cayugad
I always take the velocity into consideration, those bonded bullets open quickly even on deer when the velocity is high enough, I think we could all agree on that and that the unbonded bullets will fragiment if the velocity is high enough, we have to judge each individual bullet as to at what velocity these things will happened and after you take the velocity lost by longer range shots it gets even more complicated. For those of us who have switched entirerly to BH209 there is also considerable increase in velocity especally with the 250+ gr bullets.
I am inclined to believe that when you are shooting a bullet that leves the muzzle at over 1900 fps and expect to rarely if ever be shooting more than 100 yds that a bonded bullet is good the design of the 250 Gold Dot for instance will open well at 1700 and that is a bonded bullet while I would prefer to have bonded Shock Waves up around 200fps, as it is my experance that they open best at over 1900fps. Lee