If you say so. Oh wait, no it's not - it's the truth. Full metal jacket bullets are not recommended for big game hunting for a very good reason. Either they don't expand at all, or they fall apart.
There's a very good reason bonded/partitioned soft points are recommended for big game.
The VLD is not a FMJ bullet. It's an open-tip match bullet that is designed to perform much different from bonded, mono, and other controlled-expansion bullets. To call a fragmenting VLD a bullet failure is humorous. They are designed to fragment after pencilling through a few inches. It's a totally different wounding mechanism than what you would expect from a TTSX or a Partition, but to say it doesn't work well is ignorant. It works perfectly fine when used appropriately. Shot placement and shot angles are more critical with VLD-type terminal performance, but when proper angles and placement are used, quicker kills are more typical than what you'd get with controlled-expansion performance.
