30.06 Favorite bullets and loads???

[Rocky Raab]

blktail, while that's still a tiny sample, your story points up what has long been a misconception about Partitions.

Just because there's a small exit wound, it does NOT mean the bullet failed to expand.

Instead, that's how a Partition often works, especially on a big, thick animal - or when fired from a magnum rifle. The bullet will get inside, expand completely and create massive damage. But as it continues to penetrate, the front core of the bullet will get "wiped" off and the jacket will peel back against that solid rear section. When it exits, it no longer has a large frontal diameter - but it exits a dead animal.

The Barnes acts a lot like that, except that it doesn't have a core to "wipe" off. It expands into a mini-broadhead, slices its way through and out of the animal, which promptly falls over dead.