I will say with non-tipped cup and core like speer hc, hornady il, sierra ph have take a lot deer sized game at close range with 270, 280, 243 100-140 gr bullets. Always worked great and normally full penetration on deer including mule deer and northern whitetails. On bigger pigs normally do not exit but still penetrate plenty even on shoulder and raking shots. These all going between 29-3100 fps. Tipped bullets like btips/sst are a bit more explosive in this velocity range and I have migrated to bonded versions for the poly-tipped version but lower velocity would help
