Originally Posted by
TLB
Yeah good! Don't know how many deer and pigs I have shot with them but it is a lot. Well into the hundreds as the .243 is my main culling rifle.
To be fair I haven't tried a great deal of projectiles in .243 to compare them to. A few different types of 100gr sp which the targex leaves for dead as far as time to death and leeway for shot placement goes.
95gr sst were very good also and the 95gr ballistic tip but for the extra price of the bt you get no extra performance over the sst or targex.
I can't remember exactly what my furthest shot with the targex has been, think it was about 630 yards. Have shot a considerable amount of deer over 500 with them.
For how many animals they have been used on the amount lost is virtually none. Done plenty of less than ideal shots as far as shot placement goes, guts and back end on running shots, not ideal but the animals tend to give up pretty quickly. Seldom even requiring a dog to find them.
I have had a couple of animals where the projectile mustn't have expanded much and they have made it a wee way but this is an exception to the rule. Normally they don't make it far at all and the projectile expands rather rapidly.