I think "Wallop" is a thing

[doc holiday13]

Why not compare similar bullets?

Thats highly doable.

Most of the modern bullets everyone espouses are similar in concept to the Nosler partition. The partition is an exposed lead nose bullet with a thin frontal jacket and a lead base locked into a thicker copper jacket. The ELDX is probably the most similar to this design. Thicker rear coper jacket with a lock ring holding in the lead and thin front jacket designed to crumble and expand. The ballistic tip assist with that. The exposed lead nose bullets will still work very well, but its been awhile since i've shot any. I'd want to compare accuracy with a modernized bullet. The lead nose bullets do loose their velocity VERY fast comparitively though so that would be why they loose some favor. If you're an east coaster with a max 300 yards for a shot, then that might be a solid reason to not change bullets to sleek high BC bullets. The biggest objective is to put all the bullet energy into creating tissue damage(big wound channel)

Some bullets seem to do this a little too well. SMK comes to mind. Those jackets are thin thin thin. I've found some of the jacket peeled off at the point of entry

 

[rookieforever33]

Shoot a deer with a 12 gauge slug. You will believe wallup is real. On both ends of the gun.

 

[Harvey_NW]

Shoot a deer with a 13 gauge slug. You will believe wallup is real. On both ends of the gun.

I doubt anyone would debate that it's not real, the question is where is the point of diminishing return?

If a 223/6/6.5 with a good bullet and adequate impact velocities can reliably produce a wound channel that kills big game animals quickly and effectively, what do you gain by trying to kill it more deader and likely damaging more meat from a larger cartridge that produces more recoil and is harder to shoot?

 

[Pilsner]

Shoot a deer with a 12 gauge slug. You will believe wallup is real. On both ends of the gun.

The furthest I've ever seen a deer run after taking a vital zone hit was with a 12 ga foster slug. I grew up in Indiana when we got tons of doe tags and have taken or seen taken literally hundreds of deer with slugs as they were the only legal option until less than a decade ago. Slugs and a 12 gauge are not the kiss of death on deer. They did my shoulder no good though.

 

[rookieforever33]

I didnt say it killed deer faster. Just stated you can see the wallop in action. Ive also seen a coyote get blown over sideways from a 12 gauge slug. Then get up and run 20 yards before dying. When I shoot coyotes with my 223 they spin around wildly, then run about the same before dying. Wallop in action.