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... and the barnes X bullets is not going to fix your problems. I had a client last year with a 300 RUM and barnesX bullets 180 grain at 3200 fps on maybe only the eland out of the 8 animals he shot did the bullet open up on the rest of the animals the bullets folded in not opening up.

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Not an uncommon performance for that bullet at all, and was my observation of it as well. What cracks me up is that when such results are reported about X's, they're treated as rare, freak occurrances or written off as BS (the apologists virtually always claim that it must have been a squib load)...but when there's a minor problem with a true premium bullet, like the A Frame or Weldcore, it's considered proof that only mono-metals are reliable. What a joke. A good friend hunted elephant and plains game earlier this year with Chris Collins, a well-known, older Botswana PH. When he asked Chris what bullets to bring, he got only a single specific recommendation: "Please don't bring Barnes."

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