Tom,
I double-shouldered (and spined) a Texas whitetail with a .243 in December. It was a doe, though, so maybe that doesn't count--and the bullet was a factory "blue box" Federal 100-grain, so maybe that doesn't count either.
The bullet also exited. Does that count?
No, unless it was a .243 'Magnum' of some sort.
Your 'sample of one' was obviously a fluke.
I heard John whispering to the bullet, "You're a magnum," before he shot, so I think that counts.
Actually, everyone on that hunt was shooting a .308 or .243, and everyone killed four deer. So there's your sample. ;-)
John has one my poor little "blue box" bullets that struck the off shoulder of a buck, took a left turn, and ended up in two pieces -- jacket and core -- barely poking up through the skin forward of the shoulder.
The buck was DRT, but this was clearly another case of bullet failure... in the eyes of mono-projectile homeboys.
*rolling eyes*
