I'm not all that concerned about penetration but if penetration is the goal, the Lehigh bullets are hard to beat. That's my experience on 350+lb feral hogs. The Lehigh will zing right on thru a hog that size. Obviously we don't have grizzly bears here and if you need a vacation at taxpayer expense, just shoot and show off a black bear which we do have. One thing I have a question about though. In shooting the Underwood Hi-Tek coated bullets, the coating came off of the recovered bullets. I wonder where along the bullet flight that the coating separated? My initial impression would be at point of bullet contact but that might not be accurate. I shoot a coated bullet but loaded to plinker level, not nuclear. Sad to say I've never attempted to recover any of these mostly due to the gravel berm I plink at. Anybody use a coated bullet on an animal and recovered the coating separated from the bullet? Where along the bullets path did you find it?
FWIW, the Underwood hard cast bullets penetrate significantly deeper than their Lehigh offerings in every medium tested, aside from ballistic armor. And at a fraction of the cost...
I'm not so up on Hi-Tek coatings. But gotta think it properly applied they aughta be as tough as powder coat?!?!
My powder coat routinely survives a trip thru my barrel target and sand dirt back stop. OR my buddies bullet box filled with wet magazines newspapers or phone books what ever he finds.
Most of the powder coat remains. It's really tough stuff
I have pics but no way to post
CW