1.
I've enjoyed using Hornady rifle bullets, in various calibers, for almost 50 years of hand loading now (including success with the DGX, on the only African buffalo I have shot).
2.
The DGX and DGS are the absolute perfect shape / profile for the type of animals and hunting conditions they were designed for.
They profile very similarly to the current trend in shapes of many small coffee thermoses available these days - simply the perfect shape, aka; "profile" for DG bullets in both soft or solid, IMO.
3.
Making the jacket of malleable steel, plated over with softer metal to avoid damaging rifle bores (especially important with super expensive English doubles) was a **fairly good plan.
The original Rigby bullets that made at least 3 early smokeless, Pre WW-I African cartridges famous for their reliability, were similarly constructed (calibers .350, .416 and .450 NE).
In other words, mild steel jacket / lead core / blunt shape / parallel sides).
4.
Nonetheless, I have always believed that, **Hornady should've bonded the DGX core to its jacket.
(Also, it would have been good for Hornady to stop making the DGX jacket thinner toward the nose, rather instead drawing their jackets the same thickness, from base to nose - oh well, maybe next time).
5.
The last thought here is partly for humor sake but with an element of truth:
IMO, If Swift were to make their A-Frame line of bullets available with the "coffee thermos profile", Hornady's newest bonded core DGX bullets would not sell well.
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