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The heading photo in this category shows the South African manufactured 30-06 Sprg. PMP African Elite 180 gr ammunition topped by the US made Swift A-Frame bullet. Since its inception it has been a winning combination on any big game including eland.
Here are some photos of sectioned A-Frame bullets:
This is what the complicated Winchester Fail Safe should have been. A bonded lead core front and rear instead of the compilation of loose inserts the Winchester bullet designers had decided on.
(see the post about hunting in Africa with Winchester Supreme Fail Safe and Ballistic Silvertip bullets from a 30-06 in the Actual Bullet Behaviour Category).
400gr. Peregrine VRG-3 from a .416 Rigby that broke both shoulders of a Cape buffalo and demolished the heart.
I am just today new to this forum and have been reading the different sections. Just found the forum on Preimium Bullets. I understand the desire for controled expansion to reduce meat loss. I am not in total agreement for keeping bullet expansion to 1 1/2 times bullet diameter. The Nosler partition that I praised above does expand more than that perameter. I personaly have not had consistant issues with the Nosler seperating the lead front core from the bullets jacket as was indicated in the other forum. It Has infrequently happened, twice that I can think of. My personal experience has been lead loss, but at about 50-60 percent of the front lead core, with that core welded to the curls of the front of the jacket as it curled back to the center partition. I have recovered and in my possesion about 4 such bullets. I don't keep all the bullets I recover and I don't recover all my bullets. I understand the use of the Heart/Lung bullet placement, but I personaly place my shots into the neck/spine just above the shoulder. I loose some meat from the neck but everything else is intact and I never have to track down an animal. What I'm saying is that if the Nosler bullet will hold together when hitting the neck bones on an animal like an Elk or Moose and mushroom and retain close to 80% of overall weight it is doing something right. That has been my experience overwhelmingly with the Nosler Partition on soft skin nondangerous game.
The concept of a seperating core was to inflict alternative damage to the animal to insure a kill. A lot of hunters are poorly skilled in handling firearms and larger wound chanels and the aformentioned extra wound chanels were meant to augment poorer placement of the shots and a possible blood trail to track a poorly shot animal. This may not be acceptable criteria for a skilled hunter/marksman, but truely how many people fall into that catagory. My experience has been far fewer than people would like a person to believe. I grew up in Michigan in the US midwest and the common hunter was termed the Weekend warrior. They lived in or near the major cities and shot their firearms just before season opening and hunted the first weekend of open hunting season and then went home. If they shot an animal it was more shear luck than any type of hunting skill. The fire arms industry was and is well aware of this trend and manufactures components for that situation. It's a sad statement but true.
This forum is a good choice for educating people on better performance criteria and could help lift those with determination to improve do so.