Barnes X-bullet
08-18-2004, 08:44 AM
#21
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: meridian idaho USA
Posts: 429
RE: Barnes X-bullet
Try the triple shocks, they are your best chance to get accuracy with the x bullet. They are very accurate.
Very good deer bullet for your use. Use the 120 or 130. Whichever shoots better in your rifle.
Very good deer bullet for your use. Use the 120 or 130. Whichever shoots better in your rifle.
08-22-2004, 09:20 PM
#23
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Posts: 815
RE: Barnes X-bullet
One side note though, they are not the MOST accurate out there in SOME rifles(mine all like X's fine), but they are good enough for hunting purposes.They are hands down the best in terminal performance out there. My experience has been that a max load usually isn't the most accurate, I usually get best results 1/2 - 1 1/2grains below max.
08-22-2004, 10:43 PM
#24
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Berkeley Springs WV
Posts: 101
RE: Barnes X-bullet
ORIGINAL: Buckshot
Ive only shot one deer with this load and it went a total of 75 yards, the first 60 without a drop of blood, after that the blood was spotty at best. I found the deer bedded down looking at me, so I shot it in the neck. Now Im not saying that barnes bullets wont kill deer, however I am saying that the 7mm 140gr XLC isnt disigned to expand on whitetail deer. HAd the conditions been different (no snow) I may have had a very tough time finding this deer.
Ive only shot one deer with this load and it went a total of 75 yards, the first 60 without a drop of blood, after that the blood was spotty at best. I found the deer bedded down looking at me, so I shot it in the neck. Now Im not saying that barnes bullets wont kill deer, however I am saying that the 7mm 140gr XLC isnt disigned to expand on whitetail deer. HAd the conditions been different (no snow) I may have had a very tough time finding this deer.
I shoot the 160 gr XLC out of my 7mm REM Mag and I have never had any of the 33 deer shot with that combo even take a step... they have all been bang...FLOP!I did recover one of the bullets after it had passed through a fine 9 piont and gone 8 inches into an old hickory tree. I cut down the tree the following spring ( it was dying anyway) to find It has lost its petals after going about 3 inches into the tree but the remaining "core" continued to drive another 5 inches. going back through my reloading records I see that I have harvested a total of 61 deer with the X in .223, .243, .270, 7mm REM Mag, and .308. Never once have I had on fail to expand. All had very impressive wound channels.
