In this blog, I’m going to highlight our experiences shooting various muzzleloader bullets.  We’ve harvested many whitetails using muzzleloaders but had less the ideal results before switching to the Barnes Spitfire TMZ. This is how we got there.  By winter of 2017 we at The Hunting Public had harvested multiple bucks with a Thompson Center Impact muzzleloader using various …

Back in 2023 I got one of the best birthday surprises of my life. WTA called, letting me know they had a cancellation hunt pop up. It was a September moose hunt in British Columbia. My 34th year on this earth would be starting off with a bang and a childhood dream was suddenly very real. I grabbed my Christensen Arms .300 Win Mag, a caliber I’ve relied on for years, and started looking for …

“Which Barnes bullet should I shoot?” or “What makes an LRX different from a TTSX?” or ”I’ve hunted with TSX bullets in the past but never tried a TTSX or LRX.” These are some questions and statements that we hear and get asked here at Barnes.   In this post, I will explain why each bullet exists, what makes each of them unique, some of their pe …