Due to recoil, 250TTSX in a 375 Ruger.
Anyone else have this happen?

The whole idea of adding a plastic tip is so silly anyway!

We make our own bullets here, and some suggested we do just this.

I vetoed the idea as totally pointless.

Saeed said: "... totally pointless."
Now that is funny!

Maybe there was a bad batch of plastic,
or I just haven't battered my plastic tips enough?
Maybe one should just load those bullets single-shot style and keep them out of the magazine?
Fill the magazine with a tougher-tipped bullet ...

Rip ...

I noticed it checking the effect of recoil on oal for uncrimped bullets in the mag. Imagine that little plastic tip floating around in your action or worse, loose in your barrel in front of a round.
Fired the bullet that was broken. Same poi at 100 yrds.

I got into some old 200 grain Accubonds that had tips that broke off. Some were even broken in the boxes.

Besides not shooting worth a damn, I had a couple that came off and stopped the cartridge from chambering.

They are part of this long range shooting craze but fortunately they are not difficult to remove with pliers or side cutters.

That's a bit shaky considering all the things that could happen as was recounted.

Maybe we should nip off the plastic tips and call them "Protected Points"...or just use Woodleighs to begin with or bullets WITHOUT THAT TIP...or make magazines with shoulders that stop the bullet from moving around...or just quit buying them...find a solution and fix it.

The plastic tips were designed to satisfy those that couldn't stand "battered tips" and thought they somehow caused inaccuracy or were just "ugly"...or whatever. You should see some of the tips from my 356 Win tubular mag after a few thumps and bangs...NONE have shown any accuracy deviations consistent with the tips being battered to ****...maybe in a very accurate rifle but NOT in my Marlin 356 Win levergun.

I would just nip/cut/whatever off those offending things and keep on shooting...especially now that it has been brought to the attention of the few. An Aluminum or brass tip(as was used for many years) would work even better...maybe...I never had any trouble with Win "Silvertips" and/or Rem "Bronze Points"...I still even have a box or two of those in 30 cal back behind all the "latest and greatest" "Modern" bullets.

Good Hunting

Something similar but not quite to the extent your pictures show.
It only happens with .30 cal TTSX I shoot in my 30.06 and .300 Win Mag Tikka rifles which have exactly the same mag configuration and bolt size.
I chamber and fire the first round from the plastic mag and with recoil the plastic tip on the round underneath seems to slam into the front edge of the mag which takes out a small chip. After shooting several rounds I end up with a few blue chips outside the chamber. Other than pissing me off it has not affected accuracy ( out to 400 yds ) or reduced effectiveness in killing game that I can tell. It doesn't happen in my Blaser, the mag in which has an absorbent rubber strip attached to the inside front side to negate damage from recoil movement.
I love the Barnes TTSX bullets but adhesion of the tips to the bullet body sometimes seems variable. I have a batch of 180 gn TTSX .30 cal with tips that aren't pushed completely into the nose cavity. Before loading I have been pushing the tip in hard on each bullet to make it right.