Marrkai,

Your spot on my man, and the Woodleigh is as good a bullet that has ever been manufactured, as good as any partition, and those that condem them simply have not used them, plain and simple....

The bonding method is fool proof as far as I can tell and I have shot a bunch of Buffalo, Bison and elk with them not to mention a dozen or so Eland, and various plainsgame..

Some years back in Man Magnum magazine, a particular batch of Woodleighs got on the market and caused about a half a dozen problems, all kills but less than perfect results, a case of faulty copper, that can happen to anyone and has happened to Nosler in the past.. Can't be prevented...I contributed to that Man Magnum ariticle btw...

I recall a post wherein the shooter claimed bullet failure because his bullet smashed the spine of a Buffalo and wadded up in a huge ball, and stopped on the off side skin..thats not failure and it killed the bull instantly..The spine of a Buffalo and Eland will make a mess out of all bullets if it gets enough of the spine, some come apart and some wad up terribly but hold together and that is good performance when the wad up but hold together...One needs to know what bullet failure is....I have a box of recovered Woodleighs from Buffalo and have posted them on these boards, they expand greatly but they hold together and theys kill extremely well...

All companies have bad batches of bullets, few admit it but they sure do...I have had failures with Swift on one ocassion, with Hawk every time I use them with modern calibers, not with old Win. calibers...I have seen two Noslers fail and checked the box and they had cracks in the jackets...Witnessed a tungston speer solid break in half on a buffalo..it happens.

In my 416 I use Woodleighs 450 gr. PP bullet and the Nosler 400 gr. bullets with excellent results and I get two holes most of the time...Use them for hunting bachlor bulls.

If I herd hunt then I will use Northfork or Woodleigh RN and stop the bullet on the off side skin...

Or at least thats the plan....