What you need sabotloader is ballistic gel to test these bullets in. That is where you get some excellent information as to penetration, expansion, wound channel, etc.

The problem with a company coming out with a new bullet is people are set in their ways. I know I sure am. Say to me that a round ball does not kill deer and you get my dander up. To those that believe that I think they are taking shots the roundball was not intended to make. Which brings us to the point of new bullet design. If something works or worked for them, they are hard pressed to say... well I will hunt with this instead.

I wish I was in Falcon's situation. He can hunt hogs all year long, and the meat does not go to waste, but he could also be the worlds greatest bullet tester. He could test bullets to see about accuracy, wound channels, knock down power, etc. And at the same time have fun hunting hogs. And getting rid of the critters from what I read. That is one reason when he makes a post, I am always hounding him about how the bullet did on the hog. Because I have heard, hogs are tough to kill. So that means the bullet has to work.

I was once told that the government used to test bullets on sheep. Whether this is true or not, I will not say. But again, live fire tests beat all the speculation by leaps and bounds.

I had terrible experiences with Speer bullets when I first shot them. I was shooting a Speer.44 caliber GDHP 270 grain (I still have some). And they were real accurate out to about 75 yards. After that I could not make them group for some reason. That's why when Semisane was telling me about the 300 grain Deep Curl I had such a hard time talking myself into trying them. I have excellent luck with a .44 caliber .430 300 grain Hornady XTP. They are accurate, and seem to hold together well. Also a lot of people hunt with them. So are the Speer better then the Hornady?

Accuracy wise they are equal so far. I have not done media tests with the Speer so I better not say one holds up better then the other. And to this day, I have not shot an critter with a sabot. I always seem to be holding a roundball or conical shooting rifle when I hunt. As Saboloader said... old habits are hard to break.