[/quote]"No, you CAN ask for better. Barnes, for example at 95-100% weight retention being the norm, and also never a separation of core etc, since there ain't one".

"Nice looking bullet mushroom, Glad you got a deer, got a picture of the buck"?


"If your textbook is old enough. Perfect performance, 1920-1980 style.

No exit wound when using a 280 on a mere deer? Sorry, not good enough. Not even sort of". [/quote]
Do you work in sales at Barnes or something? I like Barnes and a lot of other brands, but weight retention doesn't equal bullet effectiveness, there's more than one way to cleanly kill an animal with a bullet, but I'm sure you beg to differ which is fine and your right as an american to do so. grin