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Bullet Failure?

For me I have found that coppers have been more problematic. Those federal trophy tipped ones seem to be the best of both worlds combined into a single projectile. Not cheap though, but very good.
 
Was this a bullet failure or something that just happens? The majority of my hunting has been done with a straight-wall rifle so I don’t have a lot of experience with recovering actual rifle bullets - just shooting them.

This is a Hammer Hunter 143 grain bullet shot out of a .280 AI that hit a cow moose at the base of the ribs. She quartering slightly away and I recovered at the hide on her other side. 85 yards. Chrono’d these rounds at an average of 2995 FPS.

Any input would be great - I’d hate to have to pull the rest of the bullets that I have.
Maybe I missed it somewhere in the thread, but what did the wound channel look like?
 
Maybe I missed it somewhere in the thread, but what did the wound channel look like?
To be honest I was so excited to have taken a moose that I didn’t inspect it until I found the bullet, and by that time we had it quartered out.
 

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