Brad, its strange what happened to you guys, and you all know each other it seems, were these bullets from the same lot run? bad copper?
I had two XLC's fail to open,stopped using barnes all together till they came out with the MRX/TTSX, i know you had one o fthem not open. it does cause me some concern, but damn! the dozen or so critters i've shot, and another 20+ head of big game from buddies using barnes, i have been very impressed, more so than any bullet i've ever used.
