30 06 Barnes Ttsx
Velocity is in the 2750 fps range.
30 06 barnes ttsx. Hope that helps a little. Barnes vor tx ammunition 30 06 springfield 168 grain ttsx polymer tipped spitzer boat tail lead free box of 20 product family. My most accurate load in my 30 06 is 55 0 grains of imr 4350 pushing a barnes 168 ttsx.
The 06 refers to the year the cartridge was adopted 1906. 35 99 1 80. The 308 and 30 378 get the ttsx because even though 308 speeds don t require a boat tail they like them and the 30 378 because of speed needs a boat tail.
The 30 refers to the caliber of the bullet. I have several boxes of factory 168 vor tx cartridges. Like the 050 off the lands.
Our boxed bullets were designed for the 300 win mag and are not the same as our factory loaded 30 06 150 ttsx. At 100 yards 180gr ttsx factory loaded in a federal premium cartridge made a pretty nice pattern. I m getting ready to work up a load with the 168 ttsx in 30 06.
An email to barnes finally got a response. Our price 35 99 1 80 per round our price. I can t speak to the specific load and 30 06 rifle but i can attest to the barnes bullets you have chosen.
Federal premium ammunition 30 06 springfield 165 grain barnes tsx box of 20. I get 1 2 inch groups out of my t c venture. 180gr ttsx 1 500 fps i use quite a few barnes ttsx bullets for hunting 6 5mm 277 cal 7mm 308 cal 375 cal and the 165gr in your 30 06 sprg would be very effective out to 400 yards and even 500 yards and that s at sea level assuming you can keep the mv around 2 800 fps which isn t too hard.
Offering double diameter expansion maximum weight retention and excellent accuracy the tsx tipped tsx and tsx fn provide maximum tissue and bone destruction pass through penetration and devastating energy transfer. Develop a baseline with that and try adjusting it a bit closer or farther as needed to tune up the groups if. My rifle shoots the factory loads ver.
I use them in 308 s 35 wheelen and 30 378 wby mag. I m sure someone with any amount of marksmanship talent could tighten that group up easily. I know that the bullets like to jump.
The boxed bullets have an extra groove and a different ogive. They are fantastic in my opinion. Army s primary rifle and machine gun cartridge for nearly 50 years before being replaced by the 7 62x51mm nato commercial 308 winchester.
For coal follow barnes suggestion and start with 0 050 off the lands. They average a coal of 3 275. In the wheelen i use the flat base tsx and due to speed does not need the boat tail of the ttsx.
Barnes the leader in bullet innovation offers hunters the ultimate in accuracy terminal performance and handloaded precision in a factory loaded round. I haven t used any tsx or ttsx in the 30 06 but i have a couple rifles that shoot barnes bullets very well and one that doesn t like the new tsx design too. The 30 06 remained the u s.
The book coal max is 3 218. 30 06 springfield 180 grain barnes ttsx the 30 06 springfield was introduced to in 1906.
