Wonder if any of you read that story in Rifle or Handloader where the Berger team went to NZ to hunt stag ? They killed them, bullets went in a few inches and exploded like a varmint bullet on a woodchuck.
In hole was one caliber and closed, there was no exit hole. Had a gust of wind drifted that bullet on to a stout bone, there would have been a lost animal.
You seem to have forgotten the part of that article where John Barsness recounts deliberately shooting big feral goats through the shoulder, trying to make the Berger VLD bullets blow up. The bullets all penetrated the shoulder
before expanding.
This thread is about deer, we're not extrapolating to elk or eland.
