Originally Posted by AH64guy
Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Any reservations on shooting through shoulders with the 180 gameking?


Yes - you’ll probably tear up a lot of meat in the process - punch the vitals and be done with it.

It’s really a distance and energy question if you want shoulder penetration - but having hammered a shoulder to stop an elk, I would probably have been better off staying in heart lung area.

I know I would have saved more meat...


This.
Gamekings tear meat up if impact velocity is high. From your 30-06, at modest impacy velocity you may or may not be fine if you hit solid shoulder bone. Put it tight behind the shoulder and that combo will be perfectly adequate.
Put it on the shoulder and you may have a rodeo, depending. You're pretty much guaranteed to have some nasty, tore up meat though.