>I heard that all long range
>ammo is crap at short
>distances. Makes it
>hard to use that stuff
>when hunting. Who knows
>if your shot will be
>100 yards or 600 yards.
>
This is from a Barnes rep...
Hi Donald,
The window of expansion has been slid down on the LRX?s in order to get expansion at longer ranges. However in high speed magnums, you can now break petals from the bullets in very close range scenarios. Honestly I've seen the high impact testing, and they still perform exceedingly well with all the petals gone ? 65% weight retention and about 1.5 diameter expansion on the remaining shank. That's a very best case scenario for a Nosler Partition at normal impact velocities ? they break down more under your high velocity conditions at close range.
The .277 cal 129gr LRX requires 1700fps at impact for expansion and we test them up to 2600fps for 100% weight retention. Typically they'll go a few hundred fps above this number without petal loss ? we just don't keep shooting until petals begin to break.
If that has you worried the 140 TSX loaded in our factory ammo has a 2100fps ? 2900fps window. They shouldn't break even at close ranges with this one.
Thanks, Ty