I took a pelvis shot to anchor a Bull I had already liver shot with a .450 Marlin. The meat damage was bad. The worst the butcher saw that year.
I busted a pelvis up (unintentionally) when a second shot was needed and the young bull was trotting away at a sharp angle. The 225 XFB caught him in the hip and broke the pelvis into numerous chunks. The worst part of the job was trying to find the pieces of bone since none of the meat had telltale blood-shot to indicate wreckage. Perhaps the worst mess I've seen in a moose involved a 165 cup and core hitting a big bone in the shoulder. Much of that leg was bloodshot. Soft bullets and big bone combos are the problem. I would rarely choose a pelvis shot, but if the question is putting the animal down, it is a viable answer. It is a much more reliable "dropper" than the shoulder shots are. The latter- when they include lungs- are 100% lethal however.
