I'm surprised the "hunting vs. shooting" storm hasn't formed here. It still might though.
I have the info on my loads to the range I would try under ideal conditions and favorable circumstances; in other words for me it would vary and be fluid according to wind, rest, animal - alert or calm, its position. When I was younger I will admit that I would have included time to hunt also but I no longer allow that as part of the criteria.
The thing I would most want to avoid, recovery or not, is a wounded, suffering animal due to a first bad hit.
