Rost--
I believe you did misread the info. Go back and read it again, this time noting that I did NOT say that the Partition will out-penetrate the X. I merely listed the samples of the longest penetration I've seen, which is the assigned task here.
I have shot a lot of animals with the Barnes X (plain, blue and Triple) and am enormously impressed with its penetrative powers. One in particular was an elk where a "puny" little 140-grain bullet broke both shoulders and exited the other side, something I've never seen with a Partition lighter than 200 grains. But total elk penetrated only measured about 16", so it could not be included here.
I just haven't happened to shoot anything with an X at such an angle that over 4 feet of penetration occurred. Some penetrated 3 feet, surely, but then they disappeared into the atmosphere. The list I provided is the samples I've seen of the deepest penetration, not how many X's I've shot entirely through animals, which is considerable.
MD
