Gotcha.
I mostly hunt open country so if a critter goes a little ways after being hit it's not a big deal. Really easy to find 'em if they go less than a hundred yards.
I have the exact opposite with my deer hunting anyways, and so have put a premium of quick killin' and an exit. My biggest- horned buck, I shot him well with a 7mm-08 and he went a couple hundred yards in the rain... no blood trail I ever found... dusk coming on... not a good feeling. I got really lucky and found him- if he'd gone another 2 feet on his "death dive" into some small xmas trees, I'd have never found him.
So, as I've tried to explain before on this forum, for some types of hunting a bullet that spins off some fragments, does plenty of damage consistantly, and still penetrates trumps a bullet that ONLY penetrates. For me. Not trying to tell anyone else what to do.
