Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Longest Penetration achieved from an expanding bullet?

hard to tell for me, since I have only recovered two bullets from Alaska moose; the rest have zipped through, no idea of how far. However, not even bone was able to spot the following bullet:

230-grain FS loaded to produce approximately 2,800 fps on my .338WM. The moose was broadside, so I aimed my rifle so that the bullet would hit right behind the shoulder bone, a little low. This bullet broke the near shoulder bone, clipped the arteries right on the heart, hit and broke the far shoulder bone, and exited.

I did recover one FS bullet from the largest moose I have shot so far. This one was used on a quartering-away shot. The FS hit the right frontal ribs on its way to the far shoulder, broke the far shoulder bone, and my hunting partner found it on the hide (far side) when we skinned the moose.

The next recovered bullet was a 250-grain A-Frame, loaded around 2,600 fps (a little slow). This bullet stopped on the far shoulder muscles, but dropped the moose on the spot.