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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1064130" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Emphasis mine.</p><p></p><p>There's an awful lot of truth here.</p><p></p><p>What I've seen is that the cup and core bullets, especially the SST's and NBT's with high velocity impacts tend to pretty well turn inside out losing most of their lead core very quickly and when you do get a pass through usually what it appears to be is basically an empty jacket passing through. This causes massive damage on entry but I've had a lot of big hogs and even deer run a considerable distance before finally crashing and dying even when upon examination it appears that everything in the chest cavity was just turned to mush.</p><p></p><p>I haven't had that problem with the Accubonds, Interbonds, Accubond LR's or the Swift sirocco.</p><p></p><p>I shot a buck this year at about 380yds facing me almost perfectly straight on. I was shooting the 300wm with 180gr Sirocco. My POA and POI was half way between the pint of the shoulder and brisket and it passed through the entire length of his body where I found it just beneath the skin of his left hindquarter. Half an inch more and I'd have had a good pass through. It had stayed together very well. When I weighed it I had 164gr of bullet left! The funny thing was I thought for a second I'd missed because he just stood there with that "deer in the headlights look" looking around for probably 10-15 seconds and then just collapsed absolutely stone dead.</p><p></p><p>We came to the Barnes Bullets back in the seventies when my dad got one of the first .17 Rem's. Nothing we tried early on would stay together at all and his buddy that was reloading for him was a speed freak. He pushed them so fast that often the bullets burned up and came apart in the first hundred yards of flight.</p><p></p><p>When he tried the original Barnes X they held together no matter how fast he pushed them. We pulled quite a few of them out of coyotes and what we found was that the petals would usually tear away and the rest of the bullet would remain although sometimes pretty deformed.</p><p></p><p>I've shot some GMX's as well and found similar results.</p><p></p><p>One reason I like the Interlock so well is that it is both a bonded bullet and has a cannelure, essentially an internal crimp. They expand very well down to that point mushrooming sometimes to the size of a quarter but even at 100-300yds at 7mm STW and 300 Rum velocities I haven't seen any break up even when punching straight through the shoulders.</p><p></p><p>If a guy isn't shooting beyond 600-750 yds these are ideal bullets to use on everything I've shot them with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1064130, member: 30902"] Emphasis mine. There's an awful lot of truth here. What I've seen is that the cup and core bullets, especially the SST's and NBT's with high velocity impacts tend to pretty well turn inside out losing most of their lead core very quickly and when you do get a pass through usually what it appears to be is basically an empty jacket passing through. This causes massive damage on entry but I've had a lot of big hogs and even deer run a considerable distance before finally crashing and dying even when upon examination it appears that everything in the chest cavity was just turned to mush. I haven't had that problem with the Accubonds, Interbonds, Accubond LR's or the Swift sirocco. I shot a buck this year at about 380yds facing me almost perfectly straight on. I was shooting the 300wm with 180gr Sirocco. My POA and POI was half way between the pint of the shoulder and brisket and it passed through the entire length of his body where I found it just beneath the skin of his left hindquarter. Half an inch more and I'd have had a good pass through. It had stayed together very well. When I weighed it I had 164gr of bullet left! The funny thing was I thought for a second I'd missed because he just stood there with that "deer in the headlights look" looking around for probably 10-15 seconds and then just collapsed absolutely stone dead. We came to the Barnes Bullets back in the seventies when my dad got one of the first .17 Rem's. Nothing we tried early on would stay together at all and his buddy that was reloading for him was a speed freak. He pushed them so fast that often the bullets burned up and came apart in the first hundred yards of flight. When he tried the original Barnes X they held together no matter how fast he pushed them. We pulled quite a few of them out of coyotes and what we found was that the petals would usually tear away and the rest of the bullet would remain although sometimes pretty deformed. I've shot some GMX's as well and found similar results. One reason I like the Interlock so well is that it is both a bonded bullet and has a cannelure, essentially an internal crimp. They expand very well down to that point mushrooming sometimes to the size of a quarter but even at 100-300yds at 7mm STW and 300 Rum velocities I haven't seen any break up even when punching straight through the shoulders. If a guy isn't shooting beyond 600-750 yds these are ideal bullets to use on everything I've shot them with. [/QUOTE]
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