re: $1000 to Spend on a New Rifle - Update

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223 for elk, bear, etc is dumbass

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I hunt with a cannon. You don't have to convince me. It's a very interesting study to read.

A serious rifleman and good bullets can do damage with most any caliber.
My most recent experience with a 22 caliber was helping track on deer shot by a .22-250. No idea what bullet. The shooter felt strongly that he’d hit both buck and doe, but no blood was found. We put my friends threat blood dog on the trail. He ended up getting gored by the buck. No buck or doe recovered. Vet bill to sew up the blood dog.

TSX are great bullets, and the TTSX are even better.
I stayed away from the Barnes bullets for a while after an experience with the original X bullet. I stalked in on a bedded mule deer to sixty yards. He stood from his bed and I shot him through the lungs with a 270 WBY mag. He fell back in his bed. We could find no entrance hole until we skinned him out. I just wanted more expansion for whitetails back home.

I’ll probably kill some deer with a TTSX out of my 257 this fall.

I gotcha. I'm shooting the 130gr through the 6.5 CM. These are at 2770fps.

Is it this thread?


I only looked at a couple pages so far.