Prior to retirement I legally culled deer on large plantations down this way. 99% if not 99.9% were does. I won’t mention numbers here but I took deer with every caliber from 222 up to 300 RUM with virtually every bullet made.
Our bullets made now are all very good. Hit a deer well and they all go down...period. I was required to keep records on caliber, bullet, range to target, etc, including notes on reaction to the shot (DRT, ran 50 yards, etc). Noslers all worked very well with exactly one failure. Sierras were fine as were Hornady’s and Speer. Barnes TSX’s and TTSX’s worked fine but occasionally you had cases where the deer ran very long distances before being recovered. Corelokt bullets worked amazingly well. Swift Sciroccos were iffy in their first iteration. Inconsistent at best. Scirocco II showed much better results. VLD’s worked better with heavy for caliber bullets. Just my observations from real world situations.
