I am not surprised with your results plugging the hollow point. I spoke to one of the technical guys at powerbelt a couple of years ago afterI had a PB blow through a deer without expanding using a magnum charge. He said the best performing design would be aflat nose bullet shaped like thecurrent PB but without the hollow point. He also said that when people look at a bullet to buy, in the store, they like to see the hollow point and the flat nose bullet would not sell. So you can see with Powerbelt, Sales andMarketing is #1. I don't use them anymore nor doI use magnum charges. Below is a Barnes TEZ bullet I recovered from a deer I shot this year.