Interesting to see all of these pics as in the 30or 40 deer my buddy and I have claimed over the past 30 years we have recovered two bullets. Both were mine. One was a saboted 45 cal pistol bullet shot out of a muzzle loader that fragmented when it hit bone ( the deer DRT). The second was a 243 100gr.core-loc that was found perfectly mushroomed under the far side hide of a doe shot thru the shoulders at about 200yds (again drt). None of the rest of our bullets have ever been recovered and we have used about all of the medium bore caliber from 24 thru 30 and then some real odd balls like his old 577-450, stc. Actually I'll add we pretty much use regular cup & core bullets or cast in the case of the 577-450. No premium bullets at all.
And that probably says a lot about the difference between deer and deer-sized game and bigger, tougher animals. IME it's more common to recover bullets than not when killing moose.
