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It's far from bullet failure when an animal dies within 30 yards. Considering the bullet smashed through the onside shoulder and was caught under the hide on the opposite side (after exiting the meat), I wouldn't hesitate to use it again at 308 velocities. The insides were Jello....

Call it coming apart or bullet failure if you want, but the results were devastating. When going on an elk hunt again, I'll probably use stouter bullet. Not because I was unhappy with the performance with the 150NBT, but I just like to experiment. I'm betting she'd have traveled farther after the shot had I been using a TSX...

Two days later I stood beside the guy in the picture below and watched him shoot a bull at about 300 yards....with a 25-06 and 117 grain Hornady soft points.