ORIGINAL: RDJ
Skeeter - I guess it was because when I was talking to the guy at the gun counter today he really didn't think the TSX was that good. He said as soon as you hit bone the petals will often break off.
That is untrue.... at least some of it is.... the word "often" probably shouldn't be included. I have infact recovered bullets shot through some pretty nasty stuff (double stacked 1" sheets of laminate plywood)and seen other recovered bullets (some from a .330 Dakota on large Africangame) that have sheered their petals, or a few of them. These shots are typically at very close ranges and very high velocities. Please note that the bullets were ALL recovered from DEAD animals.
What you need to take into consideration is what happens to the bone that the bullet gets broken on... its like a handgrenade... and the central core of the bullet keeps on going and dang near always leaves and exit wound. Personally I have never had one stay in a deer or a hog... always a hole on side A and on side B.