Killing an animal and dropping one in its tracks are two differant things. A little story about that: my hunting partner and i were looking accross a small lake at a bull moose, 330yds away, he was standing facing us as he could hear us, partner says wait until he is broad side for the shot, I can kill him with this shot but unlikely he will fall at the shot. So i aimed direstly at the point off his nose directly head on, a 250 Barnes X, out of a 35 whelen, at that range drops about 9 inches at my sight in. The moose folds at the shot. It takes 2hours to get the canoe, send my wife and daughter over to get it so we could pull it across the lake with a rope.This was the only legal moose we saw in a week of hunting. The bullet was found under the skin next to its anus. As usual a well placed heavy bullet works on large game. I would not have made this shot with anything less than the 35.
