A different bullet but I shot a deer one time with a Nosler
ballistic tip (120) with a 7mm08 and he left no blood trail until right before he fell for good. He was about 130 yards standing in a food plot and at the shot ran in the open for over 100 yards with plain tracks to follow. I followed those tracks looking for blood to determine how bad he was hit and there was no blood until after he went in the woods and about 20 yards into the woods there was a speck of blood and the deer was less that 15 yards from that first speck. The bullet went through the lungs and was against the skin on the far side making a bulge but not breaking the skin and no blood until it came out his nose. I suppose a piece of fat or something plugged up the entrance hole but do not know for sure. The bullet had expanded and done a lot of internal damage but no blood for a long ways and the deer laying close to the first blood. Shooting deer and you will see some things that are hard to explain some times and I think bear will be the same or maybe worse. miles
