300 blackout is too weak for deer (graphic)

[Peddler 76]

There goes the neck roast, absolutely one of my favorite meals!

 

[memtb]

There goes the neck roast, absolutely one of my favorite meals!

Nothing worse than having to throw away a lot of good game meat! When I was a kid….losing meat to a shot anywhere but "through the slats" was heavily frowned upon! It's still deeply ingrained in me….though I have lost a large portion of elk ham once. The choice was either losing the ham or the entire elk! memtb

 

[reubenski]

All that meat damage is why I moved to mostly solid copper bullets for hunting. The Barnes TAC TX line are fantastic in BO.

 

[FireFlyFishing]

Yikes! Devastating indeed. However, meat loss is significant with TNT loads. I like my neck meat for burger and sausage projects.

I too am looking to use my 300 BLK this year for a whitetail woods gun. I had success with the Barnes 110 Tac TX loaded over 20.0 grn. of H110. They're humming along in the 2300 fps. range. Shooting a 16" AR platform. Generally when I hunt whitetail, I'm in thicker timber and the shots aren't anymore than 100 yards. So, this setup has great potential! It's like a modern 30-30!

 

[Bob the nailer]

135grn varminters work well too.

 

[ART W]

Try the the Sierra 125 grain Pro Hunter. It will work fine and is not as explosive as the TNT. The Nosler 125 grain Ballistic Tip or Accubond should work too. I have used the the Sierra 125 gr Pro Hunter in a 308 and had very good luck with it on deer.

 

[ARlife4me]

I tried these and my rifle really likes them. This load blows primers in my AR but shoots great in the Remmy. The 110 Barnes are pretty slick as well

AR's tend to OP on factory ammo as they're designed for BA's and tested in such.

 

[Beamonk]

I have found the Barnes 110's to be alot more accurate than the 120's for some reason. The 110's have dropped quite a few hogs for me

 

[SixDemonBag]

I run Barnes 110 Tac-TX over 20.2 grains H110 out of an 8.5" AR with a can and its pretty devastating on critters. Nice to be able to hunt with your defensive load. Nice work!

 

[Mike D Texas]

The Barnes TAC-TX is the perfect bullet for the blackout. I've killed a truckload of large pigs and whitetail with my 8"SBR with the Barnes 110 TAC-TX running 2315fps over a stiff load of Alliant 300MP. I do limit my range to 150'ish yards and most of them when shot high shoulder are bang flops.

I have a couple of boxes of the 120 grain Barnes but the 110s work so well I've not been motivated to change.

 

[JiggyIi]

Nothing worse than having to throw away a lot of good game meat! When I was a kid….losing meat to a shot anywhere but "through the slats" was heavily frowned upon! It's still deeply ingrained in me….though I have lost a large portion of elk ham once. The choice was either losing the ham or the entire elk! memtb

Was that with your Mink Rifle?

 

[Snyderite]

Meat waste? There's only about a pound of meat on a whitetail does neck. Maybe two. Vs a shoulder. It's not a buck or a bull.

 

[FatOldMIHunter]

All that meat damage is why I moved to mostly solid copper bullets for hunting. The Barnes TAC TX line are fantastic in BO.

One of the great things about solid copper is that even if you get lots of meat damage, you can safely feed that stuff to dogs. They love all that bloodshot meat. Just pic the bone fragments out.

 

[rustyshackleford]

Anyone ever try those new 115's from Sierra? I haven't seen any testing on them but I'm sure they'd be good. If the 125 TMK's would stay in stock I'd probably give those a whirl