I had the same accuracy experiences starting back when Partitions were THE elk bullet to use - Ballistic Tips are/were tough to walk away from due to the accuracy but a lost elk made me a hard won believer - I know it's controversial but the studies are difficult to ignore, for me anyway, about lead ingestion and what it does to the human system - BT's, SST, Bergers in particular, all these "killer" bullets that leave lead fragments simply cannot be ignored, hype or not - I now use monolithics for my first accuracy attempts, if "no go" I move to bonded core and between those choices fragmenting types are not a consideration at all for me nor have I any inaccurate rifles in the safe, but we eat a lot of game meat and some people don't think a little lead will hurt anything, I do ...