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Yes.

What killed the animals in both instances was that the bullet penetrated to the vitals and expanded to tear up vital tissue,so in that sense both did their job.

But I came to regard such bullet performance as undesirable because it was inconsistent depending on what it hit,and how fast it was going. At those velocities it may have work fine but at higher velocity or closer impact the jacket might shed the core in heavy resistance and fail to make it into the vitals.

Also IME animals hit so that vital tissues are destroyed and heavy bones are broken just tend to make fewer tracks.

I like core and jackets to hang together, or the bullet to have some mechanism for locking some portion of them together, for any game from large deer on up.The bigger the game, the more important this becomes IMHO.


This is more satisfactory to my way of thinking. 270-130 NPT. Game was a very large bull elk.