Thread: Barnes .224 50 TSX vs 55 TSX

I've never tried tsx in .224 but have and still do in 7mm mag I've found if I drive them over 2950fps the petals start coming off but they still do the job the down side for me is the tsx leaves my barrel dirty even after only 2-3 shots the Barnes tsx 160gn in 7mag does kill well and does penetrate deep so judging by how they perform in 7mag even though 223 is smaller I think the tsx would be an ideal bullet for deer size animals as well you don't get a lot of meat damage not even in wild cattle size animals with 7mm sometimes I think too much thought goes into projectiles and things start to blurr as far as projectiles go . I was looking for a good allrounder for the 7mag so I tried many projectiles a lot good a lot not so good but I ended up back with the common old fb 154gn soft nose it works as good as some and better than some so a good all rounder and cheap also and deadly accurate out to 600yds which is all I've shot to when I have tested it. As far as the Vmax goes I shoot 55gn Vmax in my 22-250 and only Vmax for ferals but i'd stall at using them on deer size animals they damage large areas of meat because they blow up shallow although some people say they have had them go right through small pigs but I have never had that happen to me we have a large wild dog problem over here and I've never had a Vmax go right through one of them and I've shot hundreds some people confuse Amax with Vmax i'm led to believe Amax is a slightly harder bullet than Vmax I've found the Vmax comes apart rapidly once it enters the animal especially at high speed mine run at 3414fps. ( NOTE) the tsx are expensive over here so I presume they're expensive over there as well