I have used the following bullets on big game:
Barnes—
Tipped Triple Shock
Triple Shock
Long-Range X (LRX)
X-Bullet
XLC
Berger Hunting VLD
Fail Safe—
Both Winchester & Combined Technology
Federal—
Blue Box
Deep Shok
Red Box
Trophy Bonded Tip
Hornady—
ELD-X
GMX
InterBond
Spire Point, both Interlock & pre-Interlock
SST
Norma Oryx
North Fork Soft Point
Nosler—
AccuBond
AccuBond Long Range
Ballistic Tip
E-Tip
Partition (both lathe-turned and extruded)
Partition Gold
Solid Base
Remington—
Core-Lokt (original and post-1990)
Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded
Sierra—
GameKing
Speer—
Hot-Cor
Grand Slam (original and improved)
Swift—
A-Frame
Scirocco
Scirocco II
Trophy Bonded Bear Claw—both the original and Federal versions
Winchester—
Power Point
Silvertip
XP3
They have all worked fine, as long as the bullets were used within their design parameters.
That narrows it down!