examining the wound channel (cow elk), it very clearly tumbled after hitting the onside rib and didn't make it through the second lung
Matt,
Are you certain it didn't hit something first and then hit the rib already tumbling? How'd it get bent inside the chest, how'd it get a dented base if it hit the rib first?
On my range I use a half a mile of aspen cutting for backstop and I find a hugely disproportionate number of Barnes butt first into the trees. I am pretty sure they open a little and the the partially opened end acts like a drag and they keep moving butt first and still rotating so they are more inclined to stay butt first.
