Originally Posted by Riflecrank
As great as the Hornady DGX-Bonded 480-gr./.458-cal. appears to be,
here is a disturbing report on a 500-gr DGX fired from Hornady factory ammo,
known to be accurate and 2140 fps in a 24"-barreled .458 WinMag.
Also from Doc M of MIB who copied from another site:

"This was posted on African Hunting, actually by a fellow in India I believe that is a Game Warden or whatever they call it…………
Animal control or what have you……………. He seems to be a fairly reasonable chap from what I have read……"

UPDATE , 14th November 2020 : Hornady 500 grain DGS
( Dangerous Game Solid ) meplat nose copper clad steel
jacketed solids ( used in .458 Winchester Magnum factory
loads ) are completely unsuited for frontal brain shots on
rogue Asiatic jungle elephant bulls .
Gross deformation and bullet failure experienced at 30 yard
range , on seven ton rogue Asiatic jungle elephant bull .
Animal had to be downed with borrowed .303 British
( standard forest department issue Lee Enfield ) and 215 grain
meplat nosed nickel clad steel jacketed solids ( East Bengal
Ordinance Factories production loading ) .
Suggestions for improvement : Bonding steel jacket to alloy
core , increasing jacket thickness , enclosing bullet’s rear end
with steel jacket .
Personal note : Extremely disappointed . Genuinely was
under the impression that Hornady had improved the
construction of all their bullets . Based on above experience ,
the Hornady DGS cannot be recommended for shoulder
shots on Gaur bulls either .

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Riflecrank comments on the above:
I hope that the reportedly pictured DGS above has been subsequently improved by Hornady,
like with thicker steel meplat and jacket, maybe bonding of lead core too, like they improved the DGX to DGX-Bonded.
The color in the image above makes the bullet look like the previous attempt by Hornady,
a brass-encapsulated, round-nosed, lead-cored "FMJ Solid" they called the "Encapsulated Solid"
which was oxymoronic.
But it must be the lighting of the image.
That first DGS was a copper-washed, steel-jacketed, lead-cored, flat-nosed oxymoron of a solid.
The author from "Africa Hunting" surely described it accurately, even if his image was off-color,
as would be the verbiage from anyone thinking of using it for DG.
DGS becomes DG $#!T in their mind.

Sir Ron,

My impression is (despite the report from African Hunting) that the bullet in the pic is the former "Encapsulated Solid", not the current DGS. My take is based on the fact that I have a box of those brass solids, and the color is identical to that one in the hand, and secondly, the rifle grooves in that bullet is the same color as the jacket. If it were the current DGS, the external coloration of the jacket material (thin copper) and steel groove should be different.

And, that would not be the first time I've found African Hunting (I'm a member) to be off base, or "behind the times" in reporting.

I just don't believe that the bullet in the photo is the current DGS. And is somebody "grinding an axe"?

Added: And that appears to be an outdated report. (Fixed irt from DGX to DGS)


Bob
www.bigbores.ca

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