.223 for bear, mountain goat, deer, elk, and moose.

[omicron1792]

Yea that happens. Id expect inconsistency from small frangible bullets but it seems like the plastic tips do a lot to improve that. I havent seen every picture in this thread but it doesnt look like anyone gets penciling from TMK or ELD

That’s monos my man

 

[Choupique]

That’s monos my man

I thought that was the chief issue with regular hollow point match bullets?

 

[LimeSpoon]

I thought that was the chief issue with regular hollow point match bullets?

Yes, it is.

It’s the difference between yaw-initiated fragmentation (standard OTMs) and hydraulic expansion. TMKs expand largely in the same manner as any other hollowpoint.

The tip has less to do with it than the greatly enlarged hollowpoint cavity under the tip.

There’s still variation in the consistency of different kinds of expanding bullets, but with rifle rounds at high velocities, expansion is almost universally a more reliable upset mechanism than yaw.