At what point in the deer's death did the bullet fail?
Read my signature line.
I never said it failed. But that performance sucked.
That is very poor performance from a bullet, as far as trauma, time to kill.
To me, the bullet "acted" like a FMJ.
A fairly long shot in a lot of wind on one animal is not significant and it would be unwise to draw any conclusions as to the effectiveness of the shooter, the rifle, the caliber, the bullet, or the game animal.
I'm not trying to start anything just pointing out that even a number of stories on the internet doesn't prove anything. As a disclaimer, I've been using Barnes almost exclusively since the X bullets came out about 25 years ago and have never experienced anything that I would call bullet failure. Before that I used Sierras and Speers and can't say I had any failures with those either although I had some misplaced shots in those days which resulted in some rodeos.
