What I saw when my brother-in-law shot a deer with the first ballistic tips convinced me and every one who saw the results that they were no good for deer, that is they had fast expansion and wasted a lot of meat. The bullets needed ‘toughening up’ - we all felt this way. No one in our hunting group used ballistic tips for a very long time after that.
Now, if my brother-in-law had shot that deer in the ribs we probably would not have ‘whined’ regarding their performance.
I’m glad they’ve improved the bullet. I’ll try them someday.
Our experience may have been unique, I don’t think so.
Same thing happened to me 1st animal shot with a 130 gr .277 bt, but thru the rib cage massive expansion on the surface.after that I didn't use them for 20 years. It took JB's credibilty to get me to try them again. Damn those nosler turds to put out a bullet with zero meaningful field testing just as bad as every version of sorry X bullets that copper fouled and hornady's track record on engineering/ cost cutting improvements that screwed up a good bullet. It's just no damn wonder we get set in our ways period...mb
