Any experience with Vor-Tex LRX?

[Rusty_Shackleferd]

I'm finally converting my .300 win mag model 70 to a lead-free load. It's my primary big game rifle, but I just started reloading, and I'm not tooled up to reload for .300 win mag yet. I don't regularly shoot this rifle or this round, so I'm debating if I should invest in reloading for it, especially since I'll be moving out of this state in about a year.

I'd like to try out some different weights of monolithic bullets. I've had good results with rifles shooting Barnes TSX, so I want to give the 180g TTSX a try. I also want to try out Barnes' new Vor-Tex LRX line of loads, but there is little to no info online regarding its performance as a hunting round. I do my best to get as close as possible in all of my hunts, and I've never taken a shot outside of 350 yards (I once shot a prong horn ~320yards), but I'm interested in the LRX line because it looks to be high quality and worth the $2.60/round they're asking.

Does anyone have experience shooting Barnes Vor-Tex LRX? If so, what do you think? Worth the money?

[NapalmCheese]

I have no experience with the loaded ammo, but I have loaded and shot the LRX bullets (not at any animals yet).

Barnes suggests that the LRX opens up more readily than the TTSX, allowing it to be used at longer ranges / lower velocities. The bullets tend to be long, VLD type bullets. In 7mm-08 Barnes suggested I use the 120 TTSX inside of 300 yards just to keep a flatter trajectory, and the 145 LRX farther than that.

My absolutely unscientific test of shooting the 110 TTSX and the 145 LRX (7mm) into a dirt backstop at 200 yards (load development and later recovering the bullets) showed similar expansion between the two. The difference being the 110 was going some between 3000 and 3200 fps, the 145 going somewhere between 2500 and 2650 fps from the muzzle.

[Spyder]

I just finished load workup for my 300s with 168 ttsx. If you're not set on 180 grain bullets, there working great for me at ~3200fps.

[Spyder]

...but this reminds me, I have several boxes of 175 lrx I should mess with.

[Whiterabbit]

IMO a waste.

You should definitely tool up to reload 300 win mag. eventually, you save when you nail a load.

But load dev for lead free when you are out of here in a year? just eat the cost of $2.50 a round for your last hunt and GTFO. Or skip hunting for a year. Or hunt out of state this year.

After that you are GTG with your favorite lead bullet.

[Rusty_Shackleferd]

IMO a waste.

You should definitely tool up to reload 300 win mag. eventually, you save when you nail a load.

But load dev for lead free when you are out of here in a year? just eat the cost of $2.50 a round for your last hunt and GTFO. Or skip hunting for a year. Or hunt out of state this year.

After that you are GTG with your favorite lead bullet.

I'm going to eat the cost of factory ammo for now. I've enjoyed great success with monolithic copper bullets, so i'm gradually switching over all of my hunting rifles to these rounds. I can't skip hunting for a year, i like being outside too much.