Excellent information here. More than a lifetime of experience in one thread. Amazing. Thanks to everyone involved.

PS. As someone that was hunting with a 300 mag and 30/06 many years ago I remember two bullet jacket thicknesses being available from Barnes. The .032 jacket for standard .30 caliber cartridges and the .049 jacket for magnums. It is not really fair to expect the .032 jacket bullet to perform at magnum velocities. It was never designed to do that. It would do much better if impact velocity were reduced 300-400 fps.

Last edited by swampshooter; 12/16/14. Reason: additional information

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