I can say that I lost a very nice bull last year shooting a 180gn ttsx out of a 300wm. I cannot say what happened because the bull was not recovered after a fairly long track the blood dried up.
The load and rifle was proven. The 250yd kneeled shot was confirmed as a good hit by my guide. Decent blood and shoulder bone recovered, “should have been just over the next hill”.
Who knows? Maybe it was a very rate bullet failure, maybe me but the bone he lost was crazy. It all happened fast as it often does.
