Alpine, do you Have actual experience with the barnes x/ttsx bullets ?
You keep talking about sometimes loosing pedals, but that’s not the case. Majority of time they retain all pedals, and have 99+ % retention weight.
I still don’t understand how you think weight retention doesn’t have anything to do with penetration.
What about the bullets momentum or inertia? Wouldn’t the heavier bullet keep driving vs one that’s lost 30-50% of it’s mass?
For example Take a 130 gr 30 cal and same bullet in 180 gr. shoot them at same velocity so they can expand to same diameter and which one will penetrate deeper?

Last edited by Dre; 10/04/21.

All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.