If they weren't accurate for you, then you have no stake in the game. I have a stake...I like my hunting load and don't want to change. But I am with you...if the possibility exists for the bullet to break apart like that, then I want no part of it. This makes me want to find a suitable substance to shoot them into.

Seeing that pic of the broken up PT Gold has me wondering. I killed two deer but took shots at three deer. The last one I never recovered and hoped really hard that I missed. I was sitting on the ground against a tree when a buck silently appeared to my right side approx 15 yards away. Being right handed, I had NO shot at the deer. He noticed me and stared carefully in my direction, but decided to proceed. As soon as his head was behind a tree (a VERY brief moment), I flipped the gun to shoot left handed. At that point he was only 10 yards away. I mean 10 friggin' yards. The crosshairs were on his heart, and I pulled the trigger. Since I never practice shooting lefty, I suppose I could have jerked the trigger. But I "saw the shot." The last thing I saw before the gun recoiled was the buck's heart.

He spun around and darted back the way he came, white flag flying high. No blood. No hair. No buck. Grid searched that evening, nothing. Grid searched for a couple more hours the next morning and nothing. I want to believe that I missed, but I have never been able to convince myself fully of this, because I "saw the shot," as we always should. That broken up PT Gold has me revisiting this memory. Man, that was gut-wrenching and heart-breaking at the time. Couldn't get it out of my head...lots of sleepless nights wondering if my bullet didn't perform well enough and if there was a suffering and now dead deer somewhere out there because of it.