TSX vs Accubond

I like the accubaonds over the TTSX. In my opinion they generally fly better at longer ranges, and published BC numbers see to be alot closer making BDC and windage adjustments easier to compute. I also think that they perform better on game over a larger spectrum of velocities. The Barnes do group well at close range and shoot the best 100yd groups in many of my rifles. For some reason, that accuracy often doesn't hold at longer ranges. Either bullet is great for normal use at any north American game.-----------SS

I've had some limited experience with the TSX and TTSX. Both of my rifles shoot them very well, but I haven't had the chance to see what type of groups I get past 200 yards. For now, I'll probably stick to what's working best for me, but I'd like to try the accubonds out sometime as well though.

I'm personally a Nosler guy (accubonds and partitions), but I don't think you can go wrong with either load.

I am not trying to steel this threads thunder, but I would like to try Accubonds in my 243 win. and compare them with their Partitions, but I do not think the Accubonds are being made in 24 caliber. Accubonds should be better for longer ranges. The Partitions do nopt have the higher B.CV. for long range us,
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I have to give a thumbs up so far for the Barnes TTSX. It was very effective on my sheep at 150 yards. I think it did less damage than my arrow does bow hunting. I hit him low in the shoulder (arm) and passed through with a quarter size hole on the exit. Hit both lungs, ram went strait down.

Now I will have to see what they do out at longer ranges. This was my first experience with the Barnes. I too have always shot Nosler.

Oh ya, 270wsm with 130gr. 3176 fps.

I'm still on the Nosler bandwagon, but I killed my buck in Utah with a TTSX out of my new Vanguard that the wife got me for Christmas last year and I gotta admit........I don't hate em. I shot from the onside front shoulder quartering toward me out the offside ham doing little damage suprisingly. One thing with the Barnes, you can draw a line through the animal where you hit and that's where it will go. There is value in that.--------SS

I have used both with great success. My favorite between the two is the TTSX due to the on game performance that I have experienced. I just love that X exit wound on the opposite rib cage. Kind of reminds me of a small broadhead wound. It is my opinion that the TTSX when used in smaller and marginal cartridges gives them greater killing ability than the caliber would normally exibit. My favorite rifle shoots both sub moa all day long, so I would be happy with either one.

Is there much advantage to the TTSX over the TSX?

"oldcp" wrote:Is there much advantage to the TTSX over the TSX?

Initial expansion begins quicker due to the tip being pushed back into the hollow cavity. It also has flatter trajectory due to the sleeker profile that the pointed plastic tip gives it. I prefer the TTSX because of those two qualities. The TSX doesn't expand quick enough for me on antelope and deer, but is great on the bigger stuff. The TTSX on the other hand, handles all applications for me very nicely. It's my one bullet to do it all from antelope to elk.

The TTSX just looks cool too :thumb

I have never shot Nosler but I have shot the barnes I've killed two cow elk one with a .270 and the other with a .308. Both elks dropped with one shot. Completely destroyed the lungs on both of them was like a jelly when I opened them up.

TTSX fan here too.

I shot my 2012 mulie buck at 488 yds. quartering with a .25-06 AI and a 100gr. TTSX @ 3598fps. The bullet entered the right shoulder, passed through taking out both lungs and exited the left hip. Buck did not take a single step.

Calculations show the bullet should have still been somewhere around 2300fps, and retained 1150ft/lbs. of kinetic energy at that range. My rifle also holds about a 5" group at 600 yds, but shoots sub-1/2 MOA at 100 yds. I can ring an 8" steel plate at 830 yds. 90% of the time too, depending on winds, sometimes 10 for 10. I would consider that accurate enough for a hunting bullet.

I am certainly no ballistics expert but a friend helped me work up a load of the TTSX for my 300 winchester in 168 grain before last season (2012). I had an elk and deer tag for colorado. Put a rush shot on a mulie the first day of season and hit it a little far back but it worked him over pretty good. Was quartering to me and passed through the endire body and exited the hind quarter. He made it another 20 yards and I finished him with a second shot to be safe; he was looking wobbly though. Never got a chance to take an elk with the bullet but it seems to me that they may be zipping through the deer a little too fast. Shot a yearling doe last day of season here in WV with the same load and the thing ran 40 yards. Same story with a couple other deer I have also shot with this load. Of course the deer are dying but I like to see maximum concusion and the deer stiffen up in its tracks. Maybe a tail flicker at best before he expires.

Anyway with that being said I used 150 gr nosler partitions in my 7mm mag for years and cant recall more than a deer or two that even took more than one step and those were likely because of poor shot placement which is bound to happen over a decade of hunting. Since the Accubond is similar in design to the partition I plan to work up a load this year for my 300 win mag in 180 gr. accubonds and see what they do.

So did the TTSX shoot good? Absolutely! Sub MOA all day. 1" 3 shot group at 200yds. But I have been hearing and reading great things about the Accubonds and have decided to give them a try. Next elk season I will have them strapped in my magazine provided they give me the grouping and numbers I am looking for. Plus I have had people tell me and have also read on other threads that the Accubonds will shoot identically to the nosler balistic tips. If the partitions had as good of a BC and they grouped better I would be uning them; in fact I may try to work up a load with them in 180gr. You cannot beat the shock power and energy that comes for a nosler partition.

CB