Moon Dog

In case you haven't figured it out yet, the secret to virality on here is: Claim authority Be dumb

You could shoot 100 human necks with 100 of the most perfectly manufactured identical 30-06 rounds and get 100 different results. Bullets do weird shit. Your favorite "expert" being unable to recreate what happened is not proof that it didn't happen. Sorry but it's not.

Here's a cutaway of a standard soft point projectile. As you can see the copper jacket is extremely thin, around 0.020" or roughly 33% thinner than a credit card. Under that, you have lead. One of the reasons you need the copper jacket is because lead is so soft it wouldn't survive the muzzle velocity or twist rate of modern rifles if left completely bare. With a soft point the tip is left unjacketed so as to intentionally cause the bullet to deform. The lead gets squeezed inside the copper jacket causing it to split and peel open like a banana. This occurs whether your hitting soft tissue or a solid object, albiet to a different degree and with different effects. Copper and lead are, generally speaking, softer than human bones. When a soft point bullet (or a projectile of any type, really) hits bone you have absolutely no way to predict the outcome with any degree of certainty. Why do people have this weird idea that military guys are experts on ammunition? I've lost count of the number of military, police, and SWAT guys I've educated at various training classes and events out of the dumbest fuddlore you can possibly imagine. It's like saying a racecar driver automatically knows everything about all types of engines. It's just not remotely true at all, lol.