Yeah, they can be just as accurate. Yeah, if, and only if, the range cannot exceed say 100 yards so that optical effects cannot possible turn that into a lot more things can work OK. But it is not the least uncommon for heavy RN bullets to go through lungs and leave enough lung intact for a deer to go a hell of a ways. I have seen literally a couple hundred deer killed with heavy RN bullets out of 30-30s, 30-06s 32 Specials, 35 Remingtons, 30-40 Krags, and the rest of the common 50s/60s rounds. I was one of the youngest of the deer hunters then, and got to be "dog" when they needed chasing down.

Thanks, but I will take speed and shredded lungs every time. They might start inside 100 yards, but dragging one out of a couple hundred yards of grass swamp or more will make a person a believer in faster dead is better dead.