Dead is dead. Piss on "killing effect". An arrow kills quite as efficiently and well as a bullet, with proper placement. Of course, if I am in archery range, I almost always use a CNS placement. It just doesn't matter what you use if they go straight down. At longer ranges, one tends to get more spectacular DRT results with fast moving bullets, which also tend to create bigger wound channels respective to other factors.

I very seldom not get an exit wound with whatever caliber and load I am using, from .243 to .338 WM. I guess I'm overshooting shooting those elastic-hide animals?

Or someone is undershootinbg them? Hard to say..... smile

In my opinion, yes, if the bullet is retained, it has expended all it's energy into the animal. If it exits, who is to say it hasn't expended the same amount of energy, plus having enough left over to exit AND LEAVE A BLOOD TRAIL IF NECESSARY.

I'm a believer in blowing a hole to daylight.

The only true cost of having a dog is its death.