Thread: Accuracy of Barnes Projectiles....

An observation....

I have used a lot of barnes pills over the years and my experience has been consistently that they tend to not be as accurate as Nosler BT/Hornady Amax/SST....

I have used
224 - in 53 gr
6mm - 85gr TSX
6.5mm 100 & 120 TTSX & TSX
7mm 120TSX.

Would typically be converting from a BT/Amax load and would almost invariably find an increase in group size, and only with some concentrated effort be able to shrink that group back, almost never getting as small as the other projectile loads..

No complaints with terminal performance but I would say that I would sacrifice around 0.3 + MOA with most Barnes loads over the others.. even after a lot of effort in load development.

I am reasonably fussy with my accuracy requirements so I believe that I have at least attempted to do justice to the exercise... typically I have selected lighter projectiles in the barnes to negate the barrel twist issue..

I find this a little surprising, as I believed that CNC produced mono metal pills should be quite consistent at least in theory. Mind you I do note that no bench rest people are using such yet.... might be a reason for that?

Is this consistent with others experience...?