so what am I missing in the picture posted? So how is that a bullet the has expanded to 1.7 times caliber and retained 99% of weight is a failure, when the other two bullets in the comparison expanded almost the exact same amount and didn't retain near the weight? Maybe I am a dumbphuck or something, but that does not even begin to make any sense to me.

As to the barnes, they are good bullets and I use them, but I also use the accubonds, interbonds, GMX, Sierra BTHP gamekings, and lots of other cup n core bullets and as long as I do my job and put the bullet in the right place, I have yet to have a dead animal bitch at me that I didn't shoot it with bullet xyz........