Yeah I was talking to my son about that. He has learned a lot from me through the years and I have talked to him a lot about ballistics but weight retention is something we have not talked a great deal about because we have never really recovered a bullet together.

When I told him the difference he thought that seemed like a lot. I said son that is darn near perfect considering how much body mass/bone/hide that bullet went through. Even solid copper bullets you would hope retain that much weight.

So it sunk in with him I had him hold a 250 XTP out of the box and then hold this bullet right next to it. I said see! Not a lot of difference! If this one wasent so mangled you could probably use it again He sort of laughed and said Yeah I see what you mean. Still plenty of bullet weight left to shoot a deer.

For a cheap bullet it certainly did its job.