Llama Bob
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Best brush round sure deserves it's own thread, but I don't agree with your reasoning. We are talking restantice to deflection here, not sheer penetration. If that was the case a 220 gr soild out of a .300 WBY. would be ultimate thick cover gun.
For many, many years a round nose bullet was considered much better at bush busting than a spitzer, regardless of which would penetrate the most oak.
Right or wrong, I don't know, and we may never know because it's impossible to attempt a test where 2 shots hit bush exactly the same way.
I suspect a large flat meplat with hard, sharp corners does better than either a round nose or spitzer. But I agree that it's a very hard thing to test.
And I'm pretty sure that a 220gr copper over steel over lead "solid" .308 out of a big magnum won't even be a contender in terms of serious penetration. Too easy to deflect, too prone to deformation and no sharp corner on the meplat.