Buzz,
I suspect (and not just from guessing) that Hornady made changes like Nosler did after some (not all bullet weights and calibers) of the early Ballistic Tips came apart. Nosler solved the problems by making cores harder, and sometimes changing jacket thickness. Am pretty sure that's what Hornady did as well.
The big problem was that nobody realized how much using a plastic tip would affect expansion, so they used basically the same cores and jackets that had worked in the Nosler Solid Base softpoints and Hornady Interlocks. But a plastic tip requires a BIG "hollow-point" to insert the shank of the tip--which changed expansion considerably.
Makes sense. I suppose that they are better now, but I have zero reason to try them again. There are enough known performers out there, that I do not need to experiment again on the 20+ deer that I shoot every year. I would probably buy them, if it was some kind of super deal, though.
