Yes!! They ARE DESIGNED to work this way! That front core virtually explodes after the bullet has busted through into the vitals, and just makes a bloody soup out of all the organs in and near its' path! That's why the things are so bloody effective! If you judge a bullet's effectiveness by how closely it resembles the "classic mushroom", rather than by how well it killed what you hit with it, yopu are going to be disappointed!!

I really get a kick out of people who criticize these bullets for working as they are intended to, and also from the turkeys who complain "it just penetrated right on through without expanding"! Which of course is impossible for them to know about a bullet that went on over to the next county after passing through (and killing) an animal!!