This is the vary reason I don't use Barnes bullets! I have had far to many times had this happen, in hunting elk and testing their bullets in a large water stock tank.
So the remedy for me was to keep using bullets like Nosler Partitons, Swift A Frames and Trophy Bonded Bear Claw bullets. I don't get any of the "Pencil Through Shots" on big game animals. I get plenty of massive tissue damage with any of the 3 bullets I mentioned.
