There has been a lot of discussion lately regarding bullet performance with several calibers but especially the .204. Light bullets, heavy bullets, slow and fast bullets. Experiences vary considerably. I don’t consider myself an expert worthy of telling anyone else what to or not do. I started hunting coyotes more than 50 years ago while living and working in the Mamouth Lakes area of California. I used an old Winchester 43 in .218 Bee, given to me by an old Nevada sheep herder. I used nothing but factory Winchester 46 gr hollow points. Most of my shooting was driving between Crowley Lake and Mamouth Mt. Inn, road shooting coming and going from work. Shot a lot of them. Distance not great, may 150 at most with most closer to 100. Young, in good shape, just out of the Marines, never shot less than expert, so at these ranges I never missed a single one, never needed a follow up shot, always died within a few steps. Fast forward, the newer hot rods have extended the distance greatly but that high velocity changes the rule considerably. Once read a very in depth article by Barns describing the development of the Barns X, he said they had no trouble until they started going over 3200 fps then the physics totally changed and nothing worked the same. He described it like this. If you stood at the edge of a swimming pool and just tipped yourself in at the deep end, you would probably go all the way to the bottom with no harm done. Now go up in a plane to 30,000 feet and dive into the same pool. He said you would not go more than about 2 feet into the water and break every bone in you body. Same projectile, same medium, only difference is velocity. Same with bullets, increase velocity and physics changes. What works slow does not always work the same fast and vise versa. Bullet manufactures have done an incredible job in trying to get the two together but so far nobody has that perfect bullet that works under call conditions. What am I getting at? Let’s kerp exchanging experiences, but understand, what works for me may not work for you, I will respect your experience but maybe totally disagree based on my experience, you do your thing and I will do mine