Always interesting to hear what a bullet from a quickly dead animal should look like.
I’m no gun writer like you but a lot of people have this vision of partition bullets perfect mushroom.. I’m just showing a picture of a partition that isn’t all pretty.. also used a 200gr hot-cor out of a 325 wsm on a caribou 400yds. Only thing I recovered was pieces of lead never found the jacket. Caribou took 3 steps dead, but majority of you would consider that bullet failure because a perfect mushroomed billet was not recovered. I’m in the camp dead animal equals great bullet performance..
The partition bullet is designed to blow the from half of the bullet off, with the back half remaining intact. As Insaid they worked perfectly. I've only recovered one partition and it look just like the one you posted with the lead gone.
