ORIGINAL: mossy33oak
ORIGINAL: BrutalAttack
I don't anyone can seriously say that they can't kill deer but they consistently don't perform as well under most conditions as other "big game" bullets like the partition etc.
well, after I shot a deer 2 years ago with a Partiton and had pencil holes on the entrance and exit and then last year shot a deer with an accubond and had pencil sized holes at both ends Id say the ballistic tip in my 7mm did perform as well as the others. I will never load another bullet besides a BT in my 7mm unless I am going for Elk.
That's probably because the partition and the accubond are probably designed for larger game and not just "thin skinned" game like deer. On larger game you want controlled expansion and penetration based on the theory that the vitals on a larger animal like elk are buried deeper and harder for the bullet to reach. Which is the concept most big game bullets are based on.
I'm sure there are time when the hydrostatic pressure of tissue on a partition or an Barnes x bullet isn't enough to make it fully expand properly before exiting a thin skinned animal. There are so many variables involved that it's almost impossible to predict but what we do know is that so called "rapid" or "radical expansion" designs such as the BT can really come back to bite us in the ass.