On a quartering away shot the 140gr VLD knocked a bull right off his feet. My spotter uttered something unprintable followed by, "He's back up". After a several hour rodeo I killed him with a VLD on another quartering away shot (a little less angled/more broadside). After removing the hide we found a large bruise where the first bullet had skipped off the ribs.
Some people may not believe a bullet will skip off an animal but I had a 140gr accubond do just that when launched from a .280. The shot was less than six feet on a wounded whitetail and it knocked a palm sized chunk of hair off the shoulder. Luckily the deer just rolled over and made a gasping noise and died. I had wounded him earlier that day and had been chasing him for about 4 hours.
