I would totally agree on marginal shoots that the Barnes offerings or any other premium bullet could provide addition insurance for a succesful harvest. I am not sure about the more damage statement and myself I do not want more damage, I want instant system shock to the animal to shut the animal down.

But in the case of price, the Speer Gold Dot/Deep Curl might be the bullet that would achieve close to same benefits at about half the price or if you were to go to the .40/180 grain Gold Dot/Deep Curl (for deer class animals) maybe even a 1/3 of the price. Yet with any of the Gold Dit/Deep Curls have a bonded copper/lead bullet that will stay together in most difficult situation while offering controlled expansion for deeper penetration (will not pancake in the normal hunting situation)

These Gold Dot/Deep Curls were tested and recovered from the worst conditions. They were shot with a hunting load into a wet clay soil water bar in a road and the dug back out to see thier condition. The soil medium is a much more difficult medium for a bullet to stay together in than a normal big game harvest.



YES! I believe the Barnes, Nosler, and the Lehigh would have done the same thing and survived equally as well, but I would have to think a little bit about shooting a buck a bullet into dirt....