If a bullet will penetrate a from back to front it should penetrate an Elk from the side. I don’t get pencil holes because I put them through bone when possible. I don’t like to track. I have put a TTSX (I forgot to say I have used both the TSX and TTSX above) through two pigs that were nice enough to line up side by side. Expansion is useless without penetration
Eldm's penetrate just fine. Elk scapulas are not made of magic impenetrable substances, it's a thin bone.
By all means, keep shooting whatever magic bullet you want.
