Thread: Barnes TSX

Got 35odd 50gr tsx I won't be using anytime soon of that's any help

Bit light me thinks. My mate is a meat hunter and he nails big stags. Appreciate the offer.

I have shot a 140lb boar with the 50grn ttsx it wasnt quite dead but wasnt going anywhere with smashed up shoulder on far side and major damage on near side... have dropped a few red hinds in bush with them now,all bang flops. if range is short they are awesome.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

I have shot a 140lb boar with the 50grn ttsx it wasnt quite dead but wasnt going anywhere with smashed up shoulder on far side and major damage on near side... have dropped a few red hinds in bush with them now,all bang flops. if range is short they are awesome.

Gisborne stags at 300m require a bit of smackadooskie. The TSX performs very well. We are out hopefully on 12 November. I nailed some spikers with the 53gr the other night. Cant say enough about the Game Reaper rings. Super rock steady. A sika spiker got a deep furrow across the back of the ears at 230m. No wonder it acted silly when it took off. All I could see was the head.

yeah 300meters,deer and .223 dont even go in the same sentence in my vocabulary ..half that and Im happy. 300 meters is .270w territory for me.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yeah 300meters,deer and .223 dont even go in the same sentence in my vocabulary ..half that and Im happy. 300 meters is .270w territory for me.

Read Mike Bennetts book about Charlie Emerson calmly nailing 3 big red stags at 500 yards with a 222. Dont think those guys lied in their books because such feats were common place. Bennett recounts them mowing down deer at 800 yards with open sighted 303's . Incredible stuff they did with their tools of trade.

Oh I do not doubt it can be done...and has been done..PERSONALLY I prefer to be much closer and much more certain of a clean kill..the room for error or rather the chance of error is so much larger as the range expands...hold the line caller I shall grab a manual and see just what a trebly looks like at 500 yrds. Im picking subsonic .22LR

ok so directly from Nosler manual...Im going to be generous and say he was using a maximum loaded 55Grn load..not the usual 50 grn loading.
so sighted in dead on at 200yards gives
at 500yards
1554fps so good hornet load better than a subsonic .22lr
0.7 seconds of bullet in flight
bullet will drop 51.6 inches below the Xhair.....51.6 devided by 12=4 and a bit feet of drop. so ASSUMING they were neck shot..thats a LOT of holdover. now Mr Bennet may well have carried a rangefinder and been dialing up.... but Im buggered if I have EVER EVER EVER read of anyone doing so until the last 15 years.
the same goes for .303british at 800 yards with open sights....now the SMLE was better than 4" at 100 yards from new..the good ones were 1.5--2 inches so multiply that 2inches by 8 and thats a 16" group in perfect conditions with rock steady rest on non moving animal.

now on this very forum we have a VERY experienced hunter who shoots a lot of animals on regular basis with .224 and even he doesnt stretch barrel out to 500 yards
the grandpamac Fclass thread asked questions and the answers are right there ON paper not flesh...stretch the range and the wee light .224s suck

to each there own,all Im saying is go in eyes open and for crying out loud follow up EVERY shot...

just for grins n giggles as I have manual still here I will look up 50 grn.
yip at 500yrds its down to 1227fps so .22lr super
and its 89.9" of drop =64.8" below Xhairs
wind drift is gobsmacking..10mph =53.6''