Hide or bone wouldn't have been consistent. In these tests, all the bullets saw the same.... Some failed, some worked. Failed bullets failed the same test that successful bullets passed. Remarkably, the bullets tested in this fashion, performed the same on animals as they did in the testing, whenever a comparison could be made.
Exactly!!!
i used to criticize these tests.
Now i sincerely believe they are as real world as one can get outside of tied up live animals all shot at exactly the same angle and the same place.
The best hunter i know takes a couple elk, an antelope or two, several deer and a bunch of wild hogs every year. He uses the two sixty five grain .430 Hornady flat point bullet.