Barnes 55gr TTSX

[ssyoumans]

Picked some of these up the other day. Loaded 1 up and fired it into some water to see how it performed, yes, I know water isn't the same as bone and tissue, but I was bored this weekend.

Anyhow, lined up (4) 1 gallon jugs of water and a Tiddy Cat jug filled with water. Was surprised it went through all 4 jugs, approx 26", and bounced off the Tiddy cat jug onto the ground.

Pretty decent penetration and expansion, note 1 petal broke off. Velocity around 3,000 fps from 16" carbine. These are good for 1:9" twist rifles.

 

[moonzapa]

Impressive!!!

How far away did you fire these bullets from the jugs? I've tried using the Barnes TTSX bullets in my 30-06 and 280 and have had rather poor results in accuracy.

 

[ssyoumans]

This was just from 20 - 25 yards off handed. I haven't tried these for accuracy, but the 62gr TSX was around 1.5" at 100 yards. No worse than most of my other reloads from the S&W AR15.

I'm sure you read you really have to get the fouling out from traditional bullets before trying the Barnes bullets or accuracy suffers. I clean mine with Sweet 7.62 before accuracy testing with Barnes bullets and allow for 5 fouling shots.

The only other caliber I have tried Barnes in is 243, with the 85gr TSX, but again didn't spend time working up an accuracy load with it as I decided to use SST's this year for hunting (took a 7 pt buck with one).

 

[mtrmn]

I used the non-tipped flat base 55 gr for my water test, with results similar to yours--4 jugs and a perfect 4-petal mushroom.

Mine grouped about 1" in a 1/9 16" bbl carbine

 

[blarby]

I'd like to see one more........

Can you do one of these setups @ 100 yards, if you get bored ?


Nice work, BTW..

I plan on trying the new nosler defense sometime later in 2013 the same way.