Deer season over, with a lot of firsts! (long read)

[CarJunkieLS1]

Oh my I don't how what I would have done if I had heard a bear sitting in pitch black. I probably would have had a "code brown" as hearing that deer blow at me was startling enough.

 

[theleo]

I'm definitely not (repeat, NOT) a bullet expert!

But the one hog I shot using an AR-15 was with a Nosler Partition bullet, which I recovered.

That bullet (which weighed only 60 grains) had a somewhat small lead portion, which separated from the rest of the bullet. However, I felt the bullet, in that case at least, had performed well.

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I'm not sure how relevant this is, but the fact that the bullet separated didn't bother me. Maybe it should have, but at present I'm too ignorant to understand why. Not being smart-@$$, probably just showing my lack of knowledge regarding bullets.

The concept behind the partition is in a worse case scenario you push it fast enough to blow the nose off you still have a chunk of lead behind the copper partition to give the projectile enough momentum to keep penetrating. What you have in your photo is a worst case scenario with a Partition. Worst case scenario with cup and core bullets (in regards to penetration) is the bullet comes apart and you get copper ribbon (my 243 normally does this). In deer you don't need to much penetration to get both lungs and when the bullet does that the animal takes every bit of energy the bullet has. Your hog took all the energy your bullet had as well, but with that bullet you were garuanted to get good penetration through the vitals of your hog. The OP's bullet had no lead left inside the copper jacket, as is common with the bullet he used.