One of the benefits of being able to shoot a lot of deer during the summer, and not having to worry about ultimately trivial things like "meat damage" I can say this.. I've shot a [bleep] load of deer with NBTs from things like the 7-08, 270 and 30-06. From distances of really close up to just shy of 400 yards. Not one time have I failed to find a deer that was hit. Not once did I recover a bullet. Even a frontal from 270 yards( that bullet traversed from breast bow to stern and exited just in front of the hip. In fact. I haven't noticed much difference between NBT hunting bullets and accubonds from my 7 mag.
