The only big game I ever shot with that Nosler was a medium-sized Iowa whitetail buck, the bullet starting at about 1900 fps from a Winchester 20-gauge sabot factory load, from the rifled barrel on a T/C Contender carbine. At 40-some yards the bullet went through the bones of both shoulders and exited. Your field test certainly indicates it can take even more velocity.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
