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I hear you... for the umpteenth time...the shot was STRAIGHT ON. Straight on. It was 90 degrees, oblique, square, straight on. No angles, nothing extreme, nothing unique. Just a pure 90 degree pure natural broad side, bedded shot. This is why I posted this whole story. No angles at all. I have...

My bad, sorry I missed this earlier...it was from recent production line.. Cheers

Here is the buck...

I appreciate and agree with your last paragraph...I am also guilty as charged. I have a fortune in bullets to reload of various designs; new and hype and good old fashioned reliable classics. I've only had two times where the bullet grenaded this badly. The other time the animal only went ten...

Thanks everyone for the replies. Yes I'm certainly not here to try and speak in negative tongues about the BT, its just that I have made these shots before with different bullets without such disastrous outcomes. Previous comment about possibly quartering away...it was a direct, oblique, 90...

Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it. I certainly learned that on this last deer. I actually had intended all along to use my Partition loads, but the BT's were so much more accurate and I ran out of time to get to the range for further load development on the Partitions, so I just ran with...

Yes that is correct...the small fragments stayed on course straight into the lungs and the mass of the bullet did a ninety degree hard right after disintegrating the left shoulder in its entirety.

Hi all, A couple of weeks ago I did some reasearch here because I was having much better accuracy with the 95 grain BT's than my 85 grain Partitions, in my .243. Having only used the partition in a hunting environment and not the BT other than at targets, I seeked advice from others...many here...