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I don't think that cup/core separation is automatically bad, or means failure. Sometimes you find the skin(cup) of the bullet that remained in the animal, but the core has passed through. Bullets that aren't bonded sometimes do this. Majority of the time they still hold together and push on through. I've killed a ton of deer with a number of different cup/core type bullets over a wide range of CF rifles, and in my ML's. I have found a few casings - usually under the offside skin, but most have passed through and worked perfectly. I've even found some complete bullets (cup/core), mushroomed perfectly but managed to remain in the deer. Regardless of the bullet and whether it held together or separated, most all had nice wound channels that resulted in quick clean kill.
Where my concern's lie with bullets: 1) if the bullet explodes upon impact, that's a big problem or 2) if the bullet pencils through with no expansion. Just because you occasionally get separation and the casing doesn't pass all the way through (on a non bonded bullet), doesn't mean it didn't work or is a bad bullet. It just happens sometimes. My .02 fwiw
Where my concern's lie with bullets: 1) if the bullet explodes upon impact, that's a big problem or 2) if the bullet pencils through with no expansion. Just because you occasionally get separation and the casing doesn't pass all the way through (on a non bonded bullet), doesn't mean it didn't work or is a bad bullet. It just happens sometimes. My .02 fwiw