FA PREACHED THAT BULLETS HAD TO BE HARD AND/OR HEAVY JACKETED TO WITHSTAND THE 454's PRESSURES AS THE BULLET JUMPED FROM CYLINDER INTO THE BARREL THROAT, THAT IS WHY THEY MADE THEM HARD, NOT NECESSARILY FOR TERMINAL PERFORMANCE PURPOSES. I DO NOT BELIEVE THEY WERE INTENDED TO EXPAND BUT THEY COULD DEFORM SOME, OR WORSE, BREAK UP. YEARS AGO I GOT SOME OF THE EARLY SWIFT 300gr .452 A-FRAME BULLETS BUT SEEMED TO HAVE PRESSURE PROBLEMS WITH THEM IN FULL HOUSE LOADS. LATER, SWIFT HARDENED THE LEAD CORE IN THOSE BULLETS. I QUIT USING THE OLDER ONES, AND HAVE NOT TRIED THE NEWER HARDER CORE ONES, AS I BASICALLY DECIDED THAT BULLET INTEGRITY WAS THE WAY TO GO, e.g. CORBON PENETRATORS, THEN THE PUNCH BULLET, THEN THE BARNES BUSTER, AND SOME OTHERS THAT I HAVE NOT TRIED. WHAT MAY USUALLY WORK ON WHITETAILS AND FERAL HOGS MAY NOT NECESSARILY WORK ON THE BIG STUFF, BUT WHAT WORKS ON THE BIG STUFF SHOULD USUALLY WORK ON WHITETAILS. etc., ESPECIALLY WITH SHOULDER SHOTS.

SINCE FOR A LONG TIME I WAS A FREQUENT VISITOR TO AFRICA, AND HUNTING BIG AND DANGEROUS GAME, I DECIDED ON BULLET INTEGRITY AND SHOULDER SHOTS (AS ZEE WOULD SAY: PUT 'EM IN STRUCTURE) AND TRAINED AND TRAINED TO INSTINCTIVELY COME UP THE FRONT LEG AND TRY TO DEAD CENTER THE SHOULDER. THIS HAS SERVED ME WELL FOR MANY YEARS AND I THINK I WILL STICK WITH IT.