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ORIGINAL: AZBear

Chap Gleason

The bullet was a T/C Shockwave Bonded (Blue tip), I think the standard Shockwave is not a bonded bullet and has a yellow tip. I lost 2 petals off the bullet and the petals are not thick like the Barnes bullets. The inside of the bullethas a lead core and is bonded like a partition.The bullet initially hit a rib on impact and may account for the lost petals since the entryhole was very large, much larger than the bullet pictured. I guess the impact caused the rib to explode and enlarge the hole. I had a piece of rib cut the stomach and that was not too bad.

PS. To answer your question on the HornadySST I guess it is about the same since I belive Hornady make the bulletsfor T/C.

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