I'm new to this site and I'm the hunter in vlywaterman's photo. I'll be complete honest with everyone at first when I heard the idea of using copper bullets I was like yeah ok I've used lead my whole life why try copper. Then I did research on copper and said what the hell I'll try them. Well the results were shocking. Much more accurate and consistent then lead now that's just on paper. Then I did my own test with a 1/4" steel plate rested on a 2x4 set horizontal. I shot the copper round first it blew through the plate and the 4" of wood and kept going. I shot it again with a lead core bullet the copper jacket stuck almost perfect in the steel plate and the lead that came out of it hardly left a mark on the wood. So when I shot my boar I went up to it and look at the entry and the exit hole and at first I did not think the bullet expanded at all until we skinned that boar, the Barnes tsx bullet left a massive exit hole like they said it would. But the main part of the bullet kept in one piece and if there was another boar behind the one I dropped in it's tracks there would have been another. Trust me I'm not for banning lead ammo at all but if there's a much better bullet with more knockdown power then lead your damn right I'm going to use it.... To me lead bullets are a thing of the past and to be honest with everyone lead bullets are junk compared to copper. When a bullet fragments like lead you loose a lot of energy, where a copper stays together it retains it's energy. The U.S military are even switching to copper bullets what more can I say
