I will have to play with the Barnes. Early on it seemed that a rifle either loved them or hated them. Haven't been around the triple shock. Been on the big gun kick for a while. My main hunting weapon is the .340 Weatherby. I am strictly a horn hunter and don't meat hunt, don't need to. I took a Kudu in Namibia at 356 yards with the .340. That is the difference between hunting with something like that and a 3006. Nothing against 3006, great gun, but when you get to 350 and 400 yards you don't have to do a lot of figuring drop charts. The .340 drops 14 inches for me at 350 yards. Both shots were 6 inches apart and the first one I forgot to allow for a cross wind. Kudu bull didn't go 15 feet from the first shot. I had to explain to the PH that I wasn't from Europe and in the west a 350 yard shot with the right brace should be a chip shot.