Re meat damage. I shot a nice size cow elk the other day at under 100 yards with a 180 gr TTSX going 3400fps. There was a fair amount of bloodshot; comparable with a lead and copper bullet, but the blood cleaned up just fine. And a minimal amount of meat was lost. Bullet entered into the meat of the onside shoulder and broke the off side shoulder on exit. Cow ran for 25 yards with no blood, then after that Ray Charles could have tracked her the remaining 25 yards.
