For years all I’ve read is for dangerous game like grizzly bear to use hard cast for reliable penetration. Well I tried hard cast last year on deer as most of you know two out of three deer ran over 100 yards with double lung shots. My hard cast boolit never expanded(but did cause a lot of internal damage from shattered ribs) and exited in a boolit size exit hole. If I were to use the jacketed bullet that would’ve been really fragile and came apart like a ballistic tip dumping most to all of its energy inside the animal IMO it would’ve not left its tracks or would’ve went ALOT less further with a soft fragile bullet/boolit. This leads me to scratching my head why I would want to use hard cast for dangerous game if I ever had to do so. I would assume if you use hard cast for this purpose you definitely need to shoot the Head, neck, or backbone to break a bone to drop the animal. I’m positive a hard cast boolit would do just fine on a head shot but what if you missed as a bear that was charging head on and your boolit entered between the neck and shoulder? Imo a bullet that would come apart to expand and dump its energy inside (like the front end of a partition) would do a lot better and dispatching quicker. Not trying to start a fight I love my cast boolits but just wanted to hear opinions. I’m guessing shot placement is key and the projectile comes second in this scenario. I know if I would’ve shot my dear in the head or the neck it would’ve dropped on the spot I decided to double lung them to see what would happen which was not the best outcome for my 15.4 BH alloy choice. It probably would’ve been a better alloy to shoot a bear in the head with.