There's more, but these are all basic, classic chest shots where a bullet was recovered. There have been others where complete pass throughs have resulted including several with the '06, and plain old cup and cores even. Smaller calibers work; they just don't work as well as universally as bigger stuff seems to. On a chest shot on moose - and probably in general, a bigger hole in at least one side along with a hole either in the diaphragm or other side of the chest cavity seem to collapse the lungs better than smaller holes which will drain the animals blood until it suffocates or drowns. It really doesn't matter (for killing) whether the animal bleeds out if the lungs can't inflate.


Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.