Chap,

If you review your email and pm's, I think you will find where I explained the hollowpoint index in the spreadsheet. I am pretty sure I discussed velocities and pass through performance with 295 PB's

If you review our pm discussions you will also find my thoughts about wounding and penetration. Particularly that both are important aspects of terminal performance and that to get more of one, one must sacrifice the other. For example, if one desires a littlemore penetration he givesa little inwound size. If he wants a little larger wound, he gives up a little in penetration. The key is balance. One wants sufficient penetration to wound deeply in the game, but he also doesn't want to waste alot of retained energy in an exiting bullet.

As far the sniperparidise article, I see how very little his hard cast bullet expanded and i don't get very excited. I have shot hard cast bullets in the form maxisself casted with dental xray lead. They get great penetration passing right through, but the wound is small relative to a 385 GP just blasts them. I saw the 610 white bullet in the artical. Awesome wound pattern in the clay but the author diminuates it as less than desirable penetration. That bullet would go right through a bison's vitals, IMO, better thanthe nosler.

It's a matter of personal preference. I prefer a bullet that expands and creates a larger wound channel. So when I see the mushroomed 405 black belt, I'm thinking, "Oh yeah !!! Awesome!!! Big wound channel, lower exit energy", and when I see his poorly expanded hard cast bullet I am thinking, "Small wound channel, high exit energy".

I told you this before. Take a all lead projectile, (PB, GP conical, BS conical, or a patched round ball), for a given energy, at a velocity ideal for the projectile, and it will OUTPERFORM a jacketed bullet of equivalent impact energy. I am totally convinced of this.

Likewise, take an all lead projectile and cause it to impact at velocities greater than ideal for its design, and one could be dissipointed in the performance.

Frankly, I firmly believe anything I can stuff down my muzzleloaders can cleanly take game. I just need to know I can put it where it can damage its lungs and/or heart and I will get the results I am hoping for. A downed deer and full freezer .