Got My New Barnes Bullets Today
 

I Got My New Barnes Bullets Today. They came in two days from MidwayUSA regular ground UPS, that is quick. I ordered two packs of bullets, the 50 cal Barnes Expander Spit-Fire T-EZ and the 50 calBarnes Expander MZ. I will be patterning them in a T/C Triumph and my NEF Sidekick. The T/C Triumph will shoot them first asI am waiting on a new style breech plug for the NEF Side Kick.I will post pictures of the groups as I get them, should have something to post sometimethis weekend.

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I love it when the brown truck shows up.
Let me know how you like the sidekick,one of my buddies was looking into getting one

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Barnes are great bullets. Expensive, but great bullets. I shoot them in my Knight rifles.

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Knight has some good deals on their website for Barnes bullets right now. Look under Online Exclusive. I just ordered a bunch.
Art

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The brown truck stopped here today also bor with 500 sabots in it new crush rib sabots in 50/40.
I manage the grain fruits and vegtable portion of our fair here so it will be about a week and a half before I get much time to shoot, if I get lucky I might get an hour monday, really would like to see what they do . Lee

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Try some Blackhorn 209 in your Triumph, Lee has good experience with it at 110g I believe. I shot some 300g Barnes MZ with BHin my Omega and got abouta 1" group at 100 yards.
Chap

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Good luck with the Expamder MZ's. I use those for hunting. They shoot great out of both my CVA Wolf and Knight KRB. Although I switched out the sabots for Crushed Rib sabots.

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Saxman, tell your buddy to get the T/C Triumph, you can get them new for $350 in Blue these days. The Sidekick was a gift from my Dad, it shoots good but it has limitations on what you can do with it, due to the plastic primer holders. I am working on getting a custom breech plug to hold the 209 primers right now.

The T/C triumph is actually my girls gun, lknhuntress. It was getting late last night but she managed to get one shot off from 65 Yards with a 50 cal. Barnes T-EZ bullet. She smacked the bullseye, I was watching along with two of her two cousins, they were quite impressed. She asked if we wanted to try a shot and we all said "No Thanks" we could only look bad compared to her shot. It was pretty funny, thankfully it was getting dark. Take a look.

We should be getting out to try and see how they group today.

I see a lot of people referring to the crushed rib sabot, what is the benefit of it and where can I get them?

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Reduces Loading Friction Up to 50%

http://www.harvesterbullets.com/sabots.htm

Call themdirectat 800-922-6287

or try

http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com

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Midsouth has them on back order:

https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item.asp?sku=00072H15045BR

Chap

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Results for the T/C Triumph, 100 grains American Pioneer (2) Pellets, Barnes Spitfire T-EZ 250 grain bullet, 100 Yards 1.5" 3 shot group. I will check into the Harvester Black Crushed rib sabots to help make loading easier.

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How hard are they loading now? From the looks of that group I'm not sure I would change a thing.
Art

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Nice shooting. The Barnes bullets 300g Origonals shoot very well out of a Savage, with a Crushed Rib sabot (.452 CR) and a Winchester Primer---67g of 4198 Smokeless (a 45/70 powder). This is a group I shot this AM 9/1/08, 100 yard, about 1 3/4" Center to center, there are 5 shots in the group. Chap

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You guys shoot good.
I need more range time

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I didn't showmy first 5 shots, not as good, but here they are---I didn't do a post of these since it is the same as I have done over and over. I have shot 4 boxes of 50 bullets in my Savage, and a lot of them were not good, but I have improved over the year, and the lead sled you just took back is what I used with 10 lbs of weight not 50 or 100 lbs. The Sled has helped me stay steady. After shot #1, I went 4 clicks up, after shot 3 I went 3 clicks down. So there was adjusting here in this shooting.
Chap

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Well, they do load pretty hard for lknhuntress and it is her gun, so I will give the crushed rib sabots a try and compare the groupI get. Right nowI am very happy with the performance of the Barnes Spitfire T-EZ Bullets with their Sabots. The trigger pull on the Triumph is just right,I think that helps the accuracy as well. For shooting, I used a support under the forend of the gun, a card table and sat on a five gallon bucket. LKNCHOPPERS

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lknhuntress
Get a can of black horn 209 for that Triumph when you get a chance, its cleaner and about 400 or fps faster and it groups much more consistantly than APP, I used to shoot APP. Lee

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Those spitfires have the boattail base so I don't think you are suppose to use the crush rib sabots with them. The Expanders should be straight down to the base so the crush ribs would be fine with them.
Best wishes,
Art

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Barnes has just come out with a new Flat based TMZ, theboat tails don't shootwell in most Savages, but flat based bullets like the Origonal and MZ do. The bullet is called the Spit-fire T-EZ:

http://www.barnesbullets.com/products/coming-in-2008/new-spit-fire-t-ez%E2%84%A2/


Chap

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oops, I stand corrected.
Art

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Pretty easy to make that mistake since Barnes named the bullet Spit-Fire. I think these are going to be a great long range bullet. Chap

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Yeah we are shooting the Spit Fire T-EZ and it is not a boat tail. It's new from Barnes, polymer tip but no Boat tail.