22-250 TSX Bullet Performance on Deer

[sambo73]

Thx for replies. Looking hard into the barnes and nosler out of the 22-250


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[Outbreaker]

How much money you got?



Believe it or not, it doesn't tear up that much meat. I've taken high shoulder shots, behind the shoulder shots, frontal shots, and everything has dropped. I wish I had taken a pic of the deer I killed this past weekend with the 7mm SAUM to show you.

I've used the expanding bullets like Nosler BT, Hornady SST and those things turn a deer into jello. Shoulders included.

NBT and SST work well on lower velocities.....where the bonded.copper bullets fail.

know your gun......know your performance window.

[gatorgrizz27]

Personally I would like to see a little more damage. If the shot were a little off I would like to know it's still going to expand or release enough energy to get the job done. My buddy shot a deer last weekend with his .308 and only got a quarter sized exit hole. Deer dropped in his tracks so the bullet still did it's job. I just expected more out of a .308 sized bullet.

I've had the same quarter sized exit holes, zero blood, with regular lead soft point bullets from a .30-06 at 75 yards, right behind the shoulder. Deer jumped 10 yards into a pile of brush and was dead. Exit holes don't always tell the full story, weird stuff happens sometimes.

[jjaimes]

Not Bad. I shot 2 Does this weekend with my 223 and boy did it do damage. A lot of the meat was ruined but people sure underestimate these small calibers. One I shot at around 100 Yards on the shoulder and the other around 70. They didn't get far but would like to find a better bullet for the meat. I was shooting just 60 gr. Factory Hornady American Whitetail.

[kumathebear]

Not Bad. I shot 2 Does this weekend with my 223 and boy did it do damage. A lot of the meat was ruined but people sure underestimate these small calibers. One I shot at around 100 Yards on the shoulder and the other around 70. They didn't get far but would like to find a better bullet for the meat. I was shooting just 60 gr. Factory Hornady American Whitetail.

So True! We have harvested many a deer with the 22-250. My favorite for hogs is also the 5.56 green tip that penetrates and DRT as well. A heart/lung shot at least with our experience will do the job just fine. But, we are not taking the 200+ yard shots a lot post about. And no...these calibers do just fine without the "ear or neck shots" again...at least for us. No matter the caliber many times, it still depends on placement.

[JW]

My experience with the TSX bullets is that if you don't hit bone you'll have no expansion.

A high lung shot that misses a rib will leave the same size hole going in as going out and no blood trail. Took us four hours to find a buck shot that way a few years ago.

My experience with the bullet has been out of a .257 and a .270 Weatherby magnum.

Others may have different results, but out of about 8 deer killed with that bullet the two that didn't hit bone were pretty hard to find.

We don't shoot it anymore.

Exactly and Amen. Same issues out of a 270 Win on a few whitetail doe and several black buck. No thank you. And FMJ's work on neck shots. No offense meant but it's true on necks.


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