30-06, 130 TTSX info?

preacher · Jun 21, 2016

does anyone have a favorite load for the 130 TTSX in their 30-06? I'd like to hear your experience with it...load data, groups, kills, etc. I'm thinking it would be a gee-wiz deer killer. I have heard of several guys around here in Utah who use the 150TTSX in their '08s and '06s on elk!

kraky1 · Jun 21, 2016

This will get you to the latest and greatest load data from Barnes...

http://www.barnesbullets.com/load-data/

I've seen people post that varget under the130 is excellent in the 3006..... it worked excellent for the 110s and my gun. The 130 s have shot really good in my 308 and my 300 Win Mag.... they aren't fussy at all.
There's a poster on another forum who lives in Alaska with his family and they do a lot of moose hunting... his kids and wife have taken moose successfully with a 308 and the 130 TSX a number of times.
Just to put a plug in for Nosler I sectioned one of their 125 Accu bonds and found it really Stout.....

Divernhunter · Jun 21, 2016

This is what I came up with in a 30-06 Ruger Ultra-Lite (20" barrel)
130gr TTSX-IMR4064-58grs-Win mag primers and Win brass
Av 3197FPS-SD 6 --Super excellent group

130TTSX-Win748-60.5grs-primer/case same as above.
Av 3192FPS-SD 18

Please understand my shooting is not always very good and the rifle was on a front sandbag with the rear in my shoulder.
Be sure to seat the bullets deep so the top relief groove is just above the case neck. So of it can even be in the case neck. Barnes likes a lot of jump. I have a rifle with .2??" jump that puts 5 into one ragged hole.
All my brass was chamfered(important!), trimmed(first before chamfering) and flash holes deburred.
If you do not trim be sure to still chamfer the case mouth.

I have also found that--across the board of different cartridges--that the faster you push Barnes bullets the better they seem to group out of any rifle. The faster you push them the better the terminal performance on game and to me that is important.
I have some data from my Ruger American also and RL15 did not measure up to the IMR4064 or Win748. If you want to see it PM me and I will email it to you.
I did not crimp even though Barnes suggested you to. I also did not crimp this bullet in 308Win and 300win mag. I got good results and no trouble with them moving in the mag when others were fired. Crimp if you prefer.

HeathSexton · Jun 22, 2016

54.5grs H4895 seated to the middle of the top groove with a light crimp from a Lee FCD is lights out from my Titanium. Performance on whitetails has been as expected, full pass throughs, heavy and short blood trails if they move.

Guybo · Jun 22, 2016

I can't comment on the TTSX but I have used the 130gr TSX in my 30.06 with excellent results. I worked up a good load and harvested several deer with it back in 07. I never recovered a bullet as all bullets went in and out with a good (but not huge) wound channel and exit hole. I think it performed the way it was designed too.

preacher · Jun 23, 2016

Thanks fellows! This gives me plenty to start with later this summer. I too find that the Barnes do much better at high speeds on game than lower. I always used the old 180 xbt in the 300 winmag, but only used the 200AB in my SILs 300 RUM. In a 30-06, I really like how that 200 PT thumps big hogs, I'm sure it would do well on elk too...but our mule deer run on the smaller size due to hunting pressure. I'd say the biggest I've taken ran around 200pds on the hoof, which is a big one. The "biggest mule deer" I ever hunted were the Desert Muleys out near Van Horn, Texas. OMG, huge, but still not as big as the UP, MI deer I saw...they looked like "donkeys!:, ha.

Paul Barnard · Jun 30, 2016

Divernhunter":2n1p591q said:
This is what I came up with in a 30-06 Ruger Ultra-Lite (20" barrel)
130gr TTSX-IMR4064-58grs-Win mag primers and Win brass
Av 3197FPS-SD 6 --Super excellent group

130TTSX-Win748-60.5grs-primer/case same as above.
Av 3192FPS-SD 18

Please understand my shooting is not always very good and the rifle was on a front sandbag with the rear in my shoulder.
Be sure to seat the bullets deep so the top relief groove is just above the case neck. So of it can even be in the case neck. Barnes likes a lot of jump. I have a rifle with .2??" jump that puts 5 into one ragged hole.
All my brass was chamfered(important!), trimmed(first before chamfering) and flash holes deburred.
If you do not trim be sure to still chamfer the case mouth.

I have also found that--across the board of different cartridges--that the faster you push Barnes bullets the better they seem to group out of any rifle. The faster you push them the better the terminal performance on game and to me that is important.
I have some data from my Ruger American also and RL15 did not measure up to the IMR4064 or Win748. If you want to see it PM me and I will email it to you.
I did not crimp even though Barnes suggested you to. I also did not crimp this bullet in 308Win and 300win mag. I got good results and no trouble with them moving in the mag when others were fired. Crimp if you prefer.