Barnes Triple Shock seating depth...

[long40shot]

I've read several places to start .050 of the lands. So i used my coal tool and set my bullet for .050 off the lands. Problem is, there is only one band left in the neck. The bullet is a 45grn tsx. Will this cause issues at all?

Matt

 

[savagedasher]

I've read several places to start .050 of the lands. So i used my coal tool and set my bullet for .050 off the lands. Problem is, there is only one band left in the neck. The bullet is a 45grn tsx. Will this cause issues at all?

Matt

I always loaded them what barns recommended . They were going to be used for hunting . Larry

 

[Berger.Fan222]

Barnes bullets are long for their weight and caliber. I've tweaked loads through the whole range of seating depths. All you need is one caliber in the neck. Some of the rifles I've loaded for had long throats. Sometimes they would not feed from the magazine, but they usually shot OK. More work to get the same level of accuracy as ballistic tips or match bullets, but usually possible if one takes the effort.

 

[stacy]

MINE WORKED OUT AT THE TOP OF THE SECOND GAS RING IN MY 223 AND THEY WILL PUT MEAT ON THE TABLE 4SURE

 

[snert]

I found that .050 off and farther from the lands worked best with every barnes TTSX I ever shot. BTW, I did some testing for them as they developed the mid-weight TSX in 224. Lead bullet/"normal bullet" rules seem not to apply.

 

[Toby Bradshaw]

Barnes TSX (and TTSX) respond to seating depth tuning, but in my experience the optimum seating depth is always well back from the lands. These (below) are 85gr TSXs in my 6BR medium game rifle. The two control groups (bottom right) were shot at the beginning and end of the seating depth test -- 95gr Berger VLDs. All 3-shot groups at 100yd off a bipod. You'll likely leave some accuracy on the table if you don't test seating depth with the Barnes bullets, although 0.050" off the lands is indeed a good place to start.



I've never had a Barnes TSX shoot as well as a really good jacketed lead bullet (see above), but the Barnes shoot well enough for a hunting rifle and terminal performance is excellent. These 180gr TSXs (below) came out of a variety of big game (kudu, gemsbok, etc.) shot with my .300WM. Many more bullets were never recovered -- pass-throughs.

 

[long40shot]

I always loaded them what barns recommended . They were going to be used for hunting . Larry

If they shoot well enough, i would use them for hunting.

 

[savagedasher]

If they shoot well enough, i would use them for hunting.

My Granddaughter is in the Barnes bullet youth archive she was 9 and shot a water buffalo one shot kill with tsx . When she was 8 she kill two hogs with 223 with tsx .
Great I have many boxes 4 sale Larry