Been Living in Alaska most my life. I started hunting with a handgun in the late 80,s and have been lucky enough to take Bear, Moose and Caribou with the 44-454-475L.
Started with 44mag factory soft points and had ok results on caribou when hit in the ribs but had my first bullet failure with a front quartering shot the bullet cup and core came completely apart.as I stated Reloading I went with the 300ga XTP mag in my 454 and had better luck until I pushed the bullet past 1500fps and then had the same results as the soft point 44,s. After reading books and some postings on the web by Max I started down the road of Hard Cast bullets. have not been able to recover a bullet so far to see how the bullet survived but all animals hit made it to the freezer.