Sir Spruce, Buy a donkey. Sir Bob confirms. I now vaguely remember the Hornady "encapsulated" bronze-jacketed RN FMJ with a copper or gilding metal cap on the bottom of the bullet. I never bought any of those. My oldest Hornady RN FMJ are steel jacketed with exposed lead on the base. I skipped right over the "encapsulated" and took up again with the DGS with flat nose and steel jacketed 500-gr and 480-gr "solids." Hornady, bless their hearts, have finally come up with good bullets for the .458 WinMag, .458 Lott, and .450 NE with the DGS and DGX combos. The nose projections are short enough to work in the Lott with the 500-grainers, though handicapping the .458 WinMag unless seated less deeply than on the factory cannelure. The 480-grainer is bore diameter and less ahead of the cannelure, so as to work in the no-throat .450 NE. That too needs to be seated less deeply in the .458 WinMag for optimum ballistics. But it works well in the no-throat .45-70 Gov't.
So now I assume that the the TC Bone Crusher 400-gr/.458-cal FMJ solid was made by Hornady.
I missed out on those longer, cannelured, 600-gr Barnes Originals too. Good to know of such things. Buy a donkey to Sir Bob.
Ron aka "Rip" for Riflecrank Internationale Permanente NRA Life Benefactor and Beneficiary .458 Winchester Magnum, Magnanimous in Victory THE WALKING DEAD does so remind me of Democrap voters. Donkeypox.
