If you reload you can easily make it work. I've used the 55 Nosler ballistic tip and the 58 Hornady vmax with H4895 loaded to 3600 fps* and they will not exit a coon size varmint if shot broadside through the ribs. If you hit big bone it will probably be different. Any of the light bullets work if you reduce the velocity enough.
FMJ might be the key if you want taxidermy quality specimens though.
*I went back to look at my reload notes and the velocity was 3600 fps.
Last edited by ruffcutt; 08/02/14.
