 Grain TSX Performance

The electric sausage grinder was going late into the night last night! :smiley:

I nailed him right next to the small live oak tree in the far right upper corner of this pic @ 225 yards:

I just ordered a PVS-14 Gen3 PINNACLE Night Enforcer NV Optic and a Green LDI-DBAL-D2 Class 1 IR Laser with IR Illuminator and a LDI-ITAL Green Laser Pointer from Tactical Night Vision for my SIGs from TNVC.

Sure hope my new NV gear works as well as my Olight M3-X Green LED does @ 225 yards! :smiley:

I had just setup for coyotes about 7:30PM in pitch darkness, no stars as there was a big storm coming up over us. Turned on my PB caller and did a couple of domain calls as there was a lone coyote male howling like mad out behind the house the night before at this time and I thought he’d probably be back again.

No sooner did five minutes pass and a herd of hogs came out of the woods into my little prairie opening.

Turned on the Olight M3-X with green filter and put the crosshairs of my Leopold VR-X 1-4 Pig Plex FireDot on his shoulder and pulled the SIG 556 trigger.

At 225 yards I could hear a nice THWAK when the bullet hit him and put him down, walked out and he started to get up so I shot him again in the head and he was DRT.

It was a big 325 pound boar hog. There were quite a few more that size or bigger in the group.

Timely. I’m using the ASYM version of this on Wednesday on hogs. Glad to see it’s a good choice.

Good luck and post some pics if you smack a snacker with the Barnes TSX…:wink:

Could not go out target practicing today because it rained all day long, however I took the SIG 556 with an Olight M-20 Crimson out after dark and immediately shot this hog in the head at 100 yards DRT. :smiley:

How did you mount the Olight to your scope? Wonder will it fit in one of the rail mounts? I have a green light on order but its on back order right now, it comes with a rail mount, but I would like to have a red light for another gun.

also I have been pretty happy with the 62 grain TSX over 26.5 grains of TAC as fired from a Colt Carbine, its actually quite accurate even though I struggle with the Colt trigger.

It is better to mount your light out in front to avoid flashback through your scope:

Postmortem is a brain stem/C1 hit…instant death, DRT.

Man this ITT PVS14-17 is awesome, one shot @ 255 yards in the head with a handloaded Barnes TSX 70 grain dropped right there! :smiley:

Wish I had this nice piece of NV gear 5 years ago…

Here are some pics of my SIG 556 Night Vision Hog Killing build with a Shooting Sight Match Grade Trigger, ACE Folder, Troy BattleRail and Eotech 556 NV holosight, Eotech 3X Magnifier, and ITT PVS-14 Pinnacle Night Enforcer.

Coyotes and Hogs tremble 24/7/365 now. [:D]

Here is a night pic through the ITT PVS-14 & Eotech to my feeder at the live oak out 225 yards:

Darn, nice looking pictures and setup. Only thing missing is a suppressor. : P (Ok, my dream package. . one of these days)

I’ve killed a couple white tail. They didn’t go far.

Never was able to recover any bullets. yet. :wink:

I’m sold.

I shot a whitetail at about 150 yards with this bullet in a 16in ar and it went right down. When I got to it the exit wound was about the size of a baseball. I too am sold on this set up.

Keep us updated Skypup, I’d be interested to hear how that NV setup has worked for you. Anything you’d do differently?

Well, I mounted the USGI 3X Magnifier onto the front Objective lens of my ITT Night Enforcer PVS-14 and behind the NV Eotech it works beautiful. Here are some photos but they do not do justice to just how damn great this setup works.

It is 225 yards out to my game feeder cam tree from my stand. Here is what it looks like though just the NV Eotech with no magnifier:

Here is what it looks like through the NV Eotech with the 3X Magnifier mounted behind it on the PVS-14 on a very dark dark:

Here is the same with the 3X Magnifier but using an Olight M-20 Crimson Red LED to light up the area:

I get one of my 850nm IR illuminators later on this week so will update with pics of that once I get it setup.

Also, I ordered an A-Alpha helmet from TNVC with an OPS-Core VAS shroud and a USGI Rhino mount:

The helmet is great and the PVS really works great with my IR Lasers, but I went ahead and got a more structurally stronger and better mount and arm.

I got the Wilcox G24 mount with the Wilcox PVS-14 Arm instead of the Nortos USGI Rhino mount and will install same soon.

Holy crap SkyPup, from the photos to the equipment…awesome!

That helmet mounted NV setup works simply outstanding with the LDI DBAL-I2 visible and invisible IR lasers!:smiley:

The helmet mount makes it easy to scan and use the lasers, or to quickly dismount the PVS-14 and mount it on the picitanny rail.

Great posts skypup! I always love to see how you’re keeping the hog population under control! And the first hand info on the performance of different ammo is a great resource. Keep it up!