Since Miles says he's never recovered a TSX of any variety, it might be iffy whether one lost any petals.
But have not only found petals from Barnes TSX and TTSX bullets around the entrance hole but the exit--some near where the shank of the bullet was recovered, but also around the rim of the exit hole itself. As an example, found a petal from a 300-grain .375 Fail Safe at the edge of a fist-sized exit hole from a BIG Cape buffalo. Have seen the same variations from other petal-type bullets, but then my wife and I been shooting "petal" bullets since the late 1980s.
We also skin and butcher ALL the big game animals we put in the freezer, and I have helped with the skinning and butchering of most of our other big game animals. The exception is Africa--where I've often been in the skinning shed, or offered a tip for any bullet or fragment recovered.
