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Finally recovered from my Colorado elk hunt and had some interesting results. With less than an hour and a half left in the first hunt, I scored on a small bull. The shot was appx., 100 yds with a 300 WM loaded with 73 gr of RL-22 and a 180 gr Barnes TSX. Shot placement was just behind the left front leg at a slightly quartering away angle. Bullet crashed through a rib, then made mush of the lungs and heart, crashed into the upper right front leg and lodged just under the skin of the right shoulder. Here is a picture of the bullet I recovered.
I just got around to weighing the recovered bullet against a new one and according to my scale, there was zero weight loss! At least on my hunt, the Barnes TSX performed exactly as Barnes advertises. My 300 WM shoots them well with a 2" group at 200Yds so needless to say I will not be switching bullets any time soon.
After the bull was hit he looked confused and tried to take a step so I hit him again. It was a glancing hit that took out three ribs and his left front should and he fell, rolled down the steep hill about twenty yards and was stone dead when I got to him. Just about as clean as it comes.
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I just got around to weighing the recovered bullet against a new one and according to my scale, there was zero weight loss! At least on my hunt, the Barnes TSX performed exactly as Barnes advertises. My 300 WM shoots them well with a 2" group at 200Yds so needless to say I will not be switching bullets any time soon.
After the bull was hit he looked confused and tried to take a step so I hit him again. It was a glancing hit that took out three ribs and his left front should and he fell, rolled down the steep hill about twenty yards and was stone dead when I got to him. Just about as clean as it comes.
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