Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Experiences with 95 & 110 gr. TTSX in .270 Win.

I've been shooting 260 Rem. & the Barnes 120gr X & now the 120gr TSX. We take elk every season with complete pass thru. Heavy bone or muscle does not stop them. They tend to retain 100% of their weight which means penetration. A hunting buddy & his son use 270"s & the 130gr TSX. Same thing complete pass thru on elk. Never seen the 110's used on elk but I have seen them pass thru the heaviest muley bucks like a hot knife thru butter. A big plus is that they don't shatter & splinter like C&C bullets. If you inadvertently strike a meaty spot like a shoulder you won't blow it up like a C&C bullet. Used the Nosler partition for years but these mono's far out penetrate the Nosler. When it comes to heavy game like elk the mono's are the only bullet I want. Many years back before the 260 Rem came out I built my wife a 6.5x08 ( 260 Rem now ) wild cat. First elk she shot was at a lasered 197yds. Shooting the then Barnes 120gr "X" the bull dropped at the shot with complete penetration thru both front shoulders. These bullets are amazing.. When loading always start at .050 off the lands as Barnes recommends. Some where between .030 & .070 off the lands you will find your rifles accuracy sweet spot.

Say, Gunner that load shows 70,000+psi in Quickload.

Knew it was a hot load, but, as said, no load data available at the time, caseheads miked okay and primer pockets remained snug, is the 270 a sammi speced 65K cartridge, or is that the '06 or 308 Winchester?

you can get about 3470fp at about 60K with RL26 according to Qiuckload. I was using RL16 and RL17 with same bullet at 3400fps.

10-4, I finally broke the rifle down for a custom build, my other 270's are pre-64's, a FWT and a Standard rifle, I shoot 150 and 160 gr Partitions in them with RL-22, 150's run an easy 2925, the 160's go 2800 in the 22" barreled Feather Weight.

The 110's are pretty impressive on deer. Accurate and light recoiling.

I,m going to load more Barnes TTSX 110gr in my 270. Might have a chance to shoot some coyotes in Canada next fall, maybe even a wolf.
That seems to be a smoking bullet. My old arms like the recoil. about like shooting my 257 Roberts.

I'll have to work up a few . Appreciate the response.

Joe, I loaded that same load, 56.5gr of RL16 and RL17 110gr Barnes TTSX CCI 200 primer. Got 3401 with one and 3400 with the other.

I have used the 110 TSX out of one 270. This was probably 10 plus years ago. The load was running 3250fps, and do not have load details at hand. Used on many deer, a couple antelope, blackbuck, Axis, and hogs. No elk.

They simply worked. I did recover two, that retained 100% weight and perfect expansion. Both were second shots from the south end of north bound deer, both were found in the neck area after two plus feet of penetration.

I am going to work up a load for my son's 270 this year with 110gr TTSX,

As far off as quick load can be in predicting speeds I'm not sure I'd trust the pressures to be that reliable either. But I could be wrong.

Loaded a few boxes of 95s in 270 win for friends dad. Really worked well on smaller hill country deer. Quick death, short runs generally. Even with less than ideal hits. Not so bad on meat damage like CC bullets can do.

Never recovered a bullet.

I've known a number of shooters who found that Quick load can be way off as to "maximum pressures." when one considers the wide variety of barrels, components and weather in which we shoot, it's not wonder. E

Wife of a friend of mine uses that combo on elk, and I don't think he's even loading it to max for her. He said she's killed 4 cows with it so far.

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Loaded several and tried them yesterday. First shot was 4” high (was shooting 150 Hornady’s) Adjusted scope and got a .75” group a half inch high at 100 yards. Not bad. Now comes the problem, I decided to try some 130 gr ttsx factory ammo while there and the group dropped .75” with all 3 touching. Kind of hard to justify reloading unless it’s just to pass time.
I’m guessing the 130’s will do about anything I want to do.