Turkey hunting forum for turkey hunting tips

General Discussion => General Forum => Topic started by: Spring Creek Calls on July 16, 2024, 10:14:12 AM

Title: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: Spring Creek Calls on July 16, 2024, 10:14:12 AM
https://youtu.be/6poi7FToq2U?si=LA4PbhNwfqKtBYqW
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: mountainhunter1 on July 16, 2024, 11:23:36 AM
Thanks for sharing Mike. Wanted to watch it last night, but it had not premiered yet when I was on their site.

They also shot a Windy Hill Predator .410 load (has forty pellets of #2 TSS in that load) on there a bit back and had 38 of them in a good group at 40 yards. Knowing that the TSS #9's will AT LEAST match the Longbeard XR's #4's at 45 yards in penetration, one can only imagine what that .410 #2 TSS load will do to what it hits way beyond 45 yards.
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: LB75 on July 16, 2024, 01:34:18 PM
Anyone ever noticed a field tipped arrow penetrates gel farther than a broadhead lol?

The gel penetration only proves a smaller projectile penetrates farther in gel, we should already know this.

Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: King Cobra on July 16, 2024, 01:54:43 PM
Interesting... Thanks for taking the time to do the test
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: Ihuntoldschool on July 16, 2024, 09:39:19 PM
Thank you for taking the time to test this especially considering the heat.

The Longbeard 4s would have killed the bird Dead at that distance.

But I can definitely see that TSS would have killed him deader.
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: Spring Creek Calls on July 17, 2024, 06:37:06 AM
This test was done by Blue Collar Outdoors. They have tested dozens of TSS and choke combinations along with tests like this.
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: Greg Massey on July 18, 2024, 10:18:59 AM
Thanks for sharing Mike, that's some good information
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: LMO on August 03, 2024, 10:38:14 PM
Yep, great info, thx for sharing
Title: Re: Lead 4's vs TSS 9's Penetration Test
Post by: Number17 on August 18, 2024, 11:54:30 AM
Quote from: LB75 on July 16, 2024, 01:34:18 PMAnyone ever noticed a field tipped arrow penetrates gel farther than a broadhead lol?

The gel penetration only proves a smaller projectile penetrates farther in gel, we should already know this.



A smaller projectile with far less KE pentetrates better than a big projectile with more KE.....therefor you can put many more of the smaller, lighter projectiles in the shell.
Sounds like exactly the reason TSS works so well.

Do you think a #9 lead or steel would penetrate as deeply as a #4 lead?
Would #12 tss penetrate as deeply as #2 lead?
Does smaller always penetrate deeper? No, but we should already know this.