Bullet Performance Database

[Tex .416]

You shot my college mascot

You better not go over that yearly bag limit !!

Cheers and Nice shooting. You are seriously about to make me get a box of 130ttsx to try in my 16 inch 308. I wonder what I should expect? I tried 168s and it was just to slow and was lack luster on a buck. 130s should open up a little more.

Kingsville?

Javelinas have a special place in my heart as my first “big” animal, when I was seven years old. Also the ranch owner’s son had one as a pet. We had great fun with that pet javi. He was as friendly as any dog or cat and quite smart. I have a painting of a javi in my bedroom as a reminder of that first animal many decades ago. I very rarely shoot them, only three in the last fifteen years. This one was very sick with some weird white growths on the snout (shows as white and not mud caked up), curled hooves, a bloated stomach, kneeling to eat. Whatever was going on with it, I cannot stand to see animals suffering and do not want it spreading to other animals.

A cull deer with hooves like these hooves was full of worms. The growths on the snout is very strange.

 

[Tex .416]

You shot my college mascot

You better not go over that yearly bag limit !!

Cheers and Nice shooting. You are seriously about to make me get a box of 130ttsx to try in my 16 inch 308. I wonder what I should expect? I tried 168s and it was just to slow and was lack luster on a buck. 130s should open up a little more.

And yes, give the 130’s a try. Initially, they were for the kids to use. After testing them, the performance was so consistently good, the 130 TTSX has become my go to load for deer and pigs here. Mature bucks average 225# on real scales pre-rut. Pigs max out at 250# on the scales.

 

[Daryl S]

Should get 3,000+fps in the 16". H4895 maybe? Barnes #4 has the TSX BT running 3,183fps with that powder in a 24"bl. AA2460 and Win.748 show over 3,200fps in the long barrel. I do not have data for the 130gr. TTSX, but might be on their web data, or maybe Hodgdon's annual manual for 2025.
If you don't have that data, I could PM it.

 

[dchum]

Should get 3,000+fps in the 16". H4895 maybe? Barnes #4 has the TSX BT running 3,183fps with that powder in a 24"bl. AA2460 and Win.748 show over 3,200fps in the long barrel. I do not have data for the 130gr. TTSX, but might be on their web data, or maybe Hodgdon's annual manual for 2025.
If you don't have that data, I could PM it.

I do not reload. So will have to be the 130 factory vor-tx load. Luckily it’s somewhat available

Box velo of 3100? So that’s probs 24 inch barrel. I’m think 2800 maybe.

 

[Daryl S]

2,800 sounds about right, maybe a tich more.

 

[Tex .416]

Cull buck
Montana Rifle Company 1999
.308 Win Barnes TTSX 130
47.5 Varget
F210
MV 3000 - 3020
Distance 125 yards.
Brain shot

Dropped where it stood with a puff of dust hitting the ground

Entrance forward base of the ear

Exit behind the off side ear

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

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7mm-08 140gr Nosler Accubond, 150 yards, buck mule deer. Entry and exit.

No one ever talks about the amazing ballistics and "whomp" of the 7mm08. We love them.

 

[Daryl S]

I've been impressed by that round since it came in, but built a .260 Rem. for my younger daughter.
7mm/08 and 7mm Mauser - never a dull moment.

 

[Novice Huntress]

My husband still has his Rem 260, would not readily part with it, he thinks it's a well underrated calibre!

 

[Daryl S]

Mine (now) has a 26" Jeff Lawrence bl. on it. 9" rate of twist. It shoots everything from 85gr. Sierra HP's to 140gr. Hornady SP's into just over 1/2" ea. weight at 100 meters. That's vel. from 3,300fps down to 2,840fps. With 160gr. Hornady RN's AND 160gr. Sierra bullets at 2,550fps, it make just under 1" groups.

 

[Tex .416]

.308 Win
Barnes TTSX 130 grain
MV 3,000 fps
Distance 130 yards
Shot placement low behind the shoulder, through the heart, ran about 30 yards
Whitetail buck

Entrance

Exit

 

[Daryl S]

Did a job on that heart. The front legs look OK.

 

[Arac]

Something a little different. A very mild load for a young boy on his first deer hunt. I felt confident in such a mild load after reading an article in African Hunter (IIRC) where smaller plains game was being taken with mild loads in a 6x45 with 100gr Speer soft points, and other similar chamberings/loads. The article noted how much less meat damage occurred due to the lower velocity and lack of bullet fragmentation. My experience on this deer confirmed to me that mild loads with no or very little fragmentation can be effective and cause less bloodshot meat. Not exactly a profound finding, but interesting to me. And something to think about when creating a load for kids.

.243 Win
85gr Nosler Partition
muzzle velocity - approximately 2600-2650 fps (not chronographed)
Remington Model Seven Youth 18.5" barrel

Shot was approximately 60 yards, can't remember exactly. Maybe a little further. Buck was slightly quartering away. He did not make it far after the shot and bullet was recovered just under the hide - you can see a bump where the bullet was resting in front of his left shoulder in the picture below.

Entry - you can see there is very little bloodshot meat:

Inside of near shoulder (entry side) and again, not too much bloodshot meat:

Exit from chest cavity:

Outside of far shoulder showing virtually zero bloodshot meat:

Entry:

Exit side:

 

[Tex .416]

.308 Win Barnes TTSX 130 - distance about 100 yards. Entrance base of the ear traveling straight through and destroying the base of the skull and upper cervical spine and then exiting. The 130 TTSX is my go to hunting bullet for the .308 Win inside of 250 yards.