Kachok
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Looking at a few reports from hunters it seems to me that the new Deep Curl has very similar weight retention properties as the legendary Nosler Partition, around 80-90% at close ranged standard rifle speeds and around 65-75% on close ranged shots with magnum rifles. Mind you this is a very small sampling since people don't normally recover either one of those bullets given the very deep penetration. Since Noslers have shot up in price recently, and the Deep Curl has performed so remarkably well for me at the range I was thinking of giving them a try in the woods. I know weight retention is only part of the equation, but do you guys think a value bullet could hang with a legend? If not why?
While weight retention is almost identical one visibly different with the Deep Curl is it's tendency to turn (mostly) inside out at very high impact speeds, but it still retains it's weight despite it's extensive deformation. Partitions make a more uniform mushroom at a wide range of impact speeds, though push them fast enough and they can shed their front core, but they still perform great even in that rare worse case scenario.
While weight retention is almost identical one visibly different with the Deep Curl is it's tendency to turn (mostly) inside out at very high impact speeds, but it still retains it's weight despite it's extensive deformation. Partitions make a more uniform mushroom at a wide range of impact speeds, though push them fast enough and they can shed their front core, but they still perform great even in that rare worse case scenario.