I like heavy for caliber bullets. I used the Hornady 220 RNs in a 30-06 and 300 H&H to take a few (4 or 5) whitetail and mule deer does and the performance was good. I never recovered a bullet and all were heart/lung shots, some quartered away and some broadside, one running at 20 yards. The bullets all made 1-1.5 inch exit wounds with minimal meat damage. While none were drop on the spot shots, none of them went more than 50 yards.
I loaned my 300 H&H to a friend to take a small caribou meat bull using a 220 grain Partition. That was a nearly straight on shot with the bullet entering the front of the chest between the right shoulder and the center of the chest high enough to clip the spine and exiting the left flank. Similar performance. A 1.5 inch exit wound with little meat damage.
